Bookmark Collector

Another week’s worth of bookmark related links that I’ve found, from May 31 through June 6.

Enjoy!

Bookmarks In the News

Articles:

A write-up on the West Fargo Public Library receiving bookmarks from Nordic Needles as part of the Needle and ThREAD: Stitching for Literacy; 2008 Bookmark Challenge – Link

The El Dorado County Library is trying to fins a patron’s lost bookmark – Link

In this week’s On Marking Books article from BiblioBuffet, Laine tells the history of her National Geographic Society bookmark which was recycled from the cloth of a historic hot air balloon – Link

Contests :

The Forrest City (Arkansas) Public Library’s bookmark contest has its deadline on Friday, June 13 – Link

Contest Winners:

Andrea Thomas won the Grades 9 through 12 category of the 2008 Bookmark Design Contest sponsored by the Johnson County (Kansas) Public Library – Link

Adit Agarwal won the preschool to kindergarten category and Anna Clemens was one of the winners in the third to fourth grade category of the same Johnson County Public Library 2008 Bookmark Design Contest – Link

Swaps:

A Swap-bot bookmark swap coordinated by Lydia Abigail, for Europeans only (must be a member of swap-bot – free) – Link

A little bit different swap, one handmade bookmark and one tea bag! Posted at Swap-bot by shelly96734 – Link

Make Your Own Bookmark

A pattern for a beaded bookmark from RaniMaria – Link

A nice little tutorial on making a woven bookmark from yarn, by HomeSchoolBlogger – Link

Natalia at Marcapaginas provides a link for a website about children’s books and includes a link for a free, downloadable bookmark – Link

Bookmarks For Sale

Groovy Crafts completed the last of their 10 handmade bookmarks and they’re available at their Etsy store – Link

A gold cottonwood leaf bookmark from Dazzling Lady – Link

Another on of Linda Layden’s beautiful scrimshaw on recovered piano key ivory bookmarks – Link

Anne Julie has another bookmark available with one of her images – Link

Another Anne Julie bookmark, this image includes a baby jackalope – Link

A vintage letter opener/bookmark made in Louisiana – Link

Free Bookmarks

This is interesting. Jace Scribbles is a book review blog, and as a celebration of her first year, she’s giving away 4 lovely bookmarks (wood veneer with laser engraving) in a random drawing – Link

On-Line Bookmark Collections

Inside Books: Bookmark of the Week:

A promotional bookmark by Godstone Farms for their website – Link

Mondopunt:

Once again, I’m having a little trouble with the translation at this site, but there is a fine set of bookmarks that I believe are available for sale (12 Euro for the set?) – Link

Flikr Images:

An image by catimini, there are other images in the photoset – Link

Including this image of a railing, also from catimini - Link

Picture of an interesting bookmark made with a notepad and clip, by elinjanne - Link

Ki.Ka67 has a new bookmark image with a burst of colorful flowers – Link

Miscellaneous:

Images of new bookmarks promoting the release of two books by the late Romance author Dawn Thompson – Link

Several pictures of a very cool looking, spiral-clip style bookmark posted by alonelovex - Link

A lovely cross-stitched bookmark on a very interesting frame, at Sara’s Simple Stitching – Link

A stamped paper bookmark card created by Magnolia Design – Link

A handmade, felted bookmark by Orit – Link

A stamped paper bookmark by Laura at Lolo Schpadora – Link

A stamped paper bookmark created in response to a challenge, by Nessy - Link

Michelle created this card with a detachable bookmark – Link

A lovely, knitted leaf bookmark by Pax *knits – Link

A hand drawn bookmark of an anthropomorphic fox, by Tod at JaxPad - Link