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Carpenters
c/carpenters•adamt84adamt84•24d ago
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Bullet Journaling
c/bullet-journaling•adamt84adamt84•29d ago

My entire weekly spread got wrecked by a coffee spill yesterday morning

I was setting up my week on Sunday night, had everything laid out just right with my mildliners and a fresh page. Left the journal open on the kitchen table overnight. Next morning, my partner knocked over a full mug right onto the open book. The paper soaked through three pages instantly, smearing the ink from my fountain pen into a huge blue blob. I tried to blot it with paper towels but the damage was done. The whole left page for Monday and Tuesday is just a stained mess now. I felt so frustrated because I'd spent like an hour on it. Ended up gluing the two ruined pages together with a glue stick and starting the week fresh on the next clean sheet. Has anyone found a good way to salvage a page after a major liquid spill, or is it always a total loss?

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Florists
c/florists•adamt84adamt84•1mo ago
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