3.9.08

Free Bookmarks

This semester I seem to have a lighter workload than I have had so far in my college education. This gives me opportunities for even reading extracurricular books. With all this reading, I need bookmarks. Recently, I discovered a secret hoard of free bookmarks, so I am going to pass on my knowledge to the rest of the world.

The first thing to do is go to your local WALMART, HomeDepot, or other hardware-ish store. Then, locate the paint aisle. You will find a rainbow of colorful paint sample cards:



Guess what? They're free. Yes. And perfectly bookmark shaped. And they're colorful. What more could you want?

Here are some of my new free bookmarks:



I like to coordinate the names of the colors with the kind of book I am reading. Like the card of "Saddlebury, Mushroom Taupe, Eagle's Peak and Oil Lamp" might make a good mark for a colonial times book. "Summer Rye, Honey, February Gold and Rich Amber" might go for a western/prairie/farmer book. "Arbor Walk, Irish Meadow, Shamrock and Cat's Eye Green" would be terrific for a romantic mystery novel set in Ireland.

You know you want to get some now. :]

2 comments:

  1. I was going through my boxes of books and I found a couple that I had used paint cards to hold my place!

    It is a good idea.

    I also read your English blog and I really wanted to comment. I agree with Pinkerdoodle. It seems like a lot of your classmates are getting "speech" and "language" confused. AND we must remember that speech is exactly an illusion. A tree is not a "tree", it is that plant with a slender trunk and leafy canopy. Speech has everything to do with speaking and not necessarily anything to do with communicating. Anyway, those are just my unwelcome thoughts and I felt weird posting them on your class blog, so I dumped them on you.

    MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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  2. Thanks! I miss you a lot, too. It seems like we haven't talked in forever- we should. And I don't mean that in a "we used to be best friends but now that I've moved I really am just trying to break it off nicely and get on with my life" sort of way. More like "I wish we were still roomies and coworkers and co-conspirators" kind of way, except the roomie part. That wouldn't work out so well anymore.

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