Did you know, that you can make an AWESOME journal for your adventures ALL ON YOUR OWN from a cereal box and paper/scraps that you likely have at home/can get from friends or family/you may find around your environment?
They’re called Junk Journals and they’re my entire life.
Im gonna do my best to walk you through how to make one! First, get you a mini cereal box! I use boxes from those cool multipacks of cereal that you can find at Walmart!
And then cut it out so it looks like this! (I already had one cut, so I’m gonna use that)
That “nutrition facts” side is gone become your spine!
Next, find some paper to use to decorate your cover! I was lucky enough to be gifted a bunch of scrapbooking paper, so I’m gonna use that, but you can also use newspaper, paper from books/magazines, junk mail, napkins, paper towels (excellent texture), etc!
Go ahead and glue that paper to your box (to cover the cereal logo) and cut it out! It’ll look like this;
Next you need to find your pages! Again these can be anything! Junk mail, envelopes, receipts, food wrappers, magazine/book pages, scrapbook paper, computer paper, construction paper, ANYTHING. Just grab a whole bunch!
You’re gonna want to fold them in half and cut them to the size of one of the covers of your box, and layer other pages inside of it to make your signatures, like this!
Each signature should be about 7-10 pages. You don’t want them too thick, otherwise the inner pages start sticking out when folded in half. You’re gonna have a LOT of these signatures, as you wanna fill the area in the spine as best as possible. For this one I’m using 7 page signatures. Here’s a pic to show just how much paper you’ll need
Each of these signatures are 7 pages, 6 signatures have only filled about half of the spine, so I’ll need probably 6 more.
Next you gotta figure out how you want them in your journal. Personally, I like to sew them into the spine, but you can also keep them in the spine with rubber bands, so you can have removable pages! (Be weary that rubber bands may break over time! So you may want to always keep extra bands near it to replace in case one snaps. This is why I prefer sewing them in) I find it best to look up on YouTube how to sew in signatures, just because having someone walk you through it where you can see what they’re doing is easiest. If you can’t access YouTube, there’s plenty of text tutorials on how to sew in signatures online, or you can message me! I’m not gonna go too into detail, but here’s the jist;
Okay so I’m a forgetful gob and I hecken forgot to take pictures as I was going along kahshshshsh
But essentially, I sewed in the pattern similar to the one I drew. The dots are where the needle goes all the way through to the back. I also like to use rubber band as an extra mode of support but you can do one or the other. I also like both cuz I can tuck stuff in em between the pages. Since I didn’t take more pictures; I’d really recommend looking up a how-to on YouTube or w/e if my badly drawn diagram isn’t clear enough (heh sorry about that)
Next, I glue fabric to the spine. It spruces it up quite a lot and holds the rubber bands in place, plus it give more support to the spine since there’s gonna be a lot of strain on it.
Only 10 photos per post, so I gotta post this and reblog it with the rest.
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Want to know what’s up with the old Mansion in Twilight Town? Well I figured it out! So sit back as I pull together a shit ton of red dots that hopefully come together to mean something.
First is the facts we know from kh2 and Days. We know Roxas formed as a Nobody in front of the Mansion. The wiki also says “all new human form nobodies form in Twilight Town- in front of the manor gates.” I know it’s a thing from Days but I don’t have time to find the exact place. We know the mansion is old… and abandoned. Not big shockers I know. We know there’s a legend of a ghost girl and in the data Twilight town that girl was Namine. We know Diz and Riku hid Sora there for a year while Namine tried to put together his memories. We know Diz used the computer in the mansion to put Roxas in a data Twilight Town. We know there are more pods than would be needed to heal Sora, Donald, and Goofy. And finally the biggest piece. We know from a description in KH2 that the pods “Have been used before”.
Now we get to start putting all these facts together! First thing is the “all human nobodies form in twilight town” is a lie. We know 1-8 formed in Radiant Garden now turned in Hallow Bastion. We see Roxas form in front of the Mansion so that’s at least true. But who does that leave to be “all human nobodies”? why Demyx, Luxord, Marluxia, and Larxene of course! All four of them showing up at the same place from the past makes sense. It explains why Xigbar and also Xemnas know for a fact Luxord was from Daybreak even if Xigbar doesn’t remember him.
Now I theorized these four woke up in Twilight town months ago. Back then I assumed they were kept in the “used” pods from the fight with Brain countless years ago until now. But there’s something else in that basement. Something Diz uses to make the first Datascape we ever see in the series. There’s an old ass computer built into the walls of the basement, with enough memory storage to hold an entire Twilight town and virtual versions of the citizens. Diz was in hiding with Riku for a year they wouldn’t have had enough time to build the computer and the pods while also being in hiding. There just wasn’t enough time. Now I don’t doubt Diz made the Data Twilight. But he managed to do that with a preexisting computer that is also hooked up to the pods the four nobodies just happened to come out of.
Now everyone knows the Daybreak town in khux is a data world. That it was used to hold all the Dandelions that needed to survive the first keyblade war. Basically a digital bomb shelter while the keyblade graveyard was literally nuked by kingdom hearts. We know the original Daybreak town is underwater thanks to kh3. So where’s the physical computer that’s storing all of Data Daybreak?
The computer in the mysterious mansion is the mainframe for data Daybreak town. And Diz used the digital world making software to make the Digital Twilight town. The pods are there to reform the Dandelions out of Data. When Brain and Lauriam fought Lauriam’s group got sent out of the simulation early. A group that included Ventus. Ventus who was “found” by Xehanort as a keyblade wielding kid with amnesia.
Fast forward a few years and Xemnas is trying to make kingdom hearts with his organization. But he needs a keyblade wielder to do that. So where does he go? Back to where Xehanort got Ventus. Unfortunately he gets a keybladeless amnesiac lazy bastard who hates fighting. But hey there’s still three other people in those pods. Surely one of them will wake up with their keyblade. No, no they did not. So now Xemnas is just stuck with four more teenagers that grow up into rebellious young adults. And when he finally finally gets a keyblade wielder it’s an exact copy of Ventus. It’s like when there’s a two rare metal banner in khux and you get the first rare metal on your first draw. You then keep trying for the second rare metal and you spend all your gems. Only for on the last draw to give you a second copy of the rare metal you already have and not the second one you’ve been spending all your gems to try and get.
So yeah the Twilight town mansion is so old Master Ava was able to set up the Daybreak simulation in it’s computer. The pods were made for a mass exodus once the worlds were safe from the keyblade war. The rest of the Dandelions and possibly Brain are still in there. And I have a feeling someone knows the password to release all the other Dandelions. Meaning the next “war” might be a little bigger than 20 people.
Have some random Linked Universe headcanons that I have come up with but don’t always follow 100%
• Four paints his nails to prevent him from biting them, he also paints them to reflect whatever color is most prominent that day and if it’s a pretty equal split he’ll alternate each nail color.
• Wild will either run up stairs 3 at a time, or on all fours. there is no in-between
• Time is only a around 27-29, stress took a toll on his aging, which wouldn’t be that big of a deal if Warriors wasn’t 26 about to be 27 and dreads the day someone mentions his age and he gets labeled old man as well
• Wind doesn’t like alcohol, he thinks it tastes like perfume and just wants to seem more mature in grown up to the others, Time or Warriors will usually switch Wind’s drink for cider or pumpkin juice so he has something to drink.
• While the chain can all sing, they can’t all sing the same types of songs. Twilight can sing lullabies, Wind can do sea shanties, ect
• Twilight can lift and throw each member or the chain at least 6ft, this in includes Time wearing his armor, and the chain has no idea why he’s this strong.
• Magic has different types of scents, so the some members of the chain have scents when they use magic. Hyrule always smells like cinnamon after a battle, Four smells like clover flowers when he shrinks, Twilight smells like coffee and tea leaves after he turns back from his wolf form, Sky just the faintest hint of vanilla from hanging around Sun, and Legend smells like a spice cabinet from all the items he uses
• Hyrule lives in a Hobbit Hole and he’s got a small fairy garden out front( I will stand by this until I die)
• Warriors is used to braiding Artemis’s or Impa’s hair when he was stressed so now he braids Wild’s hair because it’s the only hair long enough for his standards.
• Sky likes to collect stationary things like quills, inks, and seals, but he’s got terrible handwriting so he spends hours writing the perfect letter even if it’s only two paragraphs long.
• When Time was Mask, he had a habit of calling the other commanders “Mom” like when you would call a teacher mom, he even called Wars “Dad” once, and the first time the go to Warriors’s Hyrule Time basically had to bite his tongue as to not slip up, he fails.
• All of the Links have freckles, some only have them on their arms and shoulders, some cover them with make up or aren’t visible due to scarring, and some just don’t care about them and just have them on their faces.
Keyblade Master Sakura (jk I don’t even go here)
Needed to smile so I drew some more Zootopia!Kingdom Hearts stuff. ;w;a
I hope it makes you smile too.
So ... yesterday the word was Champions, but due to certain situations I couldn't do any illustration, but I really wanted to draw Revali, so that's what I did. Follow me here and Thank you!