I’ve posted a new bookmark, finally! Also I will no longer be the only one working on the project, a lovely young lady named Rachael from An Arbor, Michigan will be joining me on ifoundabookmark.wordpress.com. How awesome is that?
Hopefully this will increase the frequency of posts, so that it’ll be interesting for you sweet readers to keep coming back. And I will also do my best to read faster, because when the book I’m reading for this project is long overdue to be returned to the library, something is not going as planned.
So here’s to good intentions and I hope you like my new bookmark!

Then I bought myself a camcorder and tried a video blog with it, which I’ve uploaded tonight:

Much better image quality, but as you can see I’m still not very good at the actual video blogging. My speech sucks: diction, it’s important why don’t I use it? Also I at one point used ‘like’ without meaning ‘similar too’, and it wasn’t satirical. *Facepalm*.
I have no clue why the white balance is so off in parts of this video since the light didn’t really change at all while I was taping. And if you’re wondering, the weekend I mention in the video is not Christmas. Two weeks passed since I filmed this, I’m talking about being away with friends and going out for a walk and filming pigs. Yes pigs. I hope I can salvage some of the footage and make a nice video out of it, perhaps with a jaunty tune.

The above film shows how we make the new Dutch Metro Mode. See if you can spot yours truly!
It’s the first Dutch ‘glossy’ on newspaper paper. Our first number came out on november 25.

So this is the concept:

1• Get blanc cards.
2• Be a member of the library.
3• Borrow a book and read it.
4• Take one of your cards and make a bookmark out of it that relates to the book you’ve just read. You can draw, paint, play with typography or just write, be creative!
5• Scan/Take a picture of the bookmark.
6• Put the image in a blog post on I found a bookmark and write about what in the book inspired you for the bookmark.
7• Write the link to the blog on the back of the bookmark.
8• Put your bookmark in the library book and return it to your library.
9• Repeat steps 1-8.

I started with a pointy nose and my idea’s about what kind of animal/creature it would be changed at least four times during the making of it. That’s probably why I don’t really know what it is. Crochet with cotton yarn, glass bead eyes, felt pouch and ears (sewn on) and cute buttons to attach the limbs). In the pouch is a turnip-looking thingy. (It has a pouch, so something needed to be in it.)

You might recall this octopus, well it just got a little sibling. It’s smaller and I really like how this one turned out. I’m thinking about making some more in different colours to give as gifts or something. Crocheted with hooked spaghetti, felt and googly eyes.