My email is silenceisgolden 4 @ hotmail dot com. There is plenty of time, you don't need to decide now. I will bring this thread up to the top occasionally as a reminder.

PAM

PAM

Thanks,
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PAM

I emailed you to include me in the list. Let me know if you didn't get the email with my information.

I still have all my bookmarks from the last time too and everytime I use one of them, I remember the fun I had making mine to send out and how much fun I had anticipating what I might receive in return.

I have sent a personal email to everyone who has responded so far (sorry it took me so long) so if you emailed me you should have a response. I hope I have not forgotten anyone, please let me know. And remember, sign up anytime - the fall is far, far away -

Pat

Rosefolly

Many thanks,
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If anyone has changed their mind and doesn't want to participate, please let me know. And if anyone wants to join us, you are most welcome. My address is in the first post at the top. So far we have 19 or 20 participants.

In the next couple of days I will send out a group email so everyone who is interested will know they are included. I will post here when I have done so.

I've collected quite a few bookmarks over the summer, but I am still thinking of making some. Not that I am very creative, but it is fun.

Helen

How many bookmarks do we need to procure? For example, if there are twenty people in this bookmark exchange, do I need to get 20 bookmarks?

Sorry to be so uneducated about this - haven't done it before!

Thanks

I would suggest making sure the bookmark fits into a standard envelope and is not too thick, making for extra postage. Strings or tassels are very nice, but if they are too thick, they cost more to send.

I have collected quite a few over the summer, but now I am thinking of making some.

I think I asked you to count me in, some time ago, but can't remember. In any case, I'll e-mail you my real address, plus a more reliable e-mail than the one you get to if you just press my name on this site. I'd be quite happy for RPers to have that e-address if they want.

Dido

I have finally got myself together and sent an email to everyone who has signed up for the bookmark exchange. If you haven't received an email from me, my apologies, please email me again and I will correct my list. I have two different emails for a couple of people and I believe I sent to both addys. Any clarifications, questions, or concerns, please email me.

At the end of the month, I will close the list and send everyone the snail mail addresses. If anyone is out there and wants to participate, let me know before 30 September. Yes, postage will be a factor - we have people from five countries! Several people will be sending mail exclusively internationally. I hope this isn't too onerous. But I am looking forward to these envelopes arriving in my mailbox!

I would like to know if anyone prefers to get a postcard to use as a bookmark? It costs the same to send as an envelope with a bookmark, but I have some nice postcards I could send.

And romance lovers: I have postcards with some classic romance book covers artwork by Franco Accornero on them, so let me know if you would like one of those (however, they are slightly larger than a trade paperback cover, so might prove inconvenient to use as bookmarks).

You say 5 countries are involved - what are they? I know there's UK and USA and Australia and Iceland - what's the fifth?

My postage is going to be the same as Vee's. I'd like to send stuff out really early to get the lowest cost and still get it to you all by Christmas.... end September coming up now so about mid-October or earlier might be a good time for us to send. Can we have home-addresses and all necessary info, then, by beginning of October?

That will also save Vee from feeling she has to put her hiking boots on and trail across the dangerous divide - Offa's Dyke being the least of it.

Netla, I, for one, shall be delighted to hear from you and to accept whatever you decide to send.

Dido

Dido, I think the days of surface mail are pretty well numbered and articles sent at the cheaper rate are usually parcels, which are then sent the 'long-way-round' in the hold of a Dakota.

I will be well pleased with whatever arrives and any size is good since I often use bookmarks in magazines and also for nonfiction books that often seem to be extra-large - probably to accomodate photograghs.

The list is almost ready, and I promise to send it October First. Maybe a bit sooner. I don't anticipate more than one or two more people will want to participate. If the next week goes by without anyone joining, I will go ahead and send the list on the weekend of the 26th. I even have it ready, so there will be no waiting around for me to get my act together.

Netla, anything you choose to send will be great to have.

My thanks, also, to Siobhan for chairing this meeting.

One thing has occurred to me now that I have sent the list - if no country is listed, it is in the U.S. Politically incorrect of me, I apologize.

There is still time to participate, so if anyone out there is reading this and wants to join us, please email me straight away -

Susan

These won't be the only offering from me as I have other plans, but I could not resist. At least there were still plenty left for other people!

I think this will make all our holidays a bit more cheerful!

The USPS always makes it sound like a total crisis if you mail it later than it says, but I've done it loads of times and it's been ok.

Rosefolly