Hobonichi Unboxing 2025 Journal and Cover Picks

[@JennaTempleton]

Thank you for watching and big hugs if you say hey in the comments. Still get nervous to post on You Tube after all these years. Let me know in the comments your journal and Hobonichi picks for 2025? Would love to know!

[@christinavaughan1980]

I love smelling books and paper!!!

[@JennaTempleton]

Yes! New books and stationery! ❤️😂🤣📖✏️

[@dawnyWestScotland]

I love the black and blue one 💙 Can’t wait for my Hobonichi, cute haul! ✂️☀️

[@JennaTempleton]

Well I’m relieved that someone likes this one at least. Hope you were able to get your pick.

[@dianagable6640]

Oh did you go to the Rainbowholic🌈shop? I would love to see her shop? Great haul. Thanks for sharing!💜

[@JennaTempleton]

Yes I did! Finally got to meet friend Kaila-San in person too! 🌈🌈

[@dianagable6640]

That’s so cool! 💜

[@Biino]

I started watching your video this morning and my hobonichi order came! How serendipitous! I ordered some bulky stuff so mine came in a separate regular box - thankful my hobonichi box will be pristine! It’s quite unlike them to mail the box on its own, previous years was always in a mailer bag 🤨 I’m going to film my opening so I’ll do it later when the light is better. I hope I’m luckier than you with the freebie. I only have one chance to get a cute one. I do love your workaround for the unwanted notebook cover! The osamu graphics are so cute 🥰 I realised watching this I forgot to buy a KITTA during the panic buying! The flower design you got is so pretty 😍

[@JennaTempleton]

Enjoyed seeing your unboxing too! Yes! I do remember one year being lucky to have it in a box within a box. I think they do it when an accessory like you got is bigger than the main box. Something to keep in mind when ordering next time. Buy a bigger item that won’t fit in their box so they have to put it in another one! 🤣😂 Are we on to a Hobonichi ordering hack! ? 😂🤣

[@Paperpillow.stationery]

Ohhhh, I will copy your idea with the freebie notebooks 👍 I also got two of the black and blue ones and wasn’t thrilled. Thanks for a lovely video

[@JennaTempleton]

Thanks for watching! Feel free to Tag or shout me out if you do a diy cover. 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@DL-idk]

My order has just arrived today! The freebie notebook I get is the pastel pink one. I only have one and the only one I didn’t quite like was the repeating leafy design, so I’m happy. I bought two a6 blank notebooks! Love doing watercolor on tomoe river paper so it’s a no brainer for me. Edit: I’m currently using the 2024 one piece hon. It’s more portable than a regular a6 in cover and I find it practical.

[@JennaTempleton]

Oh! So lucky you got the pastel pink notebook. I would love the leafy design one!

[@AuntieAlexandra]

I looooove that new journal/planner smell! So full of promise and excitement. I got the same rainbow Hon but in the Cousin. I’ve been changing planners every 5 minutes this year, so I bought all the sizes for 2025 because I can’t seem to settle down! I got the entire Unsodo line for A6 and A5 covers and the weeks and all the pencil boards and the Hon. And I picked up the Shibata Keiko cover with the cats surfing on bread, that was from the Spring release. That A6 Yumi Kitagishi cover is gorgeous! I resisted, but looking at your video of the inside red cover with the “built in” deco is so tempting! The black freebie journal is very classy. I got the one with the bats, which I didn’t realize was bats until I had it in hand. Perfect for Halloween.

[@JennaTempleton]

Thanks for sharing your journal picks! I always enjoy hearing everyone’s faves. Enjoy your new journals and thank you for watching and commenting. 📖🙏🏻✏️

[@pennycandyys]

If you want to save the stickers, or remove them, use the heat from a blow dryer or iron, to loosen the adhesive.

[@JennaTempleton]

Thank you! I tried a few things but last sticker wouldn’t budge. I could always decorate it with washi and stickers like I did a previous year! 🤣🤗So another idea for anyone who has the same trouble with stickers.

[@pennycandyys]

@@JennaTempleton There's another trick that helps sometimes, you just have to be careful. Use a razor blade between the sticker and substrate, pushing it in and at the same time slowly and carefully rocking the blade side to side while pulling up. Sometimes after you get enough of the blade underneath you can carefully pull the sticker up. Haha, I use to be a picture framer a long time ago, so I learned a few tricks. If you need a blade, your local picture framing shop might be willing to give you one of their used ones. If you still can't get the sticker off, but you really, really want it, you could apply clear tape of the right size over top, burnish it down a lot, and then gently pull the tape up to separate the top surface of the stamp from the bottom layer that has the adhesive. My daughter bought me some beautifully printed Japanese paper samples, but they're too thick for journals, so I've used this trick to reduce the thickness of the papers.

[@lorraineculp1504]

I saw an unboxing where the woman got FIVE black and blue free notebooks. You know she was disappointed. I just cover notebooks with decorative paper and glue stick. You have some great papers for that! I love the cover you created! I placed 3 different orders, a few days apart. I just kept deciding I had to have more. 😊 I should get different freebie notebooks. I've only received one box so far, and it was the black and blue. I ordered the Special Delivery Moon hon in A6, the Spy Family weeks and the Spy Family hon in A5. I'm excited to set them up for next year!

[@JennaTempleton]

Thanks for sharing your picks! Enjoy journaling in everything. At least getting the same covers lead to a fun creative cover project. 🤗📖 Wow! But getting five of the same one. Hope that person was able to swap with a friend.

[@jane324delastenza]

I’m glad I came across your KZbin channel, I really liked your haul. 😊 I also bought the notebook for the first time this year, but I don’t yet know how to use it

[@JennaTempleton]

Thank you for watching and commenting! 🙏🏻 Happy first Hobonichi! For ideas on how to use I have monthly creative journal prompts, printables, videos on Patreon also lots of videos here too if that helps. 👍🏻

[@dada_explorer]

Lovely haul!🎉

[@JennaTempleton]

Thank you! 😊

[@carolinemartinez1324]

Thanks so much for sharing, love it all and it's all so you!!! The HON is my absolute favorite and I really struggled not to get it in that lovely rainbow stripe... I am an A5 Rings for my main planner (though I have been a Hobonichi A5 Day free for years prior) but... I will be utilizing a weeks this coming year because I can't NOT use a Hobonichi haha!!!

[@JennaTempleton]

I cannot not use a Hobonichi too! 🤣 Your ring journals are so lovely! Really excited to start journaling in the Hon for first time too and back to a weeks this year. 👏🏻📖🤗✏️

[@youwishbunnyfish]

I got the A5 Hon for next year, and I'm super excited. I found that previously I would take the covers off my Hobos, so now I don't need to worry about the bulkiness 😂

[@JennaTempleton]

Excited for the Hon too! 🤗I might have to be careful with sticking to much in this one though. As they look like it could bulk quick.

[@gotica]

I think your camera drank a little to much xD All lovely things you bought.. everything is part of your personality :3

[@JennaTempleton]

Lol! Even the camera was excited that it couldn’t focus! 🤣

[@christinavaughan1980]

I have noticed that most everyone is getting multiple of the same free notebooks.

[@JennaTempleton]

Totally! I can see lots of Aussies getting the black and blue ones.

[@gabmatth]

legitimately i have ONLY seen people get the black and blue freebie notebook

[@JennaTempleton]

I’ve been seeing this a lot too!

[@gotica]

I saw a person get four of the same, I think there is something wrong when they are packing. I would look out to see if you can trade with someone or buy the one you wants :3 that's what I did last year xD

[@JennaTempleton]

It’s good we have a nice community that trades and looks out for each other. So always an option. 👍🏻

[@mrsfoxezplans-akatonifox1315]

Hey I ordered day 1 and still waiting in Oz but its coming on the 19th 🙏

[@JennaTempleton]

Thanks for watching! Hope your order has come now. 🙏🏻✏️📖

[@berkbuns]

I really hate that Hobonichi doesn’t realize that many of us (dare I say most of us?) actually “collect” their beautiful boxes to reuse. It doesn’t seem difficult to slip the box into a simple mailing pouch. Last year was my first time ordering from Hobonichi and I was very disappointed when my box came with mailing stickers all over it. I also don’t see why they can’t make it such that the people packing the boxes can tell which exclusives are which so that people don’t get duplicated notebooks.

[@OTommy81]

What are you doing to use that ugly box for? I am seriously asking and not trying to be mean or funny

[@JennaTempleton]

Totally, I assume the notebooks at the warehouse are in different boxes, so they just need to take notebooks from a different one.

[@JennaTempleton]

@@OTommy81 For Hobonichi fans many of us like to reuse the box to store our Hobonichi items, I have also put my completed and full finished journals in these boxes for safe keeping. I like to recycle as well and have sent treats to pen pals in these boxes. They come in a different colour each year so that adds to the interest in them too.

[@OTommy81]

@@JennaTempleton aha very creative

[@AuntieAlexandra]

I looooove that new journal/planner smell! So full of promise and excitement. I got the same rainbow Hon but in the Cousin. I’ve been changing planners every 5 minutes this year, so I bought all the sizes for 2025 because I can’t seem to settle down! I got the entire Unsodo line for A6 and A5 covers and the weeks and all the pencil boards and the Hon. And I picked up the Shibata Keiko cover with the cats surfing on bread, that was from the Spring release. That A6 Yumi Kitagishi cover is gorgeous! I resisted, but looking at your video of the inside red cover with the “built in” deco is so tempting! The black freebie journal is very classy. I got the one with the bats, which I didn’t realize was bats until I had it in hand. Perfect for Halloween.

[@JennaTempleton]

Your journal lineup sounds amazing! Happy journaling! 🤗📖✏️