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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.'

Today (7 Feb) is the day for wearing red for Women's Heart Health so I did a red and heart themed spread.

Challenge #9

In your own space, create a fanwork.

This is my Sherlock Sunday entry #2 for 2025.

The Sign of Four is the second of four Sherlock Holmes novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Interesting fact: Oscar Wilde and Doyle attended a party in 1899 sponsored by Lippincott Publishing and both ended up with book deals by the end of it. The Wilde book was The Picture of Dorian Grey and Doyle's was The Sign of Four

I listened to an audiobook version of The Sign of Four with David Timson as narrator who does a solid job. And I made a collage. (a physical collage made with sticker and paper in a notebook and scanned).

The Sign of Four is where Watson gets a wife and we see Holmes' cocaine addiction. We meet the Baker Street Irregulars and a certain dog named...?

The dog in the collage is the only dog sticker I had. He doesn't look like that in the book! I included 6 pearls for the ones Mary receives from an anonymous benefactor and a map of the Andaman Islands. It's unlikely that kind of shaped bottle would hold cocaine but the other ones were less likely.



One of the best parts of The Sign of Four is that we get the Watch deduction which BBC Sherlock riffed on in the first episode of that series. And the scene in the cab of Sherlock explaining the clues from John's phone has to be one of my very favorite scenes in all of fandom.



And a drabble I did inspired by the phrase 'neat Moroccan case' which we get in The Sign of Four

Title: Neat Moroccan case
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (ACD)
Rating: Gen
Length: 100
Prompt: confused
Notes: Angst. set during Hiatus (when Holmes is 'dead')
Summary: Watson tries to find a cause for his bad mood.

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A member of my meditation center recently sent me some cards she bought on a trip to India long ago, and they are very beautiful. The quotation is from The Bhagavad Gita, specifically The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living by Eknath Easwarn, who founded the meditation center I am a member of. I didn't want to cover up the card too much. And I want to balance using the cards in collage and actually sending them to folks.

It's a stretch (ha, my word for 2025) to call this a collage. It's more just journal decoration, I think. I will try for something more sophisticated for February. I want to do Valentines. I'm trying to cut down on my consumption (which I totally failed last night, but whatever, we pick ourselves up and brush ourselves off and get back in the saddle without our credit card) so if you have Valentine craft stuff you want to get rid of...let me know! sweettartheart sent me some nice stickers and debriswoman sent me some rich red collage paper and my sister sent me way too much pink ribbon. And I have some washi tape from past years.

BUT...the boys are dismissed 90 minutes early today for snow (I think it will be only a little bit. I hope, actually, because Minisculus is invited to a laser-tag/arcade birthday party this evening) and on MONDAY...we may get SEVEN inches!

To quote the Wire:

This is Baltimore, son, the gods will not save you!

I went to the store TODAY and beat everyone to the stocking up.