Bookmark Collectors Virtual Convention

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February 20th and 21st there’s an online event which is rather like a
Valentine’s Day celebration for collectors: The first annual Bookmark Collectors Virtual Convention.

I'll be presenting, Are You An Embarrassed Collector? Don’t Be!, even though I really don't collect bookmarks -- anymore. My session is for collectors everywhere, of anything — collectors of everything:

Maybe you’ve never articulated why you collect, what your collection “does” — or maybe you have & you just don’t think it’s important in The Big Picture sort of a way. Maybe others have made you feel like a capitalistic consumer pig in your collecting pursuits. Whatever the reason, do you down-play your “junk,” your hobby, and your passion?

It is my hope that in this session you will become a more confident collector, to learn to see your items beyond their materialistic cash value and appraise them for their cultural and intrinsic values, to see the very act of collecting itself and your contribution as a collector as significant. Because all collections, great and small — all collectors, great and small — are of incredible value.

Other sessions that I'm personally excited about are Don Baldwin's help on Organizing a Bookmark Collection, Lauren Roberts' tips on How To Store And Display Your Bookmark Collection, and Jen Funk Weber's class on Making an Embroidered Bookmark and the Stitching for Literacy Program.

Registration is just $10 -- for two days worth of sessions you can enjoy, sitting at home in your jammies ;)

I'm giving away commemorative bookmarks for this event -- there's still some left!