Ack, over halfway through 2024! I actually started this layout after August started because I had been busy with preparing for the cruise and had family stuff to take care of, but I’m pretty proud of what I managed to do. This month’s theme is One Piece because… of going on a cruise ship in the ocean at the beginning of August lol. But I had this planned before I knew I was going on a cruise, the reason being I had a ton of One Piece stickers leftover from the planner fan project a couple of years ago, and August is the last month of summer, and I associate summer with pirates more than say, fall or winter.
On the right hand side is a drawing I did of Princess Vivi in a casual outfit I found online. I cut out the bottom half of the drawing (cuz I messed up lol) and overlaid the drawing over this beautiful aqua and gold origami paper from Daiso. Then I added more stamps and stickers and some washi tape of My Melody (tanned lol) from Hawaii that I bought in Hawaii because the bright floral colors matched Vivi’s skirt and overall tropical vibe of One Piece (even though Hawaii was not a stop of historical pirates). The drawing is a bit not so good as usual, and I forgot to draw some islands and clouds in the background that I had planned to, but overall this layout makes me smile to look at. I was happy to use more stickers since I don’t know when I’d get a chance to use them next, the planner stickers were almost all much larger than the space allotted to them in the planner so I only used like 3.
This replaces the recipe review for Fridays since I didn’t end up buying the groceries I needed after I got back, and I didn’t want to take photos of boring brown food again, which is all I could make with what I still had. Let’s hope we survive until September!