I finished it and I am really happy with it! It was a hard fought battle, getting it where I wanted it, and it took me about three days to get from this:
To this:
And a little closer on the covers – that lady with the binoculars stamp is one I made with a stamp-making kit, 10+ years ago and it still works beautifully. All the rest of them, save the text circles, are Teesha Moore stamps.
Interesting to note that the cover quote is NOT by Gandhi, as is often claimed. He did say
“We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.”
which The Quote Investigator says in thematically similar – it has an interesting bit of info of where the quote might have come from, if you are interested.
Phew. Day 80 is in sight. This is day 78:
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