Here are the scraps of ephemera I saved in October.

Top row
- Film loading instructions for my new point-and-shoot film camera
- Dinosaur sticker from the doctor’s office
- Kodiak buttermilk flapjacks mix barcode
Second row
- COVID test packaing
- Scrap from the cover of the Portland Mercury‘s Halloween Issue
- A leaf whose brilliant colors did not hold the way I thought they would 🙁

Third row
- Mac and cheese packaging
- Packaging from a tool that I found on the ground and picked up because it looks like a mini CD and I think it’s so cute!!!
- Disposable camera packaging
Bottom row
- Blister kit tape
- Scrap of envelope my ballot arrived in
- Pop-Tarts packaging