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At 11:28am on October 1, 2008, Kyle Boyd-Robertson said…: I saw a couple of sites with quite a few bookmarks on them thought you might be interested.
http://www.ecrater.com/
http://www.rubylane.com/

At 6:59pm on September 29, 2008, Alan Irwin said…: Hiya Persephone. Thanks for getting me hooked up here. The welcome has been pretty amazing.

I'm also happy to hear that you found the background on that California bookmark, even though it wasn't the most appealing of stories for you. Still, amazing insights!

Now I'm going to try and figure out how to upload pictures, etc.

At 5:43am on September 29, 2008, Gerard Hilte said…: Hello Persephone, thank you for welcoming me. The bridge museum has nothing to do with bridges, 'bridging the gap' over a river or between teeth. The collection of the bridge museum is on he cardgame bridge. Unfortunattely the website is still in dutch but within half a year it will be a pleasant place to pay a visit to the virtual musum in english.

At 8:04pm on September 27, 2008, Daena said…: Hello! It was fun to return from dinner to see your comment. Digitial scrapbooking is similar to traditional scrapbooking, but you use photo editing software instead of paper and glue. Scan your photos, ephemera, elements, backgrounds, etc., and then use Photoshop or some similar software to create your pages. (I created my default picture that way.) You can display them on your choice of a multitude of websites. My current favorite is scrapbookflair.com.

As for vintage/retro, I really love so many that it's hard to narrow it down but currently, I'd say old ads top my list of favorites. You have some wonderful ones displayed on your site. I don't even have any one era of preference. It's more based on the character of the individual piece, the colors, whether they bring me a warm fuzzy, maybe bring a smile of amusement. I love certain combinations of colors and fonts, the craftsmanship and artwork that went into the early ads. Ok, I've babbled on too long. Your turn! :-)

At 5:05pm on September 26, 2008, Persephone said…: Hi Kyle and Gejus!

I've been off for about a week, and it was an absolute delight to come back and see your two wonderful comments.

Gejus, I actually have about 1,200 bookmarks so this is but a tiny portion of them. I hope someday to have them all online, but that is going to take some time.

I tend to scan them as I write about them or plan to write soon. One image (that I will place on here as soon as I finish this post) is of a California bookmark that I am having no luck identifying. The bookmark is of purple and gold silk, about 10 inches by 2.5 inches and dated, as you can see, 1897.

I spent about five days researching it and came up with nothing. So I turned to both the State library and the State Historical Society for help. Three weeks later, they are still working on it. Each of them individually contacted two antiques dealers who specialize in Californiania, and neither of them can find anything. I have even sent an email to UC Berkeley's reference library with no results.

This is the first time such a thing has happened. It appears to be officially connected with the state, but when even the experts can't come up with anything ...

Kyle, you are most welcome. You have a fascinating niche interest there. Where is your daughter going to college? Her major is wonderful! What would she like to do with it?

At 1:54pm on September 25, 2008, Gejus van Diggele said…: What a great collection!
Thanks for sharing.
Gejus

At 12:09pm on September 20, 2008, Kyle Boyd-Robertson said…: Thank you so much for the positive feedback on my blogs and thanks for adding me as a friend. i visited your website and have to say I am quite impressed. I know I will be spending much more time there with so much to read and learn. I myself am an ameture bibofile and I have passed on the disease to my daughter who will be going to college next year for English Literature. She has already written one book and we are getting ready to self publish it. I will be sending you some information on my cataloging soon.

At 12:01pm on September 4, 2008, Valerie MacEwan said…: I love your website/blog. Nice. I considered that theme template before grabbing the one I'm using now on macewan.net. And I truly enjoy Nicki's writing. She's an excellent reviewer.

At 5:07pm on September 1, 2008, Persephone said…: Hi Frank,

Thank you. I am very happy to be here. I'm going to check out your web site later to learn a bit more about what it is you do. It sounds quite interesting.