Hobonichi Techo Collage

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Hobonichi:  A Japanese company specializing in

planners and accessories, which encourages their

customers to "Make it your Life Book."

Techo:  Japanese for 'planner'.

Collage: A composition or design made by arranging

 and gluing materials to a background surface. 

My Techo is the A6 size English planner, so it's

roughly 4 inches by 6 inches, and the quotes on

each two-day spread are translated into

English. They are not necessarily 'motivational

quotes' but rather quotations from books, and

are often quirky or amusing.

I challenged myself for the month of August

to create a collage each day.

Scrapbook paper, envelope liners, doodles,

painted papers, scraps sent from blogging

buddies...they're all resources!

Our daughter asked us to volunteer at a Nascar

event, to benefit the Music Boosters at her school.

Hubby thought it sounded fun. Above, my pass for

the day. Our job was to help attendees on and off

of the Trams that went from the camping area to

the racetrack. We met lots of happy people from

many different places, including Canada, England,

Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ohio.

Since I dressed for sun protection and comfort,

my appearance that day was very odd, especially

with the addition of the red vest we were required

to wear!  (as my 'selfie' cartoon clearly shows)

The open-air Trams had chains or ropes

as 'guardrails' at the end of each row of seats,

fastened with caribiners.  I found that when you are

trying to be efficient and quick, that is when you

become the most clumsy at unfastening a

caribiner! (I don't think I will ever be a rock climber)

I had taken a backpack with drawing supplies,

but we were kept busy all day, so no chance

to sketch!

When someone comes up and stands beside you and blocks
your view, you might end up with 'half' a person. Can you
spot her?

Always interesting times when we visit the daughter

and son-in-law.  Daughter plays in a praise band

at her church, and they also are 4-H advisers.

So we went to a small-town parade and a barbecue

fund-raiser on Saturday, and got details about

the planning for the 4-H booth at the Fulton

county fair.  I expect we will go to the tractor pull,

and I will try to do some sketching of the 

animals again. Stay tuned...

I recently exchanged some Happy Mail with someone

in Washington state, and received a lovely package

stuffed with vintage ephemera from 

#forgottengems (on Instagram) The above collage

includes some of the goodies she sent. 

Linking up for T Tuesday, where we share a 

beverage related post with our hosts

Bleubeard and Elizabeth.  Last week there

were 10 coffee cups in my post (if you count the

one that was repeated a second time) but you

could actually have counted the magic potion 

as a beverage too, making 11! 

How many cups do you see this week?