Monthly installment of What Grinds My Gears.

I was just looking over my old posts and realized that last month I posted about what really grinds my gears, and just today I happened to talk about this for an ongoing joke on the book board.


Inspiration struck - let's make this a monthly thing. Today I'll just C&P from the board:


You know what really grinds my gears? When people ask to be spoiled for a book. Especially if they are going to read it, but don't want to be rushed through it - they want to know what happens so they can read it slowly. WTF!?

If you like a book, read it! If you are reading it really fast, it is a sign of a GOOD BOOK. Re-read it after to catch the little things you missed the first time! That is the beauty of the re-read!

You know what really grinds my gears? When someone actually spoils the books for said people. I have no words.

You know what really grinds my gears? When someone reads a chapter and says 'this is really slow, is it going to get better?' Especially when it is a book that tons of people are raving about. No, it sucks, but we all pretend to love it.

You know what really grinds my gears? When someone complains about a book, and is fighting to keep reading it, and is arguing about how they don't get/agree with different parts of the book. Then stop reading it! No one is holding a gun to your head, for christ's sake!

On second thought, let's hope this won't be a monthly thing, and that people stop being dumb. I know, I know, it's asking a lot ;-)

She's crafty - and she's just my type.

A little while back on the book board everyone went crazy over DIY bookmarks. This link was posted, and I fell in love. I finally got around to making one myself a week or so ago.

Here is the finished product!

I used some ribbon I had bought for our wedding (although I never actually used this one lol) and scavenged for buttons. At first I thought that would be totally easy, because I have about a 5.5 billion buttons from various clothes over the years. Turns out they are all tiny. ::boo hiss:: So I stole some from my mom instead lol. I did find some teal thread among my button collection, so I used that to stitch on the buttons, and the star cutout from the middle:

I used some of my scrapbooking papers and things for the part in the middle, and found the quote 'Reading is like a discount ticket to everywhere.' I found it appropriate, since I totally escape into my books :) I stitched those on with the teal as well.

For the other end, I stitched my initials in with the remaining teal thread.

Voila! I am very pleased with it, but now I am so afraid to damage it, that I am afraid to use it in my books! I have been using it, but very gingerly ;-)