I recently had the Brooklyn Book Binder, a friend of Mark and mine, make me a custom photo album for all of my ballet photos. Ever since I started scrapbooking (yes I keep that a well guarded secret!), I have wanted to do a ballet album. A book of ballet, to me, deserves to be very classy though, not cheesy at all. I tossed around a few ideas in my head and soon realized, I wanted a book that was very unique. After looking around Maggie’s website and tossing a couple of ideas around, she and I came up with the idea of putting the pointe shoe ribbons into the cover. Maggie set to work and has shipped my book complete with Freed European Pink pointe shoe ribbon (the exact ribbon I used on my shoes)!
Here are a couple of pictures she sent to me:

Mark & I like going to B&N to get a good book every once in a while. Sometimes we’ll pick up one of those $5 books on the off chance that they are good. Many of them are. Some of them aren’t.

So my question to you is, how bad does a book have to be for you to stop reading it and start reading a new one? For me personally, I’m discovering that I will avoid reading because I don’t want to just give up. But I think I’m going to change that and perhaps with that I should start checking books out at the library instead. What do you think?

Random post: I know I own the book ‘The Red Shoes,’ but I have no idea where it is.

I posted about the book a couple years ago (wow my blog is getting old).� “Probably my favorite book of all time”� The only problem is, I can’t find the book anymore.� I may have let one of you borrow it.� I just can’t remember!� So if you have it, that’s fine, just let me know.

I finished the book already and so I am posting my follow-up review from my previous post.  Let me start by explaining that I’ve read another series of books on women of the Old Testament and I loved them.  I guess it reminds me sometimes how I should be living my life as a person, but also as a woman (an easy thing for me to overlook for some reason).  Scott noted that Heather thought it was a bit over the top and I could definitely see that.  I think many Biblical novels can seem this way.  You can’t pick this book up because you like Card.  You have to pick it up because you like that genre, which I do.  Sometimes I need a book to be exagerated as well because I’m not so great at reading analytically.  I hate being asked what I think the red cloth represented and such.  If it represents something, I want to be told (what I lack in the english department, I make up for in the math).
It was weird to read a book that had my name in it over and over again.  My name isn’t that common (at least this spelling), so it was something to get used to.  I also found myself looking for similarites between my life and the Rebekah of the book.  I know we all do this naturally, but I was doing it very actively for some reason.  The book has me thinking now of what I want to do with my life personally (not professionally) and I’ll let you know if I come up with any profound.  Right now I’m fine with the idea of having a family (someday – no worries fam.) and doing everything I can to support them.

I’m reading the next book in the series Rachel & Leah.  It will be interesting to compare these since it won’t have my own name in it anymore.

Saturday, Mark & I were out purchasing our new camera and we stopped at Barnes & Noble to pick up a good book for me. I’ve been spending most of my time wedding planning and web designing, so I needed a good distraction from it all. I found a couple books that I might like (Frank Peretti & C.S.Lewis books), but none of them looked amazing.

We were browsing in the religious fiction section and Mark noticed a book with two weird things about it. First, it was written by Orson Scott Card (sci-fi author for those unfamaliar with him). We were astonished that the same man who wrote Ender’s Game would write something in the religious fiction section (although the Ender series does have religious undertones). Second, the title was Rebekah. The book is Card’s elaboration of the historical Rebekah character in the Old Testament. I’ve always felt a little connected the character (not necessarily a good thing) since I have the same name; especially since my parents gave me the same spelling. There are 2 additional books (Rachel & Leah, and Sarah), but they only had Rachel & Leah. So now I have two great books to read. Once I finish Rebekah, I will post a review. So far it has been very thought provoking.