last week i observed that most of the books on my shelves have either old receipts or fortune-cookie fortunes jutting out of them, and in an effort to find another use for clear packing tape, i started making clear bookmarks by cutting a long strip, placing cute stickers, mag. pics, and paper cut-outs on the tape, and then folding the long strip in half (end to end, sticky side in) and voila! personalized funky bookmarks. (you could even sprinkle some glitter on the tape before sealing it in, or cut out letters of a person's name to personalize). i'm very excited about this project, just wanted to share! :-)
---> MeL

In a book that I got at the library 2 weeks ago (it's due tomorrow) there was an old library card in it. It had expired in 1998, which was probably the last time it had been checked out.

I seal my cookie fortunes in packing tape, and thats what I use for bookmarks, sometimes I get a little more adventurous and write something onto dried leaves and then 'contact' them for book marks too, they are my favourite ones

hmm, it seems like post its are favourable to school books, but I have a few special ones: i used duct tape to make a little strip of "paper" and then coated it with glittery clear nailpolish, i punch star-shaped holes through it, and then place a picture of someone special (hah! not revealing my secrets so soon...) on transparency paper onto it..it makes it look very neato! i love it and everyone in my history class has tried to steal it!

i usually use a piece of torn paper or a receipt. classy shit, yo. or i just dog-ear the book. i always lose bookmarks anyways...

i've seen nice knitted lace bookmarks. it would be pretty to laminate some fall leaves and cut around them, but i guess they would fade. ginkgo leaves would be really pretty....

stella

lol, at the moment I'm just using one of those little pieces of paper you get in the 'carefree pizaz' tampon boxes. i couldnt find anything else at the time so that what i used :P

I dog-ear the pages. Bad thing to do to library books,my Marmie always yells at me for it too. Lately I've been *trying* to put a slip of paper in there though. Those tape bookmarks sound cute!
Zan

I use whatever is flat and within my immediate grasp. This usually ends up being the book store receipt or the library receipt. I also use clothing tags quite a bit. Once I used just a clear piece of packing tape folded in half. Putting pretty things inside sounds like a good idea! I will have to make one and see if I actually use it.

I make bookmarks of laminated photo collages.

I have them of old pics of my family (gotta LOVE the 70's/80's fashion statements), current celebrity crushes (right now it's Eddie Izzard) and old friends (college mostly).

If it's my own book sometimes I dog-ear te pages as well. Not really that big of a deal since most of my paperbacks already have wavy bottom edges from being read in the tub.

ugh, i am such a dog-ear-er!
i should get inspired by y'all to make some bookmarks already. i have been known to use a piece of yarn in a pinch.

I use bits of cotton or wool. Or even receipts. I have a knitted purple and green glittery bookmark which is nice. I have a collection of bookmarks, collected by my Mum but they are too precious to use.

xxx

i either dog-ear or use random perfume samples I found at the bottom of my bag from the last time my mum and I went to Filene's in search of free things....

My 16 year old daughter & I both totally crush on Eddie Izzard,(I saw him first!) she just called me today all hysterical b/c she's misplaced her copy of dressed to kill & she wants me to make her another tape by the weekend b/c she just put a TV/VCR in her room & wants to invite friends over to laze in bed & watch Eddie Izzard. Damn, but I was never that cool.

I use...Bookmarks...


Occasionally business cards. Or the check-out card in library books.

I use strips of cloth to tie up my cookie bags I sell at the market in town. These strips are about 18" long so there's room to spare in most books. I tied knots in both ends and stuck it into a book and it's been in use ever since.

ha! I was going to post exactly what stella says.
sometimes I just try to finish the book late at night, so I don't have to bookmark it.

here's one of those knitted lace bookmarks, I'd love to make one, but don't know if it would actually be flat enough the way *I'd* make it -
>http://www.geocities.com/Lace_bookmark/

i use flyers cut into strips or postcards. i've made a few bookmarks from card or paper leftovers , decorated with pens or stickers

I use post-it notes of all sizes depending on the book, from the regualr size squares to the rectangular flag ones. I like the really bright ones the best. I use them so that I can jot notes down whilst I read.

I have bookmarks, but more often than not I end up just sticking in a piece of toilet paper to save my place. Unused, of course.

i use what ever i can reach, even if its not exactly flat. (they all end up flat, after being in my books for so long!)

i am ms old receipt. or dogear!
i used to collect bookmarks but i always leave em in books and forget about it.
i found one i made when i was like 7 that says "books hold the key to imagination" or something like that. aww.

This thread totally inspired me; last night I went though the huge folders of things I've saved from magazines and went through chosing my favourite small images and then 'laminated' them with several layers of packing tape. I did rice paper, native american pottery, pin-up girls, butterflies, roman busts, elephants...everything! It was so much fun and now I have awesome bookmarks for all my million+1 school books.

You guys rock :)

*Beth*

a one dollar bill.

soda can tabs

condom wrapper(hey it was on the night stand!)
post-it
one crochet by my twin sis
ribbons with beads
christmas card
pencil