I’ve been playing on Artfire with making collections and I thought I’d share some of the bookish goodies I found that would be perfect for the bookworms in your life, that is if you aren’t all shopped out from Cyber Monday. Ha.

Aren’t these great? You can click here to see the items in more detail.

Someone had asked me recently if I had a shop on Artfire and I do (my Artfire shop) although it’s not as stocked up as my Etsy shop. I’m still trying to decide actually if I want to have the same items in both shops or maybe have some differences between the two. I guess I can think on that as I continue to create.

Anyway, tomorrow I’ll try to share the list of books I’m thinking of asking Santa to bring me.

Who braved the shopping malls this weekend? Not us. We did go book shopping though and that’s always fun. I had coupons for Borders and I also wanted to check out the stock at Half Price Books so here’s what I found.

At Borders after enjoying a vanilla latte and reading some magazines I spent a good bit of time jotting down titles I want to check out later (I’ll have to share those in another post) and I then I looked for The Company of Liars by Karen Maitland but they didn’t have it. I was in the mood for a historical so I was really bummed out when I couldn’t find that one.

I had a coupon though and I was determined to buy something and then I saw The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver. Oh I love her writing so I quickly grabbed this one and I was about to get going but then I also saw Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier and well I didn’t want to leave it behind either so I took both.

Then it was off to Half Price Books where my husband found some German mystery/crime books and he was very excited about those. I was able to find a couple of great bargains on old vintage books. These are books I tear up and use in projects. Yes, I do damage to books sometimes but I also try to give books a new life so I don’t feel so bad about that.

A bit of a sidenote on book projects and crafting in general, I was looking through Amazon and there are at least four books coming out next year on bookbinding and art journaling that I must have. I showed them to my husband so I hope he paid attention. Hee-hee.

Alright I hope you all have a wonderful week ahead. I’ve finished a couple of books recently so I want to write some reviews this week. For now, I’ve just started The House at Riverton by Kate Morton and am wondering what took me so long. Great so far.