Blue Stiggy – Personalised Notebooks with Meaning

Personalised handmade notebooks, typed slowly with meaning.

Blue Stiggy is a small, thoughtful brand creating personalised notebooks from a solar-powered studio in Lincolnshire — each one made using a vintage typewriter named Dorothy.

Every notebook is created slowly and deliberately, with words that may mean nothing to the maker — but everything to the person receiving them.

Notebooks with Meaning

Blue Stiggy’s signature notebooks are hand-painted, hand-stitched, and personalised using Dorothy.

Available in four colours and three sizes — from pocket journals to A4 keepsakes — they’re designed for everyday use, memory keeping, creativity, and reflection.

Customers use them for shopping lists, poetry, grief journals, wedding keepsakes, new beginnings, and moments that matter.

The words on the cover might be a private joke, a shared memory, or something deeply personal — and that’s exactly the point.

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A4 Personalised Eco friendly Notebook - Custom text typed on my vintage typewriter Dorothy

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A conversation about creativity, resilience, and the quiet power of words.

Meet Dorothy

At the heart of Blue Stiggy is Dorothy — a 1970s Baby Hermes typewriter who still types every personalisation, letter by letter.

Dorothy isn’t just a tool. She’s part of the process.

Each message is typed onto beautiful cotton paper made from recycled textile waste. It’s slow, wonderfully human, and intentionally different from the fast, digital world most of us live in.

More than a notebook

Blue Stiggy began during a period of unexpected change, when family life shifted and creating became a way to rebuild — practically and creatively.

What started with textile art and bookbinding evolved into something both useful and deeply personal: notebooks that people return to again and again, not just as stationery, but as companions.

Blue Stiggy personalised handmade notebooks typed by vintage typewriter Dorothy

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