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📦 guess what finally arrived the other day….. my 2025 hobonichi planner !!! i got the yumi kitagishi weeks and matching pencil board, as well as the 2025 weekly accessory and a lavender pilot kakuno with an extra fine nib

after much deliberation, i decided to keep it simple with only one omnibus 2025 planner. i was originally going to get two—one work and one personal, but knowing how utilitarian i am with planners, i was probably going to end up abandoning one. i do plan on using the 2025 weekly accessory exclusively for work, specifically tracking my hours and time blocking everyday

one of my planner goals in 2025 is to treat my planner as more than just a receptacle for to-do lists and appointments. thus, i decided to start an interest log in the back pages. it's basically my modification of a commonplace journal. but instead of doing a deep dive on one topic, i just want to keep track of things that have caught my interest (e.g., fashion show, poem, author, book, song...) and write down a short blurb or excerpt. the goal is to later return to them and do a deeper dive :)))

Q for my fellow stationery freaks: what's your 2025 lineup? do you have any 2025 planner goals?

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Spell Bags

What Are Spell Bags?

Spell Bags are usually small bags that contain a range of ingredients linked to the intention of your spell. They can sometimes be known as different names, or have slight cultural differences. For the purpose of this post I will refer to a spell bag, but they may also be called spell sachets, charm bags, and in some cultures, mojo bags (please do your own research). You can also make spell jars, which are pretty much the same, only you use a jar and not a bag.

Bag Colors

Gold - wealth, protection, the God Silver - prosperity, the moon, the Goddess Yellow - healing Orange - travel, communication, messages Green - nature, growth, prosperity, abundance, friendship Blue - peace, calm, wisdom, benevolence Purple - wisdom, wealth, grandeur, mysteries, justice Red - success, romance, strength, protection Pink - love, healing, friendship Black - absorbs negative energy

How to Make a Spell Bag

Think about your intention for making the spell bag… Why are you making it?… What do you want to get from it?

Think about ingredients you want to put into the spell bag and their correspondences… What ingredients will fit into your spell bag?… What specific ingredients are associated with your intentions (for example, what herbs are used for protection)

Collect your bag and ingredients, and focus your intent on each of them. You may also want to write a magickal chant. This can be simply read out, or written down to leave inside the spell bag.

Assemble your spell bag.

Spend time either meditating on your intention, or reciting your magickal chant.

Find a place to put your spell bag. This may simply be on your altar, or in your pocket. Alternatively, there may be a specific place you want to put it (such as by your bed for a sleep spell bag, or in the corner of your room for protection).

Tip-Jar

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dark -> fighting <- fairy (comm)

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Samarkand by Amin Maalouf

A novel that perfectly encompasses the arabian dark academia subgenre. This story has a dual timeline, the first is set in old-time Persia as the mystic Omar Khayyam authors his famous book; the Rubaiyaat. The other timeline is set in modern-day America as an obsessed scholar attempts to hunt down the original Rubaiyaat manuscript.

I was delighted to find a personal inscription on the first page by a past owner. I love thrifting books and seeing other people's writings in them.

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things to not dwell on:

people who treated you badly

things you can’t change

comparing yourself to others

things to think about more:

baby animals

people who love u unconditionally

good things in your life that make you happy

days and times to look forward to

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“what’s your dream job” i do not dream of labor AKA corporate girly kaito moodboard for ⚙️🍥

interact and credit to use…?

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Sabamodest

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Francois Boisrond

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subtitles from Science Gossip, 1900

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I asked a friend to go pick some mint while I went to the greenhouse to get lemon balm, for our herbal tea, and soon after she left she called from the garden "How do I tell the mint and stinging nettle apart in the dark...?" then immediately added "You're about to say the mint smells minty while the stinging nettle stings. Don't!!" and it made me smile and I wished I could take a screenshot of these words, just to keep a little written trace of this uneventful evening. Sure I can write it down (as I am doing), but then I felt wistful about all the other trivial exchanges I don't get to archive. I know with texts and such a lot of them are in written form nowadays and can be saved, but I've always wanted to save everything. I think from now on I'm going to ask my friends to take a monastic vow of silence when they come to my house so they'll have to write everything down, preferably on stone tablets so computer issues and house fires can't make their words disappear. Yes. This way I will finally become cool and laid-back about memory and loss and the ephemeral nature of existence.

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☀️ sat dec 14

sleep :: 8h 21m

body :: 20 min yoga!

reading :: about 40 minutes down in ghost map!

reflection :: i had a car repair today, so i did that and tried to make some progress on my sewing. it's VERY easy for me to get frustrated because alot of videos make it look easy, but i run into strange problems (my hand tremors mean my cuts are never straight or even.. this makes it harder to meet the two seams?) and become incredibly disheartened when there's no easy solution. then i ran out of thread. LOL. tomorrow is another day. i play ff14 now.

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Reminder that your notes don't need to look perfect, you just need to be able to learn from them

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🔑 fri dec 13

sleep :: 8h 24m

body :: nothing today

reading :: a little bit of Ghost Map again!

reflection :: now that i'm officially confirmed for TA'ing next semester, I'm starting to plan things out! i've also started reviewing bio and ecology on Kahn Academy at the AP level :)

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Alice ; Mahjong Hime ☆ Good Smile Company