I Started Journalling Properly Because of a £3.20 Sheet of Stickers.

11 juin 2026

LuLuFun Studio Bonito Lovely Animal Stickers – whimsical Korean stationery sticker sheet with cute illustrated animals for planners journals and scrapbooking

I have been trying to build a journalling habit for two years. In that time I have bought three journals — a plain one, a dotted one, and one with prompts — and filled approximately forty pages across all three before losing momentum and putting them in a drawer. The problem was not a lack of things to write. The problem was that opening the journal felt like a task rather than a pleasure, and tasks are easy to defer.

The LuLuFun Studio Bonito Lovely Animal Stickers cost £3.20. They are a sheet of whimsical Korean stationery stickers featuring illustrated animals in the kind of soft, detailed style that makes you want to look at them for longer than is strictly necessary. I bought them on a whim, put one on the cover of my dotted journal, and opened it the next morning to add more inside.

I have written in it every day since. That was four months ago. The stickers are the reason.

Why I Decided I Needed Them

I'd been following a stationery account on social media that posted about Korean stationery — the particular aesthetic of illustrated animals, soft colours, and the kind of careful, considered design that makes even a small sticker feel like a piece of art. I'd been admiring it for months without buying anything, telling myself it was a frivolous purchase.

Then I read something about habit formation that changed how I thought about it: the environment you create around a habit matters as much as the habit itself. A journal that looks beautiful is a journal you want to open. A journal you want to open is a journal you write in. The stickers weren't frivolous. They were infrastructure.

I ordered the Bonito Lovely Animal sheet from ALTOE for £3.20 and put one on the cover of my journal that evening.

LuLuFun Studio Bonito Animal Stickers sheet detail – showing the whimsical illustrated animal designs on the Korean stationery sticker sheet including the soft colour palette and detailed artwork — The sticker sheet. Each animal is illustrated with the kind of care and detail that makes Korean stationery distinctive — soft colours, precise linework, and a whimsy that’s charming rather than childish. These are stickers you want to use rather than save.

Why This One Specifically

The Bonito Lovely Animal sheet is the kind of Korean stationery that the stationery community talks about — the illustrated animals are drawn with genuine craft, the colour palette is soft and cohesive, and the variety on a single sheet means you have options for different moods and different pages. Some stickers are small enough for margins and dates; some are large enough to anchor a page spread.

LuLuFun Studio curate Korean stationery with a genuine eye for quality — the Bonito range is one of the most beloved in the Korean stationery world, and the illustrations have the kind of considered charm that makes them work in a journal without looking like decoration for its own sake. They add something to a page rather than just sitting on it.

At £3.20 for a full sheet, the value is also genuinely remarkable. This is the kind of stationery that costs considerably more when bought from specialist import shops. The accessibility of the price means you can use the stickers freely rather than saving them for a special occasion that never quite arrives.

LuLuFun Studio Bonito Stickers in use in a journal – showing the whimsical Korean animal stickers applied to a journal page demonstrating how they look in a real journalling context — In use, in a journal. The stickers work as anchors for a page — they give the eye somewhere to land and make the surrounding writing feel more considered. A page with a well-placed sticker is a page you’re more likely to fill.

What Happened When I Put One on the Cover

I put a small bear sticker on the cover of my dotted journal — bottom right corner, slightly off-centre, the way you'd place something you wanted to look considered rather than deliberate. I looked at it for a moment. The journal looked different. It looked like mine rather than like a journal I'd bought and not used.

The next morning I opened it to add more stickers inside — to mark the date, to decorate a corner, to make the page feel like somewhere I wanted to be. And then I wrote. Not because I'd planned to, but because the page was already open and already beautiful and it seemed like the right thing to do.

I've written in it every morning since. Four months of daily entries, which is more than I managed in two years of trying without the stickers. The environment changed the habit. The stickers changed the environment.

LuLuFun Studio Bonito Animal Sticker sheet full view – showing the complete sheet of whimsical Korean illustrated animal stickers with the full variety of designs and sizes available — The full sheet. The variety of sizes and designs means there’s something for every use — small stickers for margins and dates, larger ones for page anchors, and the kind of illustrated detail that rewards close attention.

How It Changed Things

I journal every day now. That's the simple version. The more accurate version is that I look forward to opening my journal every morning, which is a thing I didn't expect to be able to say and that I attribute directly to the stickers. A journal that looks beautiful is a journal you want to open. I understand this now in a way I didn't before.

I've also ordered six more sheets since — different designs from the LuLuFun Studio range, different animals, different colour palettes. My journal has become something I'm genuinely proud of, which is not something I expected from a stationery habit. The stickers are the thing that made it that.

LuLuFun Studio Bonito Lovely Animal Stickers lifestyle – showing the Korean stationery stickers in a styled stationery flat lay context demonstrating their aesthetic appeal for journalling and planning — In context. The Bonito stickers have the kind of aesthetic that makes stationery lovers stop scrolling — soft, detailed, whimsical without being childish. They look as good in a flat lay as they do on a journal page.

For £3.20, the LuLuFun Studio Bonito Lovely Animal Stickers gave me a journalling habit I'd been trying to build for two years. The stickers changed the environment. The environment changed the habit. Four months of daily entries and counting. That's an extraordinary return on £3.20.

Get the LuLuFun Studio Bonito Lovely Animal Stickers here: Bonito Lovely Animal Stickers – Whimsical Korean Stationery for Planners

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