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The Big Pink Book Prompt 11, Blue Doors

| August 31, 2026

Prompt 11 from the Big Pink Book is another one with stickers at the corners, along a theme. In the top left, there’s a dark blue birdhouse with silver snow on the roof and a bow at the top. At the top right, there are two shiny aqua squares above a light blue and white […]

Recap of the Big Pink Book, Prompts 1-10

| August 26, 2026

I’ve now posted the first ten prompts from the Big Pink Book, along with how I used each one. Here’s a quick recap post. A Map We Go Together Like … It’s Funny … Magical Books Flags and Leaves Fantasy Theme Weird Combination Zen? Stars and Rainbows Free Spirit Out of these ten prompts, I […]

The Big Pink Book Prompt 10, Free Spirit

| August 17, 2026

This week’s prompt from the Big Pink Book is a mostly open page with four stickers, one at each corner. Clockwise from the upper left, they are: A card from the Winnie the Pooh tarot deck corresponding to a card that isn’t found in any other deck that I’ve encountered. Its meaning is joy or […]

The Big Pink Book Prompt 9: Stars and Rainbows

| August 3, 2026

The next prompt in the Big Pink Book has a handful of small stickers, some washi tape, and a bit of text. The text reads “When it rains, look for rainbows. When it’s dark, look for stars.” The small stickers include three gold stars below the text. At the top left, there’s a Winnie the […]

The Big Pink Book Prompt 8: Zen?

| July 20, 2026

The eighth page of the Big Pink Book has some zen-like vibes. There are mandalas at the top left and bottom right corners, one in pink and gold and the other in black and white. At the top right is a cartoon frog doing yoga, and at the bottom left is a gold flower with […]

The Big Pink Book Prompt 7: Weird Combination

| July 13, 2026

Prompt 7 in the Big Pink Book is a little weird (and so is my photo of it, which cuts off the top of the page that has the number!). There are four stickers (technically five, but who’s counting?) in a vertical line. At the top, there’s a square sticker depicting a blue eye with […]

The Big Pink Book Prompt 6: Fantasy Theme

| June 29, 2026

The sixth prompt in the Big Pink Book is a mostly blank page. The stickers are an empty thought bubble with a green border at the top right, and a row of stickers across the bottom of the page. From left to right, they’re a rectangular sticker with a photorealistic blue sky and pink-ish clouds […]

The Big Pink Book Prompt 5: Flags and Leaves

| June 15, 2026

The next prompt in the Big Pink Book is another page with loads of room for writing. It has a small round sticker at top left that says “Here” (glittery yellow with purple text), a string of black and gold papel picado (perforated paper flags often seen at Day of the Dead events), and a […]

The Big Pink Book Prompt 4: Magical Books

| June 8, 2026

The next prompt in the Big Pink Book is a simple page with a single, larger sticker that depicts books (four stacked, one open, some plant clippings, and a purple liquid in a corked bottle. Of the books in the stack, only two have titles showing. The higher one is The Hymn of Transformation, while the […]

The Big Pink Book Prompt 3: It’s Funny …

| June 1, 2026

The third prompt in the Big Pink Book is another list-making prompt, this time themed around some puns and an intro of “It’s funny.” The puns, in the stickers to the right, are: “You are deer to me,” “Love you a latte!,” “That’s bananas” (with the bananas as an image), “No Prob-llama,” and “Donut worry. […]