BookJumper Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 That's so pretty Gyre! On that note, while I was home I popped into my the arts & crafts shop where mum works and I found me two nice bookmark cross-stich charts: one has a red and white lighthouse on it and says "Books light our way to knowledge" and the other one is a stack of books whose spines read "This is my book, this is my chapter, this is my page". Hunting through her personal stock mum managed to provide me with fabric and all threads for both so I'm all set, I'll post piccies as soon as there's something to post piccies of! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charm Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 Beautiful bookmark Gyre! Well done kell, its gorgeous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 It says ~ 'With dogs and people, it's love in big splashy colours. When you're involved with a cat, you're dealing in pastels' ~ Louis A Camuti And the last line is done in pastels to match the cats on the front. I just thought it went quite well with the picture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weave Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 And the last line is done in pastels to match the cats on the front. I just thought it went quite well with the picture. I forgot to member the pastels, it is lovely, truly lovely Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 Very nice of you Kell! It's lovely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadya Posted July 4, 2009 Share Posted July 4, 2009 It says ~ 'With dogs and people, it's love in big splashy colours. When you're involved with a cat, you're dealing in pastels' ~ Louis A Camuti How cute. Who was Louis A Camuti? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadya Posted July 4, 2009 Share Posted July 4, 2009 That's so pretty Gyre! On that note, while I was home I popped into my the arts & crafts shop where mum works and I found me two nice bookmark cross-stich charts: one has a red and white lighthouse on it and says "Books light our way to knowledge" and the other one is a stack of books whose spines read "This is my book, this is my chapter, this is my page". Hunting through her personal stock mum managed to provide me with fabric and all threads for both so I'm all set, I'll post piccies as soon as there's something to post piccies of! Perhaps you can use the first one to match the book, if you ever read "To the lighthouse" by Virginia Woolf (that's my favorite book she wrote, by the way). Ok Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted July 4, 2009 Share Posted July 4, 2009 I've recently been given a selection of postcards the BBC have produced to promote their poetry season, which have a few lines of verse and a lovely graphic design on the front, with either the full poem or an extract from it on the back. Although I freely admit I know nothing about poetry, the postcards are beautiful, and make great bookmarks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BookJumper Posted July 4, 2009 Share Posted July 4, 2009 Oooh those postcard sound lovely, chesilbeach - do you know where this poet(ry lover) could get some? I tend to use postcards as bookmarks anyway (I've got a portrait of Erasmus from Rotterdam marking my place in "Generation Dead" at the minute) but these sound particularly nice. I've nearly finished the lighthouse bookmark by the way, it's looking shiny, even better than in the picture. When I come to it I might change the wording at the bottom to something more inspiring, though that would mean designing the new lettering myself which is always a pain... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted July 5, 2009 Share Posted July 5, 2009 I've not seen them anywhere other than my library (including on the BBC website - they don't seem to mention them anywhere). I can only suggest you try your local library. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuggleMagic Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 I have abuot twleve that I shove inside whichever book I am reading. They are postcards, scraps of paper, notes, movie stubs etc etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fev Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 I did not realise how funny I am about bookmarks until this thread made me think about it! I habitually collect bookmarks of all kinds (I often buy them as a small consolation after it has taken me several hours browsing to remember that I really, really don't have the money/time/shelf space for yet another book!) However, these never seem to make it into the books that I am actually reading at the time, but instead adorn previous reads. I use them to mark favourite passages and things (so that eventually they naturally fall open at those places, oops), and they lend extra decorative effect to the display (or shrine) that is My Bookshelf. I also tend to match them up, so for example an old-fashioned fabric-bound classic might have a similarly antique embroidered sampler. With books that I'm actually in the process of reading, I was going to repeat what lots of people seem to say, that I use 'whatever is to hand.' However, I've realised this isn't true - I use gift tags from presents, a nice leaf I found, a completed crossword torn from the newspaper, train tickets from memorable excursions but not from my everyday ride to work... Meaningful stuff I guess. It actually slightly appalled me (irrationally, I know) to learn that a friend of mine (who loves and reads books possibly more than any other person on the planet) took no care whatsoever over what she used to mark her place: price tags from recently purchased socks, the label ripped from the outside of a pop bottle, etc. Having said that, I did once keep a chocolate bar wrapper, as it had a winning code in it for the galaxy book club promotion - although I did wash it to prevent grease stains when I then pressed it inside - that's right - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory So there is some kind of method in my madness, logic in the loony-bin. PS. Apparently I like not only reading, but *rambling too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rawr Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 I then pressed it inside - that's right - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory So there is some kind of method in my madness, logic in the loony-bin. ...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyvek999 Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 It is a bad habit but I fold my pages. If i get hold of a scrap piece of paper i put a arrow on it to point to which page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted July 26, 2009 Share Posted July 26, 2009 When I was in New York I purchased a bookmark with a picture of the New York skyline on it. I wrote the date of the trip on the back. I like it because the bookmark now has meaning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
green Posted July 26, 2009 Share Posted July 26, 2009 Currently using a bookmark they were handing out in Durham Cathedral. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fi. Posted July 26, 2009 Share Posted July 26, 2009 I think I'm obsessed with bookmarks - I have about 70 different ones just now, plus a stack of plain chipboard ones that I'm going to customise myself. I have an awful habit though, of not using them and instead using old train tickets, receipts or anything else that happens to be lying nearby If I lend out any of my books I always make sure to put a bookmark in and give the standard lecture about not folding down corners - my pet hate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inver Posted July 27, 2009 Share Posted July 27, 2009 Actually I seem to be acquiring bookmarks at the moment and am finding it almost as difficult to choose which one to use as much as the actual book I want to use it in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anisia Posted July 27, 2009 Share Posted July 27, 2009 I have two more bookmarks in the big collection. When I went to Foyles in London, they gave me 2 free bookmarks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 Actually I seem to be acquiring bookmarks at the moment and am finding it almost as difficult to choose which one to use as much as the actual book I want to use it in LOL, I can totally relate to this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catwoman Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 My oldest son made me a bookmark for Mother's day at school really pretty cross stictch with card to support it. Thats the one I mainly use. That one and my fella got loads of small pictures of him on one side and my kids on the other and laminated it and it is a good size for a bookmark. I do have many though and I have a few for my textbooks. I have them all in a jamjar so I always know where they are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightwish Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 I now have a lovely magnetic Tom Kitten by Beatrix Potter bookmark. I love it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fev Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 If i get hold of a scrap piece of paper i put a arrow on it to point to which page. I don't quite understand what you mean by this but it reminds me of that bit in the film Labrynth where she lipsticks an arrow on a paving slab to tell her which way she's already been, and then a little creature sneakily swivels it round to point somewhere else. Amusing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrysalis_stage Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 I got another bookmark for my collection from 'Hutton-le-Hole' with the name of the village and a little rams head. (Yorkshire moors) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inver Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 Some one on here asked me for my addy to send me bookmarks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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