I have always been a huge lover of pretty stationery and I still remember getting ridiculously excited when the end of Summer was approaching because it meant that I got to choose brand new stationery for the school year! My school days may well be long gone but the stationery habit didn’t stop there. I still can’t resist popping into places like Paperchase and WH Smith to have a mooch around.

E will be starting Year 2 next week and whilst I have been quite organised and sorted his school uniform out – I forgot about stationery! We both had a browse on The Works Back to School section online so he could pick out some items. I couldn’t resist and chose some items too.

Take a look at our choices below:

We both love our notebooks – I am always picking them up whenever I see any that I think E will like. He tends to fill them drawing and stories which are just super cute! I fill mine up with random list (upon list) of things I need to do, things to buy, blog posts I need to write – literally anything that I fear I will forget has to be jotted down. I absolutely LOVE the Panda notebook I think it is just soooo cute!

The boys seem to have a bit of an obsession with novelty rubbers at the moment so it wasn’t much of a surprise that E chose the fake food ones as well as the twist erasers. As for highlighter pens – well you can never have too many right? I also love the double ended colour markers (bottom right) they are a genius space saving idea!
Without a doubt my absolute favourite thing about stationery are the variety of pens. I love love love gel glitter pens and E was adamant that he needed the Ninja Turtles Pencil case and the Finding Dory colour pen that has ten different colours.

If you’re like me and have forgotten to buy the stationery essentials why not take a look at the brilliant range from The Works. Many items start at just £1 which is such a bargain and you can order them into your local store to collect or have them delivered direct.

*Collaborative post