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I wanted to do this in a journal with a square punch, but I had lacked the latter when began. I have one now, and do both paper and digital. The idea is to use a square (or whatever shape delights you) punch to cut a piece out of something each day that is somehow commemorative, important, interesting, beautiful, somehow notable in some other way, or just because you like it, and glue it into your trashbook or journal. Items here are most recent to least, and though I wanted to do at least one a day, it's been more of a whenever thing - just like its paper cousin. Each has a date and a name/description.

And yes, around here we embrace the lo-fi aspect.

2025

My colouroftheyear.com colour: militant uprising - 2025 12 23 soda - 2025 12 22 exterior - 2025 12 22 fleurs - 2025 12 20 colours - 2025 12 13 sleighs - 2025 12 12 oh deer - 2025 12 21 mail - 2025 12 21 gingerbread - 2025 12 12 kinder - 2025 11 27 trinkets - 2025 11 24 brushes - 2025 11 24 box - 2025 11 24 prick - 2025 11 23 it was not - 2025 11 17 cinner - 2025 11 16 circlet - 2025 11 15 bird - 2025 11 15 secret shopper - 2025 11 05 giant zombie pez - 2025 11 04 five by five - 2025 11 04 kde - 2025 10 30 ghosts - 2025 10 30 beleaf - 2025 10 28 cart bleu - 2025 10 28 mint - 2025 10 27 ubuntu - 2025 10 25 meds - 2025 10 24 dinner - 2025 10 21 new phone - 2025 10 18 pantone - 2025 10 12 gourd - 2025 10 10 me - 2025 10 09 tyranny - 2025 10 08 beleaf - 2025 10 06 cdb - 2025 10 06 sumud - 2025 10 02 buzz - 2025 09 26 stool - 2025 09 25 apparatus - 2025 09 25 zen - 2025 09 25 several jokes are writing themselves - 2025 09 25 palipop - 2025 09 24 al sham market - 2025 09 24 light - 2025 09 24 volunteer - 2025 09 22 pinks - 2025 09 19 games - 2025 09 19 leave the gun, take the cannoli - 2025 09 15 liver - 2025 09 17 eddie's - 2025 09 15 cb - 2025 09 15 bussed up - 2025 09 11 station - 2025 09 11 cake - 2025 09 09 bites - 2025 09 08 leaf - 2025 09 06 shirts - 2025 09 05 chair - 2025 08 28 tbr - 2025 08 26 mallage - 2025 08 25 blues - 2025 08 25 workers - 2025 08 25 life hack - 2025 08 22 ottoman - 2025 08 22 canada - 2025 08 20 dojo - 2025 08 20 graffiti - 2025 08 19 fleurs - 2025 08 18 eire - 2025 08 17 desk - 2025 08 14 Just hanging around - 2025 08 13 s marks the spot - 2025 08 13 walkin' on the beaches, lookin' at the - 2025 08 13 If it's not sugar, what is it? - 2025 08 12 welcome - 2025 08 11 ginger - 2025 08 09 lime - 2025 08 09 From bottom to top:

- squares journal
- trashbook
- idealog: creative ideas/notes/etc
- notes from/about videos I watch
- Things to Be Happy About notebook
- samples of the insides of patterned envelopes I get in the mail - 2025 08 07 queue - 2025 08 08 hip to be square - 2025 08 07 punches - 2025 08 07 fruit stickers - 2025 08 07 borg pronouns - 2025 08 07 crush story - 2025 08 06 idealog - 2025 08 05 flow - 2025 08 04 I don't know why this idea appeals to me so much. Someone had wanted to include some chunky things in their journal but they were too chunky, so she added a printout of those items scanned. This is just a bunch of random crap that was sitting on my printer and desk - 2025 08 03 things to be happy about - 2025 08 03 you can have it all, my empire of dirt - 2025 08 02 a horse is a horse, of course, of course - 2025 08 02 macaron - 2025 08 02 cake - 2025 08 02 vejatubbles - 2025 08 01 tea - 2025 08 01 at an event for the people, the accessibility was trash, disposable - 2025 07 31 waiting for the show to begin - 2025 07 31 victoria regina - 2025 07 31 workers arts and heritage centre - 2025 07 31 peaches for palestinians - aiming to donate $1 for each peach consumed during the most wonderful time of the year (peach season) - 2025 07 31 sushi - 2025 07 31 octo - 2025 07 30 bird - 2025 07 30 urbanicity - 2025 07 29 o/~ Warm, pepperettes, join, the snack food set o/~ - 2025 07 28 closure - 2025 07 27 there's a hole in my heart-shaped falafel - 2025 07 27 optelec - 2025 07 26 corn pops - 2025 07 26 Canadian Froot Loops do not glow in the dark - 2025 07 25 One day, I woke up and realised I'd turned into my grandmother - 2025 07 25 palestine - 2025 07 24 cookies - 2025 07 23 yesterday's news, today's bruise - 2025 07 22 home is where the heart is - 2025 07 21 face - 2025 07 21 mural - 2025 07 21 signs - 2025 07 21 how much are those windows in the - 2025 07 21 acorn - 2025 07 21 breezes - 2025 07 21 tony - 2025 07 21 bacon - 2025 07 20 work - 2025 07 20 kettle - 2025 07 18 cdb - 2025 07 17 dojo - 2025 07 16 shocking - 2025 07 15 I guess those watercolour crystals are a bit ... flight capable - 2025 07 15 desk - 2025 07 14 shaker - 2025 07 13 goldfish - 2025 07 12 williams - 2025 07 11 you got to keep it pixelated - 2025 07 11 verre - 2025 07 10 postage - 2025 07 09 the wheels of justice grind slower without their hub caps - 2025 07 09 ty - 2025 07 08 cup - 2025 07 08 as the fire trucks do their business in a building across the road - 2025 07 07 families - 2025 07 07 peachy - 2025 07 06 in union is strength - 2025 07 05 A new variety store opened up in my neighbourhood last year, and if you made a purchase over a certain amount you got a gift bag of treats. The treats included ice cream, a t-shirt, random other things, and a bottle of pineapple pop (tasty!).

This is the gift bag.

Exciting? Perhaps not. But I like memory keeping, journalling, art, and other creative pursuits. - 2025 07 04


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