Theme Thursday Challenge - Bookmarks

This week the Theme Thursday challenge is bookmarks. Make a bookmark. It can be cut and glued, digital, whatever you feel like. Seeing as I haven't been able to participate the past couple of weeks I decided to a make two. So, here they are. I could have kept going, they are always so much fun to make and use. I often leave one in the restroom of the local library for someone to find.

Book Marks

These are bookmarks I made for me. Yes, just for me. Something pretty to mark the place in the books I am reading. Something totally frivolous just for me.
One of the yahoo groups was having a bookmark swap that I was unable to commit to. I decide to use the last bit of scrap from the sheet I cut my journal page and two 4 by 4's. It was the perfect size to make into a bookmark. Plus the backgrounds for both sides were already finished.
I rarely make anything for just me. I think that is why our journal pages are so important and creative. They are just for us. This is part of my 2009 thing - make more things that I would want - that I think up. I am always making stuff for swaps. It seems that by the time I get all of that finished there is very little time to do what is in my head. Consequently my swap participation will probably go way down. As I finish out commitments I am not going to take on any new ones. I feel like I need to feed the Muse in my head for awhile. Challenge myself. Does anyone else feel like swaps and challenges has taken over your art work? Maybe I just need to find more balance in my life.