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Here is my monthly planner spread in my Hobonichi techo for July. July's theme color is GOLD.

No peach this week. I tried to think of the solstice and the theme turned out to be green.

This one in my planner.

So I tried to combine several things and it just didn't work.

I got this fun chocolate bar from the Royal Shakespeare Company. I was going to write a poem inspired by it, but my next prompt is insects and I looked up Shakespeare and insects and found an article on carrion maggots and worms and I don't have any maggot stickers and really this wrapper is just too pretty to put maggots with it even if I did have them, so I did a simple collage (only 5 elements) and I will write my maggot poem separately.

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Day 8 Prompt: fairy

May's theme color is purple so I did a purple fairy collage.




Question of the Day

Day 8/ 2 MAY. What's the most interesting thing you have in your pockets right now?

I don't have anything in my pocket, it's a tiny no-pocket in my shorts, but I have my bag with me (I am fleeing the heat of the day at the public library) and I have (among other things) Minor's Epi-Pen and key chains with Mang (a squirrel in a horse mask) and Shooky (an angry cookie) and my Hobonichi Cousin planeer (with what I call the Scrabble cover and is officially called Unsodo: Shin-Bijutsukai).

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Last year I did an Easter blue collage, too. This is using the last of my egg nest stickers and the booklet that came with my chocolate bunny!

I was trying a pattern but I ran out of steam before I finished the fourth. Showing off some of my new haul: peach paper, red & pink gingham washi tape & hearts washi tape, Pooh hunny jar and bees and hive, and using up some of my whales. These are all in unused daily pages of my planner.

I'm not happy with this one, but I wanted to do something for the vernal equinox yesterday.

This is also postcard-size for pasting in my planner.

I periodically do a coffee-themed collage. This uses a bag from the coffee recommended by DW friend and I really like it. It says Dark Roast but it isn't very dark (on the web site it says 'dark/medium'). The organization supports tuberculosis treatment and research. In the future (when we have an income) I will probably buy more because it's Fair Trade. On the bag it says to pair with A Party of Lovers by Keats so I've included that below. This is my favorite kind of collage because it's very, very busy, many layers and with many different kinds of elements and textures.



A Party of Lovers by John Keats

Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes,
Nibble their toast, and cool their tea with sighs,
Or else forget the purpose of the night,
Forget their tea -- forget their appetite.
See with cross'd arms they sit -- ah! happy crew,
The fire is going out and no one rings
For coals, and therefore no coals Betty brings.
A fly is in the milk-pot -- must he die
By a humane society?
No, no; there Mr. Werter takes his spoon,
Inserts it, dips the handle, and lo! soon
The little straggler, sav'd from perils dark,
Across the teaboard draws a long wet mark.
Arise! take snuffers by the handle,
There's a large cauliflower in each candle.
A winding-sheet, ah me! I must away
To No. 7, just beyond the circus gay.
'Alas, my friend! your coat sits very well;
Where may your tailor live?' 'I may not tell.
O pardon me -- I'm absent now and then.
Where might my tailor live? I say again
I cannot tell, let me no more be teaz'd --
He lives in Wapping, might live where he pleas'd.'