The Bookmark Stash....

Bookmarks

You would think this would be a safe topic for the 

Artists Play Room Challenge

especially as Jen chose it in honour of Phantom Steve

and our reading challenge

which I am still winning if you were wondering...

it seems safe enough

not normally associated with angst

you don't often read about book mark trauma

or see them on a banned list somewhere

or plastering a wanted poster for various crimes

but in our house they are a slightly controversial object...

I may 

on occasion

be known to acquire stray bookmarks

now some picky souls may say that I in fact steal them

but steal is an ugly word

personally I prefer pilfer

pilfer is a cracking word isn't it

I feel that any bookmark within the confines of our home 

are actually a shared resource

and this drives Phantom crazy

usually because they are her book marks that are being shared

but it is actually her fault that I have developed this bad habit

I used to use any old scrap of paper that was handy

which inevitably led to some unfortunate accidents 

concerning school permission slips

not that they couldn't be hastily taped back together

or on one memorable occasion when the tape had gone walkabout

a somewhat punk-esque stapling back together

which I thought was quite creative and funky

but has led to Phantom holding onto all slips 

and only presenting them to me with a pen at the last minute

and then whisking them back into her school diary and safety

so now I am reduced to acquiring anything that isn't tied down

Phantom hides her stash

and I have no clue where it is

she only uses ones that she knows I don't like

like those metal ones

or ones with tassles

or pink ones

which I always think make books smell oddly like musk

and yes I know that is mad

but I was the victim of a terrible musk incident when I was a child

and I have smell flash backs at the sight of anything even musk pink coloured

ever since

or more often than not she has now taken to using a folded post it note

her current reading pile is a veritable pile of bookmark rubbish

and yes we both have piles like that on the go at any one time

and we are as bad as each other at reading 10 books at once

which leads to huge lack of bookmark issues

so now I use iTunes cards

yellow scrap paper

and

one rather tired old ribbon and bead one

which always gets caught up in the cover and makes my pile unsteady

it is criminal what I have to put up with

all because my beloved daughter won't share...

but in the spirit of setting an example for the little sod

I have made some bookmarks to share with my blogger friends

and if you would like one I will send it to you

of course if more than nine of you want one

then I will have to do the random draw palaver

but lets deal with that if it comes to that

just leave me a comment and let me know you would like one

and I will contact you to get addresses etc...

and show Phantom Steve how it is done

maybe she will open up her bookmark stash

not likely

but I can dream....xx


Update....
 I have made extra bookmarks 
so don't stress if you aren't in the first nine...xx

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