Bookmark Collector

For those interested in another outlet for your swapping obsession, I want to let you know about Swap-bot. I’ve recently joined their swap-facilitating site, and have participated in several of their bookmark swaps.
Basically, once you join there are approximately 500 active swaps you may participate in. All of them are arranged by other Swap-bot members, [...]

As a woodworker myself, this article caught my eye. Alan Bradstreet makes bookmarks from wood in impressive numbers: 45 000 every year. And he down this by himself and by hand! I’m lucky to get one or two out a month just to keep up with my bookmark swaps.
The article describes how he came to [...]

Well, it’s been a couple of weeks and there are quite a few posts around the net to catch up on. So here we go.
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A Reading Endorsement
Over at Sixbucksadonkey there have been several Bookmark Friday entries.
This pair of bookmarks was produced to encourage reading and used the images of the actors from two popular TV [...]

Here are a few more bookmarks for sale:
KathyysKrafts
Here’s the latest Guinness bookmark from KatthysKraft over at Etsy. Keep in mind that she has a variety of hand crafted bookmarks and other decorative items for sale over there.
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Bookmark Books
These are lovely bookmarks that open up to have several blank pages available for taking notes.That’s pretty handy [...]

Here are my latest bookmark creating finds around the “interwebs”:
Flower Bookmark
Over at De’Play, there’s a very simple set of instructions for making this flowery bookmark. It’s made from hardboard and paper cutouts and is fine for kids to make.
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Scrapbook Inspired
Although this post doesn’t have detailed instructions on making this bookmark, it’s an interesting discussion on [...]

Here are some items I’ve collected from the news over the last couple of weeks:
Clean Air Bookmark Contest Winners
The St. Louis Public Library posted the winners of their Clean Air Bookmark Contest. This is the winning bookmark, submitted by Kiarry S. All the winning entries are posted at the following link and they’re pretty fun.
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Bookmarks [...]

Several months ago, Harriet went to an estate sale and bought these two bookmarks. From the nature of the other items for sale, it was clear that this was the home of a Jewish woman who had survived the holocaust, and so it was a particularly poignant set to bring home
Each of the metal bookmarks [...]

María Rosa from Spain has started a new blog named Punto de Papel in which she is posting her bookmark collection. The images she’s posted so far show a pretty impressive collection, and rather than select one of the beautiful bookmarks as the header for this post, I’m going to urge you to head over [...]

Here are some posts from collections that I saw this week:
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Here’s the latest Bookmark Friday entry over at Sixbucksadonkey (I love that title). He’s titled the post “A LOVE Thing” and the caption on the bookmark is “I love books so much I wish I could just marry them”. There’s also an audio recording of [...]

Once again, the Centre for Fine Print Research at the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol is sponsoring their Bookmarks exhibition. This year it’s Bookmarks V. I posted about last year’s project and I’ll shamefully admit that I never got out to see any of the exhibit sites. This year I’m definitely getting [...]