A Thing I Love: Thanks, Leslie

Bookmarks!
Made of shells collected when she visited us in Florida and tiny bits of sea glass from her own beach. And of course, packed in a box that's hand-lettered with one of my favorite GLORY BE chapter titles.

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Bad Bookmarks?

Beautiful Bookmarks

Bookmarks Forever

Today I'm inspired by this fun post about the gross, unhelpful, weird things people/ kids use for bookmarks.

THE BATTLE OF THE BAD BOOKMARKS.

Check it out. Go on, click over there and vote. While you're there, note the book whose place is being held with a crumpled dollar bill.

I love (real) bookmarks.
I especially love the ones my talented friend Eileen created for GLORY BE.

 The front.

 And the back. Ah, the mimosa blossom. Pretty, no?

Bookmarks from friends' new books inspired me. Thanks Kimberley, Caroline and Tess!

But occasionally I resort to stickie notes. Okay. Maybe too often. I wonder if the stickie stuff harms the pages.
Probably not as much as a used tissue, right?

 

Related Posts: Book Spines for Poetry Month 

Beautiful Bookmarks, with a nod to my friend Doris

Every day's my birthday!

Or at least it seems so. In a good way, like when you were a kid and the packages kept coming. 

This is the latest doorstep treat my friend the UPS guy just left.

Gorgeous bookmarks, designed by my artist friend Eileen Harrell!

And here's the back, with a quote from GLORY BE and a mimosa bloom. Mimosas kept cropping up on my pages. Maybe it was the big mimosa tree we climbed in my childhood side yard. 

I couldn't resist putting Glory and her friend Frankie under that tree a few times.

Thank you, Eileen! 

And if anybody needs some amazingly designed bookmarks, I know just who to ask.

(Not actual size, and photography by moi does not do these justice. I will be happy to send a few to any of you. Just send your mailing address to me via facebook message, or scroll down to the "contact me" button on this blog, found on the right side.)