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If you go to my blog, I've popped a link to the blog where I got the idea. There's a great tutorial on how to make them. They don't take long - as little as 5-10 minutes each if you go for very plain. The time is only taken deciding how to decorate them. I used a patterend corner punch to cut the corner off mine so that the corner of the page pokes through, then patterned scissors for different edgings. After that it's a case of stickers and decals. As long as they're flat, they won't damage your pages at all.

Here are another two I threw together this afternoon.

The book itself, once shut, should be sufficient to keep it in place. It's shaped like a flattened cone so it hooks right onto the corner of the page on both sides. You can make them bigger or smaller as you like. The two I made are both from 4" squares which is a pretty good size.

You read my mind, Chrissy - I'm thinking of making one to add to all the books I give at Xmas and birthdays - LOL!

I made two page-corner bookmarks today as an experiment and I rather like how they turned out. These are my first attempts, but I plan on doing more with different decorations. And in case anyone is wondering, they are being modeled on my copy of Bleak House by Charles Dickens. I figure this would be the perfect alternative for all those people who keep turning down the corners of their pages. Instead of turning them down, you pop something pretty on them and your pages don't get damaged.

Oh, do it, DO IT! What a fab name!

I've now merged the two threads for ease of reference.

It's actually a variegated thread, so no colour changes involved at all. As a result, I started and finished stitching it all in the same day and then assembled the page before going to bed.

The first in my Quotes Collection. I'm designing each of these quotes mini samplers myself and then putting them all together in a kind of scrap book. This first one reads "Curiouser and curiouser!" cried Alice... - Alice's Adventures n Wonderland by Lewis Carroll It's stitched on white 18-count aida in Anchor 1375 (single strand throughout).

Personally, I don't like condensed books - they make me feel like I'm not getting the full story (which is exactly what's happening - LOL!), but I know of others who love them. Quite why they like them, I don't know, but they do!

Went to the in-laws' yesterday and my lovely MIL showed me a HUGE pile of cross stitch mags she had dating back to 1991! She then said I could take them home to have a look through if I liked. She wants them back, of course, but she said she's in no hurry and if there's any patterns I like to feel free to use them. Spent yesterday evening going through some of them and there are some great designs (she even has the first few issues of Cross Stitcher Magazine!). I still have plenty more to flick through yet too. Ooh, and to top it all, she said I could keep the cover kits - how great is that?! Even if I don't like the designs that were originally with them, I can always use the pieces for other projects. It's so great to have a nice MIL with whom you share an interest!

I was SHOCKED at Keita's appalling lack of sportsmanship that resulted in Kaka unfairly being sent off. Ivory Coast should be ashamed of their team and Keita should be penalised for it and a public apology made to Kaka and the Brazilian team. The damage, however, is done - there's no way Kaka will be allowed to play next game. If this isn't an argument for the use of cameras in football, I don't know what is! It takes just a few seconds to get the footage checked (I would also dearly love goal line technology brought in for the same reason). The Ref should have spoken to his Linesmen - that's what they're for! Poor call from the Ref - but not even the first one he made in that match. The handball goal that he allowed, accepting the story that the ball went in off the chest was ridiculous. That Ref should be disallowed from reffing any other games in the World Cup - he's as much as disgrace as Keita!

My Mam's a big reader and I was always encouraged to read. In fact, due to my Mam, I could read very well long before I went to school.

Narnia every time.

I'm busy reading this one at the moment and enjoyhing it.

Here's an author for you - H Rider Haggard. He wrote loads of adventure stories, mostly set in Africa. Check out the Allan Quartermain books, starting with King Solomon's Mines; also the Ayesha novels, starting with She. Another one to try might be Anthony Hope. The Prisoner of Zenda (the first Ruritania book) is set in a semi-exotic locale. Swashbuckling adventure ahoy!

FOr me, 13 has never been an unlucky number. In fact, I think I purposely made it my "lucky number" as a kid simply because everyone else I knew thought it was unlucky. I was trying to undo the superstition and instead gave myself a new one - LOL! I always salute magpies and say, "Good morning/afternoon/evening, Mister Magpie. How's Mrs Magpie and all the little Magpies?". Another couple for me: - When I'm stirring something (coffee, tea, cake mixture, whatever), I always stir clockwise, but then I have to stir anticlockwise the same amount of times. - When I'm doing my cross stitch, if a design is asymetrical, I have to adjust it to make the two halves match (this is if it's a pattern rather than a picture, of course!).

Season 3 is only playing inthe US just now.

Sounds like a very "blonde" character This one's fab! I think this one works rather well.

Pre-Xander, hubby and I used to listen to an episode in bed every night.

That phal recipe sounds GORGEOUS! I adore hot curries.