The Teapot Tuesday challenge this week is "your favorite time of day." My favorite time is anytime I can grab a book and escape into another world for a few minutes. I pretty much read all day long as part of my job, but it's not the same as walking into a good story. My card features a digi image of a girl reading (and I still like to lie on my tummy and read like that). I don't know the source of the sentiment (which is an unmounted red rubber one), but it's quite lovely -- A book is like a garden carried in a pocket. I wanted to keep the card mostly black and white, so the embellies are black label tape of the alphabet and a tiny pearl on the dog-eared top corner (And no, I don't dog-ear my books, do you?)
Date: Friday, June 2, 2023 GMT Views: 261
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Registered: April 1, 2012 Location: Rogers, AR Posts: 28964
Fri, Jun 02, 2023 @ 1:51 PM
I love reading too!!! This card is so cute!! Love that image!!!
------------------------------ Jan 'Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ'. Philippians 1:6
Registered: August 15, 2007 Location: Twin Cities MN Posts: 50761
Fri, Jun 02, 2023 @ 1:59 PM
Beautiful!, cute image! I'm a bookie, too...have to have a book going at all times. I do not earmark books...I faithfully use a bookmark. I love to collect them from trips I'm on or if someone I know travels...I'll tell them to bring me one.
Registered: March 13, 2011 Location: Langley, B.C. Canada Posts: 32126
Fri, Jun 02, 2023 @ 2:56 PM
The dog ear is an excellent touch on your lovely card, Sandy. I would only use it on a card though, not on a book. I have tons of bookmarks and tons of books too. I remember reading on my tummy on a blanket in various parks I have been in over the years! Wonderful card!
Registered: January 8, 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 40445
Fri, Jun 02, 2023 @ 8:03 PM
Sandy, this is such a sweet card depicting your love of reading! The digi image is terrific and I do like how you ‘dog eared’ one corner. I love reading and treasure books and always use a bookmark, of which I have quite a collection ~
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Registered: July 27, 2007 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 132020
Fri, Jun 02, 2023 @ 11:38 PM
I enjoyed your write-up and really like the card. No dog-eared books here, but I usually rely on memory rather than bookmarks. One time we were moving house and we're getting a removal man on account of the piano. He came to give a quote, and before he'd even got to downstairs which is where most of our books were, he was already asking what we did with them all. What a silly question, I thought. I will happily reread books I have enjoyed.
Registered: February 23, 2016 Location: El Paso, TX Posts: 23033
Sat, Jun 03, 2023 @ 12:31 PM
The first thing that caught my eye on this card was the dog-ear on your main panel - that made me giggle and while I never ascribed to that, I know plenty of people who did. I was a voracious reader and read my way through MANY shelves at the public library over the years. This is a super card and fab sentiment.
------------------------------ Linda aka Bubbles
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Registered: February 27, 2007 Location: LaCrosse, Wisconsin Posts: 39881
Mon, Jun 05, 2023 @ 3:47 AM
My daughter asked me if I could purge my books before moving....who raised you, I wanted to ask. i know she's only being helpful but....I am getting rid of a few but it's not going to make much difference. One thing I found is a Tolkien calendar from 1975, the year I was married. Yes, even back then, big Tolkien fan. Not sure why I saved it. Anywho, your card is delightful. I will confess to maybe dog earing a book page in my time but no more.
------------------------------ Jean Bean the Dancing Queen "You can play a shoestring if you're sincere." -John Coltrane