Witchy Bitch

calming brew

second piece for katsudon bang and @kevystel’s fic, ascent - mixing up a late night drink

Did you know, that you can make an AWESOME journal for your adventures ALL ON YOUR OWN from a cereal box and paper/scraps that you likely have at home/can get from friends or family/you may find around your environment?

They’re called Junk Journals and they’re my entire life.

Im gonna do my best to walk you through how to make one! First, get you a mini cereal box! I use boxes from those cool multipacks of cereal that you can find at Walmart!

And then cut it out so it looks like this! (I already had one cut, so I’m gonna use that)

That “nutrition facts” side is gone become your spine!

Next, find some paper to use to decorate your cover! I was lucky enough to be gifted a bunch of scrapbooking paper, so I’m gonna use that, but you can also use newspaper, paper from books/magazines, junk mail, napkins, paper towels (excellent texture), etc!

Go ahead and glue that paper to your box (to cover the cereal logo) and cut it out! It’ll look like this;

Next you need to find your pages! Again these can be anything! Junk mail, envelopes, receipts, food wrappers, magazine/book pages, scrapbook paper, computer paper, construction paper, ANYTHING. Just grab a whole bunch!

You’re gonna want to fold them in half and cut them to the size of one of the covers of your box, and layer other pages inside of it to make your signatures, like this!

Each signature should be about 7-10 pages. You don’t want them too thick, otherwise the inner pages start sticking out when folded in half. You’re gonna have a LOT of these signatures, as you wanna fill the area in the spine as best as possible. For this one I’m using 7 page signatures. Here’s a pic to show just how much paper you’ll need

Each of these signatures are 7 pages, 6 signatures have only filled about half of the spine, so I’ll need probably 6 more.

Next you gotta figure out how you want them in your journal. Personally, I like to sew them into the spine, but you can also keep them in the spine with rubber bands, so you can have removable pages! (Be weary that rubber bands may break over time! So you may want to always keep extra bands near it to replace in case one snaps. This is why I prefer sewing them in) I find it best to look up on YouTube how to sew in signatures, just because having someone walk you through it where you can see what they’re doing is easiest. If you can’t access YouTube, there’s plenty of text tutorials on how to sew in signatures online, or you can message me! I’m not gonna go too into detail, but here’s the jist;

Okay so I’m a forgetful gob and I hecken forgot to take pictures as I was going along kahshshshsh

But essentially, I sewed in the pattern similar to the one I drew. The dots are where the needle goes all the way through to the back. I also like to use rubber band as an extra mode of support but you can do one or the other. I also like both cuz I can tuck stuff in em between the pages. Since I didn’t take more pictures; I’d really recommend looking up a how-to on YouTube or w/e if my badly drawn diagram isn’t clear enough (heh sorry about that)

Next, I glue fabric to the spine. It spruces it up quite a lot and holds the rubber bands in place, plus it give more support to the spine since there’s gonna be a lot of strain on it.

Here’s the journal with the fabric on the spine, I decided to go ahead and glue the excess to the rest of the cover too, cuz I liked how it looked ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Next step?

DECORATE the pages! I haven’t decorated this one yet, but here’s some pages I have completed!

Have fun with it! Make tuck spots and hideaways. Add folders and envelopes and make tags and things that dangle. Decorate the covers and the spine and make it your own! Add things as you find them! Anything! Even candy wrappers! This is really the ultimate goblin journal!

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(TLDR RECENTLY DXED CANCER PATIENT AND FAMILY ARE IN SEVERE FINANCIAL STRESS)

This whole fuckshit started in july, when i was hit on my bike by an asshole speeding driver.

For a while before this I had noticed terrible migraines and ive had a history of petit mal seizures far beyond when i shouldve stopped having them, but my doctors brushed all this off as chronic migraine and brain damage and refused me mris or cat scans no matter how hard my mom pushed

Well after the accident, they had no choice. I got an mri and a cat scan. The doctors told me i was very lucky, i had a very mild concussion, and in passing they told me I had a small, benign brain tumor called a lipoma.

Basically there was a pocket of fat in my brain that shouldn’t be there, but wouldnt cause more problems than some headaches. Lipomas have no chance of going cancerous so i was very happy to hear this. However, a few weeks ago i received the worst news of my life

I came to the er after a fainting spell, one of many ive been having these past few months. I’ll spare everyone the gruesome details but i was given a cat scan and the drs had some very bad news. Far from a lipoma (in fact my dr wondered why i had been given that diagnoses in the first place), i had a meningioma in my arachnoid and dura mater, it would be near impossible to remove it all with surgery, and they had noticed growth in the tumor

This has lead to me being diagnosed with an extremely rare condition called malignant meningioma. I’m one of the lucky ones as it wsd caught early in my life and my tumor is particularly slow-growing compared to many other people with this condition.

While thats good for my overall prognosis, it also means many doctors are putting me on a back burner when it comes to treatments. Now that im 18 ive been able to schedule my own appointments which has helped some (my mother has severe cognitive deficits which prevent her from being a reliable help), but having to deal with a revolving door of neurologists, oncologists, immunotherapists, general practice, surgery consultations, and er visits, all while dealing with constant fainting spells, gradually worsening seizures, and general sickness from the treatments i have been given is an absolute beyotch. I’m currently fighting as my own advocate to be considered for experimental treatments at a local, highly rated cancer treatment center instead of the horrible hospital ive had to deal with as of late which is more concerned with accusing me of hysteria than with actually helping me

I’m blessed to have a boss who understands my struggle and acts as a second mother to me, so while my job is secure thru this journey, I’ve missed an incredible amount of hours from sickness. I’m the only working member of my family, and between transportation, lodging, all the medicines i need, and childcare for my special needs youngest sister when me and mom are away, money is incredibly tight. Weve visited two food banks this week and i had to scrounge up literal change so we could pay the phone bill just so there was a way to call 911 for me if needed.

While we will find a way to survive like we always do, anything at all would be appreciated because it’s hard as hell to focus on getting better when im already vomiting from constant financial stress

My paypal is [email protected] or paypal.me/godasiyo

Here’s some supah supah kawaii hospital pics for your time

And let me tell you it was delightful. It tastes like watching the leaves changing color and dancing in the wind. It tastes like picking out pumpkins and gourds and fresh apples at the farm up north. It tastes like witches and freedom.

I make it every year now and this year I walked in the house on the morning of October first with all the ingredients and shouted ‘FALL DRINK’ and my roommates were like ‘????’ so I made them Fall Drink and now every time they get home from work they’re like ‘Fall Drink pls?????’

Mothman!

Your a moth and a man

I said

MOTHMAN

MOTHMAN!

your pretty wings are so soft

when you 

flap

against

my

There’s no need for a frown

I said

MOTHMAN

Put that man on the ground

He’s so

FRIGHTENED

So high up in the air

Won’t you

Please

Put

Him

Down

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THE MAN WHO’S ALSO A

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