My kid's messy art table made me change my weekly spread

I was at the local library's craft hour last Saturday, and my 5 year old's glitter glue disaster got all over my open journal. Instead of getting mad, I saw how the colors mixed on my monthly log and it looked cool. Has anyone else found a happy accident that changed how they set up a page?

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owens.river2mo ago

Spilled coffee on my weekly to-do list once. The brown stain looked like a weird little mountain range, so I just drew a tiny forest around it. Now I leave a blank corner on purpose for "coffee art." My cat also walked across a wet ink page, left perfect paw prints. Traced them, turned it into a border. Messes make the best custom decorations.

spencerw722mo ago

My old boss in Seattle had a rule about keeping work papers spotless, and it drove me crazy. I get what you mean, @owens.river, about finding something cool in a mess, but for me a coffee stain just ruins the page. I need my lists to be clean so I can actually focus on what's written there. If my cat walked on it, I'd just have to start the whole thing over on a fresh sheet.