Hi, I’m Annen from the Hobonichi Techo team.

As the current topic of the Hobonichi Techo news is “I'm glad I wrote this down!” I would like to introduce the scrapbooking that I tried out this year for the first time.


I have always had a habit of hoarding things I like.

The world has so many lovely designs, from candy boxes, cans, and shopping bags to flyers; I just want to keep the ones I love.

▼A part of my collection at home.


There are still many other things in my daily life that I am interested in, such as candy wrappers and stickers on prepared foods.

I imagined how fun it would be to put all these little daily favorites in one techo, so I decided to make a scrapbook with a plain notebook.

▼The year and month when the scrapbooking started on the end paper of the cover.

▼Nine months have passed, making it quite thick. What would it look like when I finish the whole book?


Scrapbooking was easier than I thought; just pick a topic for the page and paste all of your favorites there.

▼Stickers on prepared foods

▼Vegetable packagings

▼Tapes with the shop logos

▼Chopstick bags for memories


Since the plain notebooks have four different colors (red, blue, green, and purple) for the graph paper, you can use them to have separate topics by color.


I am unsure if you can see it in the photos, but I keep a rule to use red graph paper pages for snack and bread packages and purple for wrapping paper. (The blue and green graph paper is for pasting anything)

▼Red: snack and bread packages


▼Purple: wrapping paper


It is amusing to see the pages filled with the designs that I love,

And looking back, I realize that precious memories are kept together inside them, such as “the souvenir that I got from that trip” and “the delighted gift I got from that person,” which makes the notebook even more special.

I feel that these types of packages that I am obsessed with are taken for granted now but could be gone someday, which probably contributes to my desire to collect them.

I dream that this scrapbook will perhaps become a valuable resource when I look back on it decades from now.


~Extra info~
Washi tape and glue tape are the two must-haves for scrapbooking.


Sometimes, after I paste stuff on my techo, I want to move a particular piece to a different page to make it look better. With these two items, I’m free to do whatever I want!
(I use the washi tape as a double-sided tape by wrapping it up)

I especially recommend this “Dotliner (restickable type)” glue tape, which is less noticeable when applying materials like transparent films.
▼It glues in a transparent dot pattern.

*If the glue does not stick on the film, you can glue it to the techo page and attach the film to it to make it stick.

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To celebrate the Hobonichi Techo surpassing ten million all-time sales, we’re recruiting stories of everyone’s one-in-ten-million day. We’d love to hear about your own personal unforgettable day, and perhaps were glad you wrote it down in your techo. You will be able to submit your episode by clicking on the image below. We look forward to reading your submission!

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