A little late but here is my November 2026 monthly calendar spread! This month’s theme was chosen at the beginning of the year, about one of my favorite things, books and libraries! Little did I know…
I wanted a warm and cozy color scheme to match with the rose library holographic stickers I bought a few years ago from Diwatacrafts, so everything is red and brown and yellow. On the left side, we have a weapons washi tape from Torakhrow on instagram, plus brown lace washi tape from Daiso. I used alcohol marker to stamp a teapot (from Michaels) because you know, November is finally getting colder and imagine having a cup of hot tea while reading a book. I also decorated with gold foil flower stickers from Daiso and the kawaii Korean stationary store at the mall. The gold foil teapot, teacup and sugar bowl are by https://www.instagram.com/saiyre.art/. The blue and red medieval illuminated script stickers are by https://www.instagram.com/jaqrabit/. Finally, the Victorian Romance Emma sticker is by Otakupup, and I suppose the characters aren’t reading in the sticker, but it’s mentioned in the manga by Kaoru Mori, plus I never see fanart for this so I just wanted to use it asap lol. On the following page I made a collage with a paper doily I colored with a khaki yellow marker, and more of the gold foil stickers and the rose library stickers from the previous page. I spotlighted the Wishbone literature sticker by Kiriska.com because it’s so true lol. And the Spicy Book Club sticker I got for free at a zine fest. Finally, I drew myself reading an actual book because Ao3 was down on October 30th for 4 weeks!!! And that is why I photographed my spread on top of four actual books I got recently: Interior Chinatown for book club, The craft of Creating Manga by Hirohiko Araki (mangaka of Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure) to prep for the doujinshi I want to create, Transformers comic compilation of the recent run, and Wife Comes First, the spicy danmei novel I started lol. Wishing the ao3 volunteers nothing but the best, as they are doing good work to archive fiction created by fans facing an increasing hostile environment of plagiarism and uncreativity and stifled expression. Let’s show love to fanfic authors as they don’t receive much feedback, and let’s never take for granted the creative arts or the people making them despite everything.
Overall I kinda like this spread despite the fact that there was no centerpiece artwork from myself. Now on to surviving a busy couple of months and ending the year bright!