Saturday, 25 October 2025

Saturday 25th October - pages from my Commonplace Book

 Yesterday was busy (apart from arranging things on the shelves of my new little table). Today was... not busy... so here are some pages from.my last Commonplace Book instead of regaling you with the entirely uninteresting details of the day.


I'd noticed a lot of '3 ingredient cake' recipes or ssimilar, and when I looked, they all seemed to involve 'bisquick' or 'a box of white cake mix'... ingredients that I had no knowledge or experience of. So I researched... 

The next photo is something shared by a good friend. I don't know the original source.



I'm slowly reading 'Meditations for Mortals' by Oliver Burkeman;


This was a card from my son from a few years ago. Inside, the cat says 'is there anything you need pushed off a table or counter top you?'


Random quotes;


Random recipe (I haven't tried it) and a quote from a stitching blog I rate highly 


I've been writing in Commonplace Books off and on for a number of years, collecting all sorts scraps, and sometimes adding my own thoughts and opinions. I find it fascinating going through the old ones as it brings back memories of what I was reading and doing at the time.

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10 comments:

  1. Angela25 October 2025 at 20:19

    I have never understood why BisQuick is so popular in the USA. It hardly takes a moment to mix fat and flour together.

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  2. Granny Marigold26 October 2025 at 01:17

    I recently paged through some Commonplace Books I made in the past. At least 4 scrapbooks that bulged with things I had pasted in. I didn't actually know of anyone else who had made one. I'm quite thrilled to know that you have.

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    1. KirstenM26 October 2025 at 06:31

      I don't know of if any of my friends keep commonplace books. I first came across them from a book that John Julian Norwich created called 'A Christmas Cracker'. People have kept them for centuries.

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  3. Poppypatchwork26 October 2025 at 09:00

    I love the second image, it's very good.

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  4. Elizabethd26 October 2025 at 10:50

    What a perfect cat card!

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  5. jabblog26 October 2025 at 12:46

    I like the ten commandments for reducing stress.
    My commonplace book is very dull compared to yours - it's just quotations that appeal.

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    1. KirstenM26 October 2025 at 13:15

      Another commonplace book keeper! My earlier commonplace books seemed dull so I started being 'more inclusive '. Recently I've begun to print out copies of quotations etc to stick in. I also stick in half an envelope to keep postcards and similar in so I can see picture and message.

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