Today I finally did the thing I'd been avoiding: fixed the spine on my journal. It's been driving me nuts for weeks — every time I opened the book I felt it. So today, glue everywhere, hands a mess, I just fixed it.

Kind of fitting, honestly. Thirty days of learning that messy isn't the enemy, and here I am ending this part of the challenge elbow-deep in glue, patching something back together instead of letting it bother me forever. Sometimes the "art" part of the day isn't a page at all — it's just finally doing the maintenance thing you've been stepping over.

Tomorrow: gelli plate, live, finishing this part strong.