As usual, I wanted to share some links from a few of my favorite crafty blogs. If you have a favorite crafty site or blog, use the Comments section below to tell us about it.

Crafty Bloggers This Week:

The Impatient Blogger - Sometimes it's about what we craft with our hands and sometimes it's about what we craft with our hearts. Margot talks about why our life is our most profound creation and why she's focused on crafting hope.

Stefanie Girard's Sweater Surgery - Fall leaves are the inspiration for a "Leaf it to Me" beaded ring.

Layers Upon Layers - Molly "Porkshanks" Friedrich is an assemblage and jewelry artist of extraordinary talent...with an extraordinary story to tell!

Crafty Princess Diaries - Stop the social networking insanity! Tammy gives you some tips on how to use them but not have them abuse your precious time.

Craftside-A behind-the-scenes peek at a crafty world -Ho-ho, uh, ho? Yes, the holiday's have hit at Craftside with free downloads of templates and pattern paper for a dimensional ornament card, a how-to for sculpting a squirrel and acorns, and a beaded flower. There are pictures from The Modern Mark Making Release Party and a fun little survey that gets you entered to win any craft book you like from The Quayside Publishing Group. Let those opinions fly!

Aileens's Musings -Check out Aileen's Mail Art from the heart tutorial and send your own surprise in the mail!

About Family Crafts - Would you craft with elephant poop? Learn more about how you can...

About.com Cross Stitch - Miss a few of the free patterns featured in August? Catch up.

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One of my many WIPs is a bookmark - one of about twelve I need to stitch. My sister asked me to make them for her to give as gifts. She even offered to pay me, but of course, she's family and I could never charge her for a few bookmarks.

My problem is that I want to get finished with them, but I am also concerned about burning out on the project. All the bookmarks are the same - the same pattern, the same color floss, the same fabric.

How do you avoid burnout? One of the obvious solutions is to do some work on other projects in between, but what else can I do?

I would love to hear your tips and suggestions on avoiding stitching burnout. Use the comments section below to share them.

Oh, and if you are wondering about what pattern I am using - it's the Teacup and Books Bookmark Pattern.

More on Bookmarks from About.com Cross Stitch:

• Free Bookmark Patterns
• Free Bookmark Patterns from Various Sites
• Easy Aida Bookmark Project

In the past few weeks, I have received some great submissions for the About.com Cross Stitch Photo Album. Be sure to check them out!

Latest Additions:

• Marty's Angel of Hope
• Christine's Ornament Photo
• Julie's Equine Pair Photo
• Julie's Irish Sampler Photo
• Bathing Beauty Photo
• Calla Lily Photo

Show us your Cross Stitch. Find out how to submit a photo in the About.com Cross Stitch Photo Submission Guidelines.

Add a comment or question about any of the photos in the Cross Stitch Forum where a folder is provided for this purpose. (If you are not already a member, sign up is free and easy.)

Each week, I share some links from some of my favorite crafty bloggers and this time they have all sorts of ideas to share from crafts for Grandparent's Day to a skateboarding snail. (As usual, I have included a link to About.com Cross Stitch for all you Cross Stitch purists.)

Do you have a favorite crafty site or blog? Use the Comments section below to tell us about it.

Crafty Bloggers This Week:

About Family Crafts - Did you know that September 7th is National Grandparents Day? Discover fun gifts you can start making today.

Aileen's Musings - Meet Snaily the skateboarding snail, and check out the fairies in Aileen's gardens! Aileen has created free postcards for you to send to a friend.

Craftside - The glitter, fabric, fire and pens are flying this week at Craftside with cool lettering tutorials from Lisa Engelbrecht, lampwork beaded earrings, Modern quilt designs and patterns, knitting with fleece fabric, and pictures of the Crafty Chica's Sparkle tour.

Crafty Princess Diaries - Tammy has a new free metal clay project posted. This one is for the ID Me bracelet.

Layer's Upon Layers - Debe Friedhoff creates bottles of hope for those in need. "You can't sell hope!" Debe says. "You can only give it away!"

Stefanie Girard's Sweater Surgery - You'll look fabulous coming and going this fall when you knit up this free pattern for a double sided cable scarf.

The Impatient Blogger - Margot shares a project from her book Sparkletastic with Ana and Megan Araujo on this episode of When Creativity Knocks.

About.com Cross Stitch - Stitch a free Happy Halloween pattern to add to your Halloween decor.