Books of Shadows

I've had reason to delve in my Books of Shadows recently. They are almost as prolific as my journals. My first book was an old address book I adapted, so the entries are alphabetical:

It proved to be too small, so I branched out into an art journal, starting with an entry about the winter solstice Downunder, adapted for the Southern Hemisphere...

I then treated myself to one of Michael O'Brien's Dark Ages books after a visit to his bindery in Oamaru. It's a signed numbered edition, #231:

This was soon filled, so I moved to an ENORMOUS old ledger with nearly 600 pages, which I am nearly half way through filling:

However, having participated in a number of "spell swaps" I found myself with a number of items that didn't fit in it easily, so when I found this in a market I felt it was perfect:

All the embellishments fit in without making the book bulge at the seams:

But I ran out of pages and had to branch out into this one as well:

I still have a couple of unfilled pages at the back of the art journal, so I've been completing them with things that don;t go with the current writing in my giant BOS:

Who knew that Books of Shadows would breed like that? Magickal....

June July Journals

As usual, I have multiple journals on the go! I've just finished my June mini journal...

but I've also got my "main" journal on the go...

not to mention my Hobonichi Techo...

You can never have too many journals! (Besides, it's a perfect excuse to buy stationery...)