I have a confession: I own three journals that are less than a quarter full. Not because I stopped caring about journalling — I care about it deeply, in the abstract, in the way you care about going to the gym or learning Italian. I just kept sitting down with a blank page and feeling like whatever I put on it wasn't quite right. Too sparse. Too plain. Not the version of journalling I had in my head.
The Bonito Lovely Animal Stickers from LuLuFun Studio fixed that. I know how that sounds. But stay with me.
Why I Needed Something to Change
I'd been in a journalling rut for about four months. I'd open the notebook, write a date, stare at the page, and then close it again. The problem wasn't that I had nothing to say — it was that the blank page felt like a commitment I wasn't ready to make. I needed something to break the ice. Something that made the page feel less precious, less intimidating. Something that made it feel like play rather than performance.
I'd been following a few Korean stationery accounts online for a while — the aesthetic is genuinely beautiful, all soft colours and illustrated characters and careful little details — and I kept seeing sticker sheets come up. I'd always assumed they were the kind of thing you bought and then felt too precious to actually use. But I was desperate enough to try.
I found the Bonito Lovely Animal Stickers on ALTOE for £3.20 and ordered them on a Tuesday evening without overthinking it.
Why This One Specifically
There are a lot of sticker sheets out there. I chose the Bonito Lovely Animal set because the artwork stopped me mid-scroll. It's the kind of illustration style that feels handmade even when it isn't — soft, warm, slightly imperfect in the best way. The animals are whimsical without being childish. There's a bear in a little outfit. A rabbit doing something dignified. A duck that looks like it has opinions.
At £3.20, the risk was essentially zero. But the quality is genuinely above what you'd expect at that price point. The stickers are printed on good paper, the colours are rich without being garish, and they peel cleanly without tearing or leaving residue. I've used cheaper sticker sheets that felt like a lottery every time you tried to peel one. These don't.
What Happened When I Used Them
They arrived on Thursday. I sat down with my journal that evening, peeled off a small bear and a duck and placed them in the corner of a page before I'd written a single word. And then — this is the part that surprised me — I wrote two pages. Not because the stickers were magic, but because the page suddenly felt like mine. The blank white space had been claimed. There was already something there, something I'd chosen, and the rest just followed.
I've journalled every day since. Not always a lot — sometimes just a few lines and a sticker — but consistently, which is more than I managed in the previous four months combined. The stickers give me a reason to open the notebook. They make the ritual feel like something I'm looking forward to rather than something I'm supposed to do.
How It Changed Things
I've since ordered four more sheets from LuLuFun Studio — the Coffee stickers, the Forest Botanical set, the Food Trip sheet, and the Work and Work one for my planner. My journal is no longer a source of low-level guilt. It's something I actually look forward to. I've started recommending sticker sheets to everyone I know who's ever mentioned wanting to journal but not quite managing it, because I think the blank page problem is more common than people admit, and this is a genuinely good solution to it.
For £3.20, the Bonito Lovely Animal Stickers gave me back a habit I'd been trying to rebuild for months. That's an extraordinary return on a very small investment.
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