Bookmark Collector

Here are the bookmark entries from a variety of on-line bookmark collectors:
Bookmark Friday: eat your veggies
It’s a veggie theme over at Sixbucksadonkey.
Mmm, veggies.
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Cup and Saucer
I came across the Tea with Friends blog where Angela McRae posted about a recent bookmark acquisition. It’s such an interesting item that I thought I’d point it out. [...]

Continuing my collection of links focused on Bookmarks for Sale, here are the items I’ve come across this week.
Handmade Bookmarks: KathyysKrafts
KathyysKrafts has three different handmade bookmarks which came up for sale this week. The first is the Guinness bookmark which she made from a recycled Guinness carton.
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The second is the Blue Moon bookmark. There appear [...]

Here are a couple of interesting news items about bookmarks that I found recently.
Penn State Commemorative Bookmarks
Penn State is commemorating the contributions made by Coach Joe Paterno and his family to the Univeristy Libraries by issuing a series of seven bookmarks. They are referred to as a Collector’s Series. From the description on the Penn [...]

Gail Anderson-Dargatz is a writer who’s blog entry about her bookmark making past-time caught my attention. Her post is actually about how she is ending this hobby, but within that discussion is a general description of how she uses dead butterflies and other insects to create bookmarks.
She talks about how the process started as a [...]

Here’s another collection of links that I’ve come across recently. The focus of this set is bookmarks that are for sale. There are promotional bookmarks, wedding reception gifts, handmade/art bookmarks, and others that are just cool.
Cause Awareness
Gimmes.com (an internet based promotional materials supplier) has a new bookmark available which they are targeting to non-profit agencies. [...]

A blogger named Sixbucksadonkey is starting what he (she?) calls Bookmark Friday. The first entry said that every Friday would have a posting displaying a bookmark from his/her collection. However, the second posting was two weeks later.
Not that I would know anything about not keeping up with regular postings.
The two displayed so far are quirky [...]

Here are a set of patterns and instructions for making bookmarks which I’ve recently come across. Some are newly published, and others are just recent discoveries. I originally thought I’d publish a post for each item as I discovered them, but so many have popped up that I’ve decided to publish a regular (weekly?) collection [...]

This week, there are announcements for a couple of regional contests aimed at kids. It’s back-to-school time for many, and this seems like a great way to get kids involved with libraries and reading.
Back To School Contest in Alabama
The W.J. Carrol Intermediate School in Alabama is having a back-to-school bookmark contest with the theme The [...]

I just discovered Inside Books, a personal blog about reading and literature published by Simon Quicke who appears to be in London. He discusses books that he’s read, but he also has a regular post he calls Bookmark of the Week where he posts a picture of one of his bookmarks and talks a bit [...]

I came across this crochet pattern for a bookmark called Closed Diamond Filet. However, to download the pattern you will need to join Free Patterns.
There are quite a few patterns available for free on this site, but it’s quite annoying to navigate around. There are a lot of ads, and a major effort is made [...]