I must not buy. Buying is the purse-killer. Buying is the little-dopamine that brings total bankruptcy. I will face my wishlist. I will permit the limited time sale to pass over me and through me. And when it has expired I will turn the inner eye to see its impulses. When the mania has gone there will be nothing. Only $ will remain.
Needed this thank you
Time, in our experience, is linear, but in truth time is also looped. It is like a piece of yarn, in which each section of the strand twists and winds around every other - a complicated and complex knot, in which one part cannot be viewed out of context from the others.
When Women Were Dragons, Kelly Barnhill
August is already almost here! I don't even have any witty comments this time, time has just been flying past me in a daze lmao. But here's the BPC for the month!
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JOMP Book Photo Challenge || July || 21 || Favorite Endpages
A Circle of Witches: An Anthology of Victorian Witchcraft Stories by Peter Haining
June 14th
Some reading and life moments later.
I’ve been to the beach, been swimming in the sea and enjoying my reading. I managed to read Spring while it’s still technically spring (just) and I’m obsessed with Ali Smiths writing.
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July 22, 2023 - Colors
just a stack of some colourful spines 🌈
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they are sitting and pondering
Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.
🌺 Louisa May Alcott
there she is. my pride and joy. i think this is the best quality bind i've ever done. i didn't make any of my usual tiny little mistakes (the textblock is glued in straight!), and i'm not even a little disappointed in the design.
for the covers, i used a fabric i've had since i was a very small child — it's a really thin fabric, so i was a little worried, but it performed beautifully for me. it's white with delicate little blue flowers evenly spaced. i embroidered the lattice pattern over it, centering the flower print in each diamond. (i was thinking of the way leather covers are tooled sometimes in a very similar way.)
you'll notice there's also a straight line of stitching at the inner edge on both the front and back. aside from aesthetic value, what that's actually doing is creating a clean edge on my fabric. i can't leave open edges on the front cover, of course, or they'll fray, so what i did is fold it under and stitch it in place. it worked much better than my previous attempts to glue it in place.
the spine is a nice dark brown (the same one i used for shane) that i hand stitched the title into. i'm getting better at doing letters without guides, and it's honestly such a relaxing part of the process.
the endpapers inside are a sky blue to match the flowers, and the ribbon bookmark i added as well matches the color scheme. the book itself was actually a copy of p+p that was my sister's before me and has been around almost as long as i can remember, so there's a lot of my childhood put into this book.
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July 03, 2023 - Bookmarks 🔖
I HAVE ONE OF THOSE BOOKMARKS AND I NEVER FLIPPING KNEW IT WAS A BOOKMARK ARE YOU SERIOUS!!!
Whaaat 😶 what did you use it for then?
girlie you can't give up you don't have the mansion with a secret library yet
sometimes i forget how reading is just. marvelous. just an absolutely fucking endlessly joyful activity. i’ll go about my life and not read one single book for months and be like why am i morose! why am i so apathetic! what is missing here!!!! and try to look for whatever it is that is lacking and never find it anywhere and i get so tired and sad and angry, and then i’m finally like i’m gonna stop everything for a couple days and read a really good book bc i don’t care about anything else. and suddenly i get motivated to work bc i know i’ll read when i’m on break. i get more creative. i want to watercolor again and bust out the shameful fabric stash with all my unfinished sewing projects. god even my dreams get more vivid!! what the fuck! and i’m like here is the magic i was looking for, why did i ever think i was going to find it anywhere else. it was always here!!!
