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Bookmarks Swap!
LauraT wrote: "I know, I know, almost all of us read mainly, if not exclusively ebooks, which don’t need any external bookmark – another of their merit!But I still like to have bookmarks around the house: I buy ..."
I love this idea! My collection of bookmarks is very small but I like them a lot.
I buy books almost only in second hand bookshops and I like it when I find in the pages a bookmark. I have found often postcards or very old invoices (of course I don't pay them!). I like also when I find a love dedication and I wonder if these two persons still love each other.
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Yes, I like this idea, I'd like to take part.
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Could we make our bookmarks on the computer and send it to the person by email? That way they can be able to print the bookmark out. That's the only way I could do it. Great idea though. I wish I could do that with the friends I do christmas cards with as I collect bookmarks too. I collect ones at book signings and at the library.
Sounds like fun. I really enjoy bookmarks (sending & receiving). I'll join up.This is a festive idea, Laura.
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dely
Alannah
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I think you can send it via email, if you really can't send it by post Amber!!!
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Thanks guys I'm from the usa so I prefer email and I only share my mailing address with friends I know/met in person and family so will definitely do it by email. Just pm me for it.
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It's ok. :) I think email is probably the best way.
I'm in. This sounds like a brilliant idea.
I'd like to join. I don't really know where to buy bookmarks from but I'm sure I can hunt something down!
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Alannah
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Amber Via email
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Charbel
Heather
So when are you guys doing the bookmark exchange? I was just curious. Since I'll be doing mine via email, I think I'm going to go ahead and make mine and send them off between black Friday and after since emails are faster than regular mail. That way I can have plenty of time to plan and make some good ones to give to some of my book club buddies as a Christmas present. I also may do this with my friends I do Christmas cards with too.
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I was planning of sending mine if abroad by the end of november, to give it plenty of time to get where it has to!!!!
Any other interested?
I could do it by post or by email, whichever is preferable.
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Mine will be by post: I'm helpless with design!!!
Okay cool. well, let me know if anyone wants one from me by email and I'll make and send you yours by the 8th of December. I am making them via Microsoft paint and will email them to you. just let me know and if you want my email so you can send me one, just pm me. already did two practice ones, a Christmas one, and one of roses with a butterfly.
Please, for me no email bookmark, I have some problems with the printer, it doesn't print very well.
I don't have a printer either so would prefer post. I also can't design
Heather wrote: "I don't have a printer either so would prefer post. I also can't design"I can't either, I'm going to the tourist information centre to get mine, I think.
If you can't print the bookmarks out at home, you can do it at a library because they have printers that work there. That's the only way I can send bookmarks that I will make to you guys is by email as I can only share my postal mailing address with friends and family I know and have met. So if you want one, please pm me your email address. Thanks.
Shirley wrote: "Heather wrote: "I don't have a printer either so would prefer post. I also can't design"
I can't either, I'm going to the tourist information centre to get mine, I think."
I'd heading to an exhibition in London this weekend so I'm going to have a browse for something interesting from there
I can't either, I'm going to the tourist information centre to get mine, I think."
I'd heading to an exhibition in London this weekend so I'm going to have a browse for something interesting from there
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And let's put it this way: if not otherwise requested the bookmarks will be "real", on paper - or whatever other materil we decide, hand made or bought. For those who prefere it, there'll be the "elettronic" version!!!!
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dely
Alannah
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Amber Via email
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Leslie
Charbel
Heather
Jenny
Mine is ready to be sent! I have made it this morning and it is autographed :D
Can you add me to the list please. I will be sending by post and would like to receive the same way, please.
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dely
Alannah
Shirley
Amber Via email
Petra
Leslie
Charbel
Heather
Jenny
Gill
Hey dely! wait a moment!!!
Let's see if there are others interested; we can start sending them by the end of this month!
LauraT wrote: "Updated list:LauraT
dely
Alannah
Shirley
Amber Via email
Petra
Leslie
Charbel
Heather
Jenny
Gill
Hey dely! wait a moment!!!
Let's see if there are others interested; we can start sending them ..."
Ooh, do you mean the end of October? I won't be able to send one until the end of November. Is that too late?
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LauraT wrote: "Hey dely! wait a moment!!!Let's see if there are others interested; we can start sending them by the end of this month! "
Of course :D
LauraT wrote: "No no Gill: the end of october was a sort of "starting date"!!!! Don't worry, by the end of november I think there will be plenty of time to get to its destination before Christmas!!!!"That's good, I was wondering how to get myself organized earlier, now I don't need to. Phew!
I'm in for the bookmark swap. I'll be sending them my mail. I can't print them by email.
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dely
Alannah
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Heather
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Diana S
I would love to get involved with this. I would prefer posting too. I adore bookmarks they're the only thing I collect!
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dely
Alannah
Shirley
Amber Via email
Petra
Leslie
Charbel
Heather
Jenny
Gill
Diana S
Jo
I am interested! I would also prefer post too.
Amber wrote: "If you can't print the bookmarks out at home, you can do it at a library because they have printers that work there. That's the only way I can send bookmarks that I will make to you guys is by emai..."Libraries in my city only print in black and white which wouldn't be much fun with bookmarks. :(
Okay, Amber #2. That's why I said for anyone that wants to get one from me by email that can print them out can contact me about it. You don't have to though. I'm planning on doing bookmarks with my Christmas card friends I got postal addresses for anyway.
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dely
Alannah
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Amber Via email
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Heather
Jenny
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Diana S
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Let's wait unother week to see if someone else is interested, and then, by the 10th or 15th of november I was thinking we "close" the circle and see who's sending to whom - and how!!!!
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LauraT
dely
Alannah
Shirley
Amber Via email
Petra
Leslie
Charbel
Heather
Jenny
Gill
Diana S
Jo
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amber
Let's wait unother week t..."
How are you going to work who is going to send to whom? Will you work it out by the person's location?
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I'll join.If it's not too much to ask, I'd prefer it if my partner lives in Great Britain.
Oh and I'd rather receive my bookmark through the post if that is alright with everyone.
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But I still like to have bookmarks around the house: I buy them when I go to art exhibitions, I love when friends bring them from a holiday or strange places; and in the “paper books” I still read I use also postcards, notes, pictures by friends and children and so on.
I was thinking therefore to organize a “Christmas Swap” of bookmarks in here.
I know that Christmas is still far away, but since we’re scattered all over the world I think that to start “in time” will make it possible for all of us to receive his/her present in time to have it under the Christmas tree.
The idea is simple enough: all who are interested will “sing up” in here. We keep it open I think for about a month three weeks. When everyone who’s interested has written down his or her name we’ll organize a sort of circle: the first will send a bookmark to the second, the second to the third, and so on till the last one will send it to the first.
The bookmark will be as you like them: you can do it yourself using your creativity – lucky those who have got it!!! - , buy it in your town of in a town of your country or from a place you’ve visited and particularly liked ….
The address will be asked privately by message.
What do you think? Is anyone interested?
I’ll be the first!!!!
LauraT
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