A cheerful anthropomorphic alarm clock with a smiling face, red bells on top, and stick-like limbs grins widely against a soft sage green ground. Hand-drawn in a retro style with simple line work and warm colors, the clock holds a bandage in one outstretched hand while its other arm waves, embodying the optimistic notion that patience and time bring relief. Bound with 52 pages of 70lb paper, lined or unlined, behind an anti-scuff matte cover with wraparound artwork, made to order. Notes and sketches kept behind an independent artist's work, not a plain composition cover.