A while back, Jennifer at  The Literate Housewife Review had a drawing,  to send handcrafted bookmarks (made by none other than herself!) to 25 lucky recipients out of all those who entered the draw.  One person never responded by sending an address, so Jennifer had to do a call for a drawing for Recipient #25.  I entered that chance, and won!  I felt like the wild card who gets in the Super Bowl .

Yesterday, I received two bookmarks in the mail from Jennifer.  How exciting! 

Here are how they look (wish I had a professional-quality camera, but I don’t, so just know they look better in real life):

In case you can’t read the words next to the hand-drawn bicycle, it says:  “Delight in Life”. 

I don’t currently have any books to read (with the kids finishing school this Friday, the last few days have been so busy) except for a bed-time book on how to interpret dreams (which, ironically or not, makes me very sleepy after reading  just a few pages).  But I have two I need to start and finish soon–”Anthem”  for the Martel-Harper Challenge and “Shanghai Girls” by Lisa See which is an advance reading copy.  Can you guess which bookmark is going to be used for which book?

Don’t you think the ribbon and flowers goes very well with “Shanghai Girls”?  And isn’t it funny that this ancient paperback of “Anthem” is almost as small as the “Delight in Life” bookmark?

Thanks again, Jennifer for being so generous, and making these bookmarks for all of us lucky winners.  I look forward to using them again and again.

I’m going to start “Anthem” tonight–since it’s a small book, it won’t be long before I blog about it.

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