Collection Central
April 30, 2007
Some women collect shoes and purses. Some collect animals (real or otherwise). Some collect dust.
I’d like to collect bookmarks.
Does that sound lame? Is that laughter I hear? Okay, maybe it does sound lame, but, hey, it’s not going to break the bank (I think).
I know you’re all wondering where I got such a crazy idea. At a blog called Book Splurge, where else?
This could be more fun than scrapbooking. Oh! I could make my own with scrapbook paper, and I could make them match the bookcover, and I could –
Maybe I need help, too?
- Don’t forget to leave a tip!
- Today’s the last day to enter for a chance to win Sharon Dunn’s Death of a Garage Sale Newbie or the free critique from Affordable Novel Critique Service. Leave a comment before midnight, central time, to enter. If you’re interested in the critique, please specifiy that in your comment.
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8 Responses to “Collection Central”
I am intrigued with this idea of collection bookmarks! After all, being a geek I already collect the electronic vairant of the same.
Sally, I became aware of your blog through a posting on the ACFW forum … i am trying to remember the thread where we crossed paths.
In any event, i see I might just make it under the midnight deadline as I am interested in the ‘free critique’
As a total newbie, I am always welcoming of critters giving me the time of day.
I plan to begin blogging soon too, trying now to prep for the Colorado Christian Writer’s Conference in two weeks .. and trying to get something, anything on my website so netizens know I exist.
Thank you for your blogging efforts and your participation in the ACFW forum.
kind regards,
david w. fry –> author in training
aka –> frydwords
Don’t laugh, please, but I have a collection of Pez Dispensers. Why? I don’t know really. I don’t even like the candy. They’re just cute!
They are not display (yet), but maybe someday!!
Everyone has their “thing”!!
Bookmarks are a great idea! I never have enough, I’m always grabbing scrap paper, the receipt for the book, or a piece of tissue. (Bad, I know.) I wish I was a collector of SOMETHING, but since our home is, well, small, we pretty much pare down to the essentials. Yet another great thing about bookmarks–they don’t take up much space!
Thanks for linking my blog! I hate to say I collect purses too. UGH.
Julie, my daughter would be envious! Of course she *does* like the candy.
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Sally, you could match one with every book you read if you use the ones that are a piece of string with pretty beads at each end. ‘Course those may break the bank. I think they’re like $6 a piece.
As for collections, I think my biggest collection would be recipes. Next to that would be my collection of cookbooks. I sit down and read them, post-it noting all the ones that I’d like to try someday.
Dan, like the comment about electric bookmarks! Guess I’ve been collecting them, too.
Julie, a lot of people collect Pez dispensers! Next time I’m tempted to throw one away (kids get them from time to time), I’ll send it your way.
Thanks, everyone! You all made me feel normal!
I love bookmarks! I try to keep meaningful ones on hand and tuck them into birthday cards.
FWIW, my earlier April comments would love the critique.
I am currently trying to retrain myself to *use* a bookmark, rather than leaving the book splayed open on the couch/bed/floor.
I only just lost a pretty one with hot air balloons that lasted me two books in a row.
*Sigh*