Bookmark Collector

Bookmarks collected from 23 Feb. to 29 Feb. 2009 (Happy Leap Day!).
Bookmarks in the News
Articles:
Lauren at BiblioBuffet has an interview with the owner of Papilionaceous, a silk weaving company which manufactures a line of bookmarks – Link
Swaps:
Tammy (cupcake) at Crafter’s Community is sponsoring a book and bookmark swap – Link
Contests:
The Ransom Library in Michigan is [...]

I had the opportunity to meet Amanda Crawford and acquire a couple of her beautiful bookmarks. She had a booth at the Santa Barbara Book and Author Festival in September 2007, and her complete line of products (as well as some under development) were available to see and buy.
All of her products are bookmarks, but [...]

This is the first entry in my new link roundup format. Since I’m playing catchup, it’s a big one! In the future I’ll update weekly.
I’ve included a few more sources in my search for links, and I’ve organized them under some new headings.
If you have anything you’d like me to include in future entries, or [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Over at BiblioBuffet, I had the novel experience of being interviewed by Lauren. It was a great interview and her questions led me to some interesting introspection as well as given me ideas for several new posts.
She’s had a good response from her readers, and that’s led me to wonder if there are some interests [...]

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 [...]

This will be a different type of post, but I feel compelled to write about this as a caution to others who look for bookmark related web-sites.
I have a Google search set up for notices about bookmarks in the news or mentioned in blogs. I probably get a hit once every other day or so [...]

One of my favorite bookmark related sites to follow is a blog by Olga Sotomayor Sánchez named Coleccionista Chilena de Marcapáginas. She’s a librarian in Chile, and has a large, well organized collection that she puts on display at various fairs and events. She collects and trades internationally, and has been active in Mail Art [...]

There’s a wonderful website named Mirage Bookmark that I’ve been enjoying and want to pass along. In addition to a large number of web-links, it has articles on a variety of bookmark topics including history, types, and collecting.
They also have a gift shop where you can buy their gorgeous bookmarks. They have etched and engraved [...]