Commit to Leather-Bound Creativity

These days you spend so much time on your smart phone, your netbook, your laptop, or even your desktop computer that you forget the simple pleasures in life, like stopping to smell the roses. Of course, when roses aren't available, there are other things you can take advantage of, like reading a good book (that is made of actual pages and paper!) or people-watching. You can also engage in the creative act of art outside of using your tablet to draw with friends using a classy leather sketchbook.

Leather-bound sketchbooks are the signature of any artist, a great tool that can be brought with you anywhere you like and used to capture something that you happened across or an image that has flashed across your imagination. The advantages of leather sketchbooks for an artist – professional or not – are huge, and considering that you can get them in any size or shape you want, they can also be either very mobile or, in the case of a large leather sketchbook, perfect for creating the basis of larger, more complex work of art.

If a sketchbook isn't for you, you probably still have a use for a leather address book. With leather address books, you can keep track of information on people you meet, places you go, and information that you gather over time. Yes, you can do this electronically as well, but a tablet or smart phone can be difficult to navigate, and can't always hold all the information you want to input into it. Paper, on the hand, is yours to manipulate as you will.

Furthermore, a sketchbook or address book just looks more adult, more traditional, and more intriguing. You don't have to worry about recharging them, dropping them, getting them wet, preventing fingerprint smudges, or any of the other myriad problems faced by electronics. Consider also that sketchbooks and address books are considerably more affordable than electronics that (again) require a charge, can easily break, and can't always have information inputted into them without considerably effort and finagling.

Consider, also, the looks you'll get when you pull your little black book out of a coat pocket, your briefcase, or your car's glove compartment. Everyone will know you're serious about what you're writing or drawing because these days, if it isn't digital, it's considered more real. More committed. Are you the kind of person who commits to what they create?