Y’all know how much I love books. It’s probably no surprise that our public library is one of my FAVORITE hangouts. I usually visit once a week or so bringing home and returning all kinds of things. Biographies are probably the most common visitors but I also enjoy cook books, sewing instructions, garden plans, fiction, oh my goodness, you name it!
Sometimes, it is disappointing to find the borrowed book will have bent pages. A patron must have turned down the corner and creased the page instead of using a book mark.
Sad, but true. 
My tiny contribution toward solving the problem is leaving a book mark in the ones I return. Here’s a quick, easy way to make some!
Take a look at this pretty birthday card I received this year! As much as I would love to keep every single one, there just isn’t enough storage space in my old rock farmhouse, but I don’t want to throw it away either. What to do? 😉
I whip out this gadget. ‘Not sure what it’s called, but it makes nice straight cuts.
The pretty parts of the birthday card are cut into strips, making sure there is no writing on the back, of course! 😉
Somewhere in the middle of this project, the blade of my gadget got dull and tore one of the book marks. Scissors were used to finish the rest of the cuts.
Here are the ones I was able to create with one card. Aren’t they pretty?
One lovely birthday card becomes four beautiful book marks. My tiny gift to our public library.
😉 -Marci
