Hobonichi 2025 Unboxing [Part 2] // starting my 2025 planner early

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💛 [ Hobonichi ] Cafe au Lait - A6
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💛 [ Hobonichi ] HON A6 - Slash (Ivory)
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💛 [ Itoya ] Pilot VP Stripe Gold
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💛 [ Hobonichi ] Kitta Clear Stickers - Cat
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💛 [ Hobonichi ] Unsodo Pencil Board - A6
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💛 [ Hobonichi ] Photo Album
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💛 [ Hobonichi ] Alettone Brown Cover - A5
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💛 [ Hobonichi ] Day-Free 2025 (Japanese) - A5
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💛 [ Hobonichi ] Paddington - Weeks
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💛 [ Hobonichi ] Alettone Olive Document Case
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[@ngocngocnotes]

Make sure you watch in HD ✨

[@brieanap]

I love this video! I got the A6 cafe au lait, too, and I almost screamed when I realized my 2024 hon could fit in. (Tip: the vanishing point fits in the center of the case better than the loop, so you don't have to worry about scratching.)

[@earthologyhut]

I have been wondering this for the longest time - thank you for pulling me out of my anxiety state. Varsha, London. 🫶🏽🙌🏾

[@ngocngocnotes]

Omg, thank you so much for the tip about putting my VP in the middle of the case! This kind of big-brain thinking is why we need women as leaders 😆✨ And thank you so much for watching 🥰

[@rockypaperscissorsco]

the cafe au lait with the slash ivory HON and the gold pilot vanishing OMG perfect combo

[@ngocngocnotes]

Literally the the trio 🤎 Thanks so much for watching, Raquel! 🫶✨

[@kimidesk]

i love that you journaled in your hobonichi. itll be nice to look back at a few spreads while in 2025 :)

[@ngocngocnotes]

Now I just gotta make sure to keep up with it 😆 Thank you so much for watching, Kimi 🥰🫶✨

[@earthologyhut]

This was such a great video. You are so insane - the best people are!! I absolutely adored this video, it was so much fun to watch…. Off to watch your previous videos for more unboxing fun.. I’m sure. I put in one order… for myself, but just like last year I am fighting with myself to put in another (not at fisticuffs yet!). I fluff up my notebooks so I don’t know if mine would still fit after adding collage elements, stickers and I too love fountain pens… literally sitting her drooling over your gold vanishing point - such a beautiful combo with the cafe cover - now I want both but I love my pens like my babies so I couldn’t see myself getting cross with the zipper for scraping my “Precious” (pen). Varsha, London 🤣🙏🏽🫶🏽🙌🏾

[@oceantides08]

Agreed, entertained for sure! Question, since that zip cover is leather, does it smell like leather, at least inside?

[@ngocngocnotes]

Hahaha, thank you so much for watching and I'm so glad you were entertained! 😆🫶 I definitely think you might end up fighting with the zip cover as your journal grow if you tend to include a lot of ephemera. But at least when it's still "flat," it can sit in the pretty Cafe Au Lait cover 🤭

[@ngocngocnotes]

The interior of my Cafe Au Lait cover smells more plastic-y than leather 🤔 I wonder if it's because the exterior fabric overwhelms the interior leather smell, or if maybe the hot weather transferred the smell of the plastic bag to the cover. In any case, I don't notice any smell it during normal usage. And I'm sure it'll fade with time 😊

[@MandaPandaPlans]

I love your voice and personality ❤ the cafe au lait cover is so gorgeous but I know I dont do well with zipper covers. 😢

[@ngocngocnotes]

Thank you so much for watching! ☺️🫶 Tbh, I'm not a huge fan of zip covers either. But the aesthetics of this cover were too good, haha! I'll probably be rotating this amongst my other covers, but I am happy to have it in my collection ✨

[@meekdear]

I loooooove your voice and this demonstration 😂. Thank you for showing Cafe au Lait!

[@ngocngocnotes]

Aww thank you sooo much for watching! I'm glad you enjoyed it 🥰

[@PensandJournal]

Well now I feel like I really need to get the HoON a5 to fill the alettone cover better 😅- 4th order might be in the works after all

[@ngocngocnotes]

Ahahahaha we both low-key saw this coming 😂

[@tortagialla]

Thanks for sharing a closer look at the cafe au lait cover 😍 and I love your journaling idea, starting in your hon already - it’s actually very cool if you know it’s not possible to fill out every page in a year anyway.

[@ngocngocnotes]

Thank you so much for watching! 🫶 I hope I’ll be able to fill out every daily page between now and end of next year, hehe ✨

[@nyek1246]

I think you can peel off the back of the Kitta stickers, so it sticks all the way 😊

[@ngocngocnotes]

Omg this is literally mind-blowing information!!!!

[@rdeniserhinehart7512]

Haha manure

[@ngocngocnotes]

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[@linda_nguyen]

the cafe au lait is gorg. NU WILL FALL. also 2x speed did not disappoint but the video finished too quickly

[@ngocngocnotes]

Ahahahaha even after 28mins of my yapping, she has not fallen 🤣 You’re more than welcome to watch it ~again~ for a longer watching experience 🤭

[@lazyanaloguer]

2x kills me hahaha The real q is did this tempt YOU?? Ngoc is the one that failed here (as I sweat profusely)

[@ngocngocnotes]

Nu literally woke up and chose violence omg