hey guys welcome to planning with crystals and today's unboxing is a brand new stationary
subscription so this is the martha brook london stationery subscription box which is called
the stationary lovers club so it's just launched this is the first ever box they've done so this is
for june 2022 they only had a limited number of subscriptions i bought this myself i don't have
any relationship with the company or anything like that there's no discounts or anything on
this it literally sold out pretty soon after going on sale so you can get like a one-off box you can
get a rolling subscription they are going to open up some more places i believe on the 1st of july
so if you are interested in picking up next month's box then you should be able to do that
on the first of july they do tell you up front as well what that month's design is and what's
inside so you can go and look for that information if you do want to know and if that's going to kind
of impact whether or not you get the box so anyway i have picked it up and i'm going to share it with
you now i'm going to unbox it and show it to you now so it comes in a box like this which helpfully
it goes through the letterbox you don't need to be in when it gets delivered etc when you open it up
it says hello stationary lover welcome to the club another little perk with this subscription you get
10 off martha brooke everything on the website when you are a member of the club that's a nice
little extra perk so it comes wrapped up in tissue paper like this it was slightly neater when it
first arrived but i've had a little peek so i've kind of like put it back together and it's got
this cute little stick at the stationary lovers club by martha brook so let's have a look the idea
with this stationary box is it's gonna be based on a theme every month it resells at 19 pounds 95
if you get a monthly rolling subscription if you get like a one-off box i think it's 21.95 that
includes free uk delivery i believe they'll ship internationally but it costs extra for shipping i
don't know the exact costings because i haven't sort of looked at that myself obviously being
in the uk where they send the boxes out from i don't have to pay for postage so every month you
will get a personalized item so when you sign up they ask you which name you would like on there
so if you go by a nickname or something or i don't know you want someone else's name on there for any
reason then you can tell them that at checkout so this one's theme is a kind of floral design
there probably is a name for it if there is a name i'll put the name on the screen because i
can't remember it right now so there's no kind of leaflet or anything in here to like explain
the theme or tell you anything extra but there is info on the website like i said if you do
want to see that so there's a range of products in here i'll start off with the personalized one
so we get a little notebook this month that says crystals notes and it's
kind of stamped there on the front and like gold foiling so obviously whatever name you have given
is the name that would go there and it's got this lovely kind of gingham design and it just says
martha brook london on the back so it is kind of like a thin small flexible notebook and it is just
stapled as opposed to like stitching or anything the pages inside are plain personally i would
have preferred like dot grid or squares or lines or something just because i found that a little
bit easier not being the neatest of handwriters it doesn't look like it's got that many pages in
so for your info it's got 20 pages or 40 if you're counting the fact that you can run both sides i
suppose you'd go with 40 wouldn't you so it's not the biggest but it should last you for a little
while and it's kind of a nice sort of handbag type size i don't think they sell any in this size on
the website i will double check but i don't think they do so don't think there's any kind of price
comparison so this is very much exclusive to the box then we have got this ruler which i think i
got in my martha brook advent calendar which i also reviewed and i'll put a card here if you do
want to see that review it's a very very nice piece i like this a lot so it is a gold ruler
so it is only 12 centimeters so it's not kind of like 15 centimeters which would be like the normal
length of like a small ruler but anyway gorgeous gold one and i love the fact
that it has got this kind of clip on it so you can slide it onto this book or whatever
else you can even put it in an actual book and use it to kind of keep your place in your book
it actually fits maybe that's why it's this size because it actually does fit this book perfectly
now i do believe you can buy this on the website not 100 sure if you can get any of it online like
buy individually then i will link it underneath and i will put a thing on the screen if i haven't
then let's just assume it's exclusive to the subscription next up we have got some pink and
gray sticky tabs these are quite cute they're like a little kind of half moon shape almost
almost like a full moon but then with a little bit cut off but the nice kind of pastel colors
and obviously the stuck to the card i'm just going to get one off so we can kind of see what
the light comes so there we go so just got like a small amount of sticky at the bottom
if you can see there how i stuck it on the page but you could definitely like write something on
there if you wanted to kind of keep your place in this or a textbook or whatever you use these kind
of things for there's definitely space to do that and there's a nice kind of range of colors and
it feels like normal paper so it feels like the kind of paper that you can write on with a normal
pen opposed to some of those i've had that are like coated you have to have got like a special
sharpie or something these look like you should be able to write on them with just like a normal pen
then we have got some like little cards which are very cute but not really that usable for
me personally i never know what to do with these things so they often kind of get wasted
it's a shame but i just don't know what to do with them so there's a range of them there is
all along the same theme you could use them as like postcards or maybe put them on a little like
notice board or something there's that one then there is this one and on the back of this card
it does have how to press flowers so it gives you instructions on how to do that on the back
which is a nice touch it's got a little kind of activity you can do then a little quote by money
so they are the little cards and then there is a big art print which is the prettiest in my opinion
of all of the cards we've got here it's a little bit bigger but again really nice but i don't have
never-ending space to display these sorts of things i'm just gonna give you a bit of a size
comparison these are the smaller cards which more like postcard size and then this is the bigger one
so you can just get a bit of an idea and last but not least really like this we have got a little
kind of notebook no notepad put a little notepad not a notebook a notepad so it says today's plans
my list and it's got like a little tick list thing priorities leave until tomorrow
so quite like the way it's set out i like the design again with that kind of gingham
obviously matches really well with the gingham on the notebook so together nice little sort of duo
so yeah my thoughts on the first box i feel like it's missing a pen i feel like
if there'd have been a pen in there that would have kind of just elevated the box a little
bit for me because i kind of feel like that's what's missing um could have done without the
cards and the art print but that's just me personally i don't really go for these sorts
of things so not quite as exciting to me i knew what i was getting i'm not complaining i'm just
sort of giving you my feedback my thoughts on this particular box in case you're interested
so the kind of standout items for me are these two items like this ruler like i said and the sticky
notes are pretty handy as well so these are the ones i'm going to get like the most use out of
i do think this is cute i just don't think it's particularly special
especially considering that martha brooke do some really high quality notebooks this kind of feels
like a bit of a cheaper version if i'm honest so they say that the boxes are worth 30 pounds
i i mean i guess it's what people are willing to pay for things isn't it for me it doesn't
feel like 30 pounds worth of products but then i guess some of that is the output which is just
not something i would normally buy so i've no idea what they're worth but let me know in the comments
do you think this box is worth 30 pounds do you think it's worth the 19.95 are you subscribed if
so are you excited for this if not are you excited to kind of sign up in the future i am going to
stay subscribed for at least a couple of months to sort of see what's coming and like see what
future boxes are like i do love stationery it does make me happy when these sorts of things arrive
i just don't know yet whether it's sort of one that i'm gonna fall in love with as a subscription
but we will see like i said martha brooke do make some gorgeous pieces so hopefully we will get
better quality items and things as we go along if you watch my advent calendar unboxing you'll see
that was a little bit of a mixed bag as well so there were some items in there i really liked and
then there were other items that felt a little bit meh so it's pretty expensive as a brand as well
so i think because of that my expectations are a little bit higher but let me know what you think
anyway hopefully you've enjoyed this video like i said it was a really limited number of spots
available for the subscription so i did want to share it with you just so that anybody who didn't
get to get a box would get to see exactly what was inside and sort of see whether you've you know
dodged a bullet or whether you should get the box in the future so i hope you've enjoyed watching
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