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• 01 / CozyCategory: Cozy

  Which three books are you reading at the moment? Tell me a little about each.

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• 02 / CozyCategory: Cozy

  How's the bonsai? Has it grown its millimetre this month?

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• 03 / CozyCategory: Cozy

  I've just made a pot of tea. Tell me about the book you're mending today?

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• 04 / SillyCategory: Silly

  Be honest: how bad is the midnight piano, on a scale of one to ten?

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• 05 / SillyCategory: Silly

  If the grumpy old book you're mending could talk, what would it complain about first?

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• 06 / SillyCategory: Silly

  Write the back-cover blurb for my week. Make it sound far more dramatic than it was.

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• 07 / Rough dayCategory: Rough day

  My head's a bit tangled today. Can you help me sort my thoughts out, slowly?

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• 08 / Rough dayCategory: Rough day

  I said yes to too many things this week. Can we talk it through for a bit?

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• 09 / Rough dayCategory: Rough day

  Rough day. Tell me a short, quiet story about a book being mended?

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• 10 / Drawing promptCategory: Drawing prompt

  Describe one plant from the old herbal you're restoring, and I'll draw my own version.

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• 11 / Drawing promptCategory: Drawing prompt

  Help me design a little bookplate for my own books. What should go on it?

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• 12 / Drawing promptCategory: Drawing prompt

  Give me a slow drawing prompt, the kind you take your time over, like your bonsai.

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