Bookmarks

What's not to love about bookmarks?  They come in a vast array of styles and colors.  They are another form of self expression, they keep your place in a book and they save any book from the crime of, GASP, dog earred pages (que Psycho music)!!

I use bookmarks diligently, really is anyone surprised?  Yes, my bookmark use goes under the category of Ang's book quirks, cute not weird remember.  I am not kidding when I say I still have bookmarks in very good condition from when I was in junior high.  For those of you keeping count that was 20 years ago!!  and yes, I do use them fairly regularly. 

I love to find bookmarks that go with the content of my books.  I read so many themed mystery series and finding the perfect bookmark to match the theme is really kind of fun.  For instance, I read a few series that have a food theme, the cupcake bakery series, the coffeehouse series, a catering series etc.  So for those books I have a bookmark with cupcakes on it.  For my China Bayles herbal series I have a watering can bookthong.  For my James Rollins action adventure reads I have a Davinci Code bookmark...you get the picture.  It's gotten to where it actually bothers me if my bookmark doesn't fit the book (remember cute not weird!!) but I can't always find what I am looking for but I found a solution for my problem...

One of my other  hobbies is needlecrafts, specifically cross stitch.  I have found a wonderful book of bookmark patterns and I have every intention of making most of the bookmarks in that book.  And the beauty of cross stitch creation is, I can always create my own if I can't find a pattern I like!  The only problem is, to stitch the bookmarks I have to put down the book...dilemma!!  I'll have to be sure to post pictures when I finally get one completed, until then...

Happy Reading!