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silverleaf

12/10/2018

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Wow, these solid silver artisan bookmarks are stunning!  Check out the Silverleaf website to view all available bookmarks and to find out how and where they are made.  Expensive but gorgeous!  Even the way they are packaged is classy.  

Here are four of my favourite Silverleaf bookmarks:
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what does your bookmark say about you?

12/10/2018

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"It’s pretty clear that if you are here reading this, you’re a fan of books. Now that we have that out of the way, we can also safely assume that you have used a bookmark at least once in your life. But what we don’t know is what you use for a bookmark. So we decided to make up some personality traits about you, based on what you use."... Click here to read the full article, including contributions from readers on what they use as bookmarks.  Such fun!
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i'll be here when you get back

11/10/2018

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...is an interesting article on bookmarks and bookmark collecting by Kerrie More, published in Issue 29 of UPPERCASE Magazine (Canada).
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treasured donation

2/10/2018

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A few weeks ago I received an email from Robyn Williams, a woman living in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.  She had found my website, and therefore me, through the International Friends of Bookmarks (IFOB) website and contacted me to ask if I would like to have her mother's bookmark collection.  Yes please!  Robyn explained that she, on behalf of her mother, wanted to find a good home for the bookmarks with someone who would like them.  

I am so very grateful and indeed honoured to receive these bookmarks and have them in my collection.  It has been a joy to receive them and fossick through them.

I asked Robyn if she could tell me a bit more background about her mother's bookmark collection and her bookmark collecting.  She replied:

I had a bit of a chat to my sister regarding what she remembers of mum’s bookmark collection.  Apparently mum began by asking people (family and friends) to bring her home a bookmark from their travels.  I think she also exchanged some bookmarks with others.  She spent a lot of time on her own in her mid-life as her 3 children were interstate and/or travelling and my dad also travelled frequently for work.  Mum also had a number of overseas penfriends who she wrote to for quite a long period of time until her health and memory deteriorated.  As she moved states within Australia several times (due to dad’s work), she often found it hard to make friends, and writing to penfriends and collecting bookmarks was a way of having contact with others.  She was also a great ‘journaller’ and compiled a year long diary for each of her 8 grandchildren for the year of their birth, with daily news, newspaper clippings, current prices of everyday things, politics and funny snippets.

What a lovely story, including about the journals Robyn's mother compiled for her grandchildren. Delightful and so touching.

I did not actually count the bookmarks but there are about 200, perhaps more.  There are vintage and more recent bookmarks across several categories:  bookshops, libraries, museums, publishers, organisations,  products, etc.  There are card, plastic, leather, cloth, metal and even a pottery bookmark.  The majority are commercial bookmarks but some are handmade, handcrafted.  I will feature some of my favourites on this blog in the coming months.  With Robyn's permission, I am offering the duplicates up through my duplicate bookmarks website and will also donate some duplicates to the IFOB bookmark raffle in February 2019.
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Bookmarks donated via Robyn Williams
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    Debrah Gai Lewis lives in Lillian Rock, New South Wales, Australia and is a bookmark collector, yoga teacher and SoulCollage® Facilitator (among other things).

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