paper trail: post-it notes

The humble post-it note turned 30 last month {cue happy birthday singing}.

The original little yellow square of paper was the result of an engineering mistake by scientists who accidentally stumbled upon an adhesive that could stick and be repositioned on just about any surface.

So in honour of the post-it, here’s some great sticky products, inspired by that original yellow square.

1. Toast it post-its from Lemontree
2. The original post-it in a speech bubble at Paperstone
3. Writing notes can be murder ~ from Tesora
4. Vintage sticky notes set at Fred Flare
5. Great idea ~ you need these light bulb sticky notes from Nothing Elegant

In March, the sticky pad’s inventors, 3M scientists Arthur Fry and Spencer Silver {not Romy and Michele}, were even inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

{images from their respective sources}