Bookmark Collector

Here are this week’s bookmarks, found between October 24 through October 30.
I’ll be traveling for the next few weeks (Egypt this year!) so I may be late with an entry or two. I’m still accessible by email so don’t stop writing, and I’ll be back before the end of the month (in time for Thanksgiving [...]

So here’s what I’ve been hinting at the last few weeks. February 20 and 21, 2010 there’s going to be a convention. A Virtual Convention, right here on the internet. And it’s for Bookmark Collectors.
I’ve been laying the groundwork and checking in with other bookmark bloggers and manufacturers, just making sure I wasn’t onto some [...]

Wow! I think this is the first Bookmark Bookmarks post that did not have a Make Your Own Bookmark section!  So it’s another light week of bookmark related links that I’ve found, from September 5 through September 11.
Enjoy!
Bookmarks In the News
Articles:
An interesting encounter over a bookmark led to a book about Tombstone Arizona, including [...]

I’m skipping the Bookmark Bookmarks posting for May 8, 2009 due to a major fire in my home town. I live in Santa Barbara, California USA, and we’ve been dealing with a major fire that started last Tuesday. Between severe winds and exceedingly hot, dry weather, the fire was out of control for several days, and as much as [...]

Here’s the latest week’s worth of bookmark related links that I’ve found, from April 11 through April 17.
Enjoy!
Bookmarks In the News
Articles:
Laine Farley over at BiblioBuffet uses examples of her amazing collection of vintage Easter bookmarks to illustrated her discussion of how bookmarks were used in the Easter season in the last couple of centuries – [...]

Back on schedule, I have another week’s worth of bookmark related links that I’ve found, from April 4 through April 10.
Enjoy!
Bookmarks In the News
Articles:
Amazing! The reason I greedily consume every article by Frank X. Roberts is that no one else I know could cover a topic like found bookmarks in the Middle Ages. And, he [...]

Another week’s worth of bookmark related links that I’ve found, from March 7 through March 13.
Enjoy!
Bookmarks In the News
Articles:
An interesting article on poetry and bookmarks, both bookmarks mentioned within poems, and bookmarks that have poems on them, by Laine Farley at BliblioBuffet – Link
Here’s an update on that stolen Hitler bookmark that was recovered in [...]

Happy New Year everyone!
Goodbye 2008
As I look back on the past year, two bookmark related items stand out as personal highlights for 2008. First, are the Bookmark Bookmarks posts that I’ve been able to publish every week. It’s been wonderful to see the prized bookmarks that other collectors have posted; the hand-crafted bookmarks made by [...]

Another week’s worth of bookmark related links that I’ve found, from August 23 through August 29.
Enjoy!
Bookmarks In the News
Articles:
Laine Farley has the first part of her Bookmark Travelogue posted at BiblioBuffet, where she starts her discussion of the bookmark collecting highlights of her recent trip to Ireland – Link
Contests :
Another call for entries into The [...]

I had the pleasure of meeting with two other bookmark collectors this week (and no, that’s not a picture from our meeting – no one brought a camera). Lauren Roberts (editor and operator of BiblioBuffet), Laine Farley (contributer to BiblioBuffet’s On Marking Books column), and I met for an early dinner. Laine’s work brought her [...]