I won't be participating this year either.

I should have liked to join in but the logistics were too difficult. (If logistics is the correct word.)

I did enjoy seeing some of the clever efforts you pictured.

I skipped it last year but would be interested this year if others are too.

So far two yes and three no. Let's let it go a while longer and see how many are interested.

I will join in if a group forms. i have more bookmarks than i need, but i always love the clever ones that you folks find or make!

Yes, it's always so nice to get holiday mail and I already have bookmarks!

Okay, 4 yes's so far; make it 5 when you count mine. Let's go ahead with it then.

I will dig up my bookmarks which I actually moved along with me when we left California.

I'm going to let this run until mid-November to see if any more RP members decide to join in.

Then I will collect and distribute addresses.

*SIGH*........if you do it, include me ( you gals are very persuasive ! )

OK, six so far

I'm in - same address as twenty years ago. I still have all of the ones you sent to me. Not sure what I will send, but I will figure it out. It was always so much fun! I will probably need an updated address list as mine is from 2010.

PAM

It's November 15th so I will assume the group has formed. There are seven of us, Phaedosia, Yoyobon, Rouan, Donnamira, Merryworld, Bigdogstwo, and Rosefolly.

I will need to send out a new address list. The last list sent out was in 2022. Yoyobon, Rouan, Donnamira, and Merryworld were on it. Please let me know if there are any updates for you. Otherwise I will copy your addresses over to the new list.

My own address is new, and I don't see the older lists that included Phaedosia or Bigdogstwo, so I will need addresses from you. Plesse see if you can email me through Houzz/Gardeneb/RP. If now, let me know. We'll have to figure something else out.

Rosefolly

Is it too late to join? I have reappeared after a long, long absence.

The Reader Formerly Known As Siobhan

It is absolutely not too late to join. Siobhan/J C, it is so lovely to hear from you!

And I will definitely need your address.

Rosefolly/Paula

I sent you a DM via this website - hopefully received but if not let me know, thanks!

Siobhan/JC it’s so good to hear from you again! Welcome back. 😊

Siobhan! Welcome back! I just found the group again last month, too!

Paula, I sent you an email to the gmail address I had for you in 2014. Let me know if you don’t see it.

Hi All, is it too late to join? I’d like to participate if its not too late.

Hi Christine A, it is not too late. See the note above about contacting me if your address has changed.

Phaedosia, I got your note.

J C, I originally said that I had not received your note, but I just found it buried deep in the Junk Mail folder of the email account that Houzz/RP uses, so all is good.

Siobhan! Hello again from across the years!!! Where are you living these days? I remember Boothbay... and then, Australia, I think??

PAM

RoseFolly,

Sent you an message with my address.

Thank you!

PAM

Hi, Siobhan!

Hi Rosefolly,

I just messaged my new address to you!

Apologies for the delayed response.

Christine

Okay, I just emailed the address list. I sent it outside of Houzz because sometimes Houzz doesn't recognize my password when I try to send email through it. Not sure why, as I can log on here with that same password. No doubt I am making some odd mistake.

Anyway, I harvested emails from old bookmark mailings, and one or two of you sent me new ones. I wasn't sure that the old ones were all still valid. If you did not get my email, please contact me by sending a message through Houzz (I do get their messages) with your current email address.

As always, check the accuracy of the address I used and let me know if I have made any mistakes. You will have my email address, both of them, the rose folly one (sent to) and the one I use for Houzz (sent from). I check the sent from one more frequently.

My address is perfect!

Hi RoseFolly, I did not get the email although my email is the same. I will reach out to you via houzz to confirm. I did check junk file as well. Thank you for your efforts!

PAM

PAM, the email address you just sent me is the one I used. I found it from years ago. Perhaps I made a typo. I will try sending it again, maybe from my other email account.

My address is correct 🙂

Thanks RoseFolly! I received the second one. Thanks for resending. My last name changed but my address did not so all should be well. THANKS AGAIN!

PAM

Christine_a, I received your postal address but it seems that I do not have your current email address. The one I am using keeps failing. Please send me a message to update me with the one you are using thses days. Thanks.

Rosefolly, i just messaged my email address to you. Thanks again!

I am pleased to have sent my bookmarks off today and I will also take this opportunity to apologise for my humble offering. I had some grandiose plans, but quickly realised that time is not on my side - it normally takes about three weeks for mail to arrive. And at this time of year, who knows? The post office is not promising anything regarding international mail. And so I figured that a humble offering that arrives before Christmas is better than one that arrives in February!

I am sending mine out today; I don’t think I have ever managed to send mine out this early! 😊

It may seem obvious but could someone explain exactly what the bookmark exchange is and how it works. I see it mentioned every year but am not sure of the details. Thanks.

Ginny12. It started several years ago when one of our members came up with the idea that we would send each person who signed up for it a Christmas card along with a bookmark. It lapsed for a while then someone, I forget who now, started it up again and it’s been going since then

Thank you for the explanation, Rouan. Sorry to take so long to reply but I can only get into RP on my desktop, not my iPad or phone, grrr. A problem when I'm away from home. The exchange seems like fun.

On the subject of bookmarks. I save cards from people, Christmas and otherwise, if they are pretty or have a nice note. I have lots stuck in various books and it's always a pleasure to come across them and enjoy them all over again.

I have not been able to participate but have enjoyed reading the descriptions and seeing pix of some clever and inventive ones over the years.

Although I do have some bookmarks, I usually stick whatever is to hand to mark pages. Often it is a till slip from my shopping! My conscientious Support Workers always pop them in with library books they have picked up for me!

mine are going out this weekend.

Siobhan - I am excited to receive all of the bookmarks! In the past, some were fancy, some were not - but it was always fun and I still have ALLLLLL of them!

PAM

Ginny12, in case you are interested in joining us, I have a few bookmarks left just waiting to go to a good home…😉

Rouan, That is so thoughtful of you. But I can't participate this year so I send many thanks for your nice offer. I hope you have a very Merry Christmas!

My bookmarks went out today. I am crossing my fingers and toes that mine make it to Australia prior to Christmas. Christine

I wrote and addressed all of my cards this week and set them aside to mail today and can’t find them! I tore the house and car up looking for them. Tomorrow, I’m going to offer the kids a $5 reward if they find my stack of cards. So, I may have to get some new bookmarks and cards and you will receive another set when I find them in six months. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Phaedosia, I could do with kids to find things I mislay at home!

I recall that one of our members once found a whole stack of Xmas cards she thought she had sent! Sure you didn't mail them? I find things I have done without realising as some tasks are so repetitive! Good to find the bed already made up, e.g.!

Friends, I am just finishing addressing and stamping the bookmark exchange cards, and plan to drop them in the mail in the morning. These especially long cards (to fit the bookmarks) have an odd opening at one end instead of at the top. With no particular evidence for it, I was dubious about the adhesive, so I added a bit of tape to each. I'm telling you this so that you won't think someone opened them before they reached you.

Found them! You folks will appreciate this, they were on my…..bookshelf. 🤦🏻‍♀️ My husband had called me into the front room to see something on the computer and I must have set them down. They went out in the mail ysterday. Phew!

Mine are also in the mail and on their way! Thank you for those I've already received!!! I've started three more books simultaneously just to use the bookmarks.

PAM

I received several cards/bookmarks in the mail today. It was fun opening them and seeing what a lovely selection of bookmarks arrived! 😊

I'm waiting on two more to arrive. I enjoy opening them all at the same time. But I may give in to suspense.this year. This is always so much fun,

Today I received the final RP card. With Christmas music playing in the background, I had a lovely time opening the cards and enjoying all the bookmarks. My thanks to everyone who participated this years! I wish you all a happy holiday season.

We sent out a lot of cards this year in part as a way to distribute our new address to all our friends. The return has been pretty sparse. Fewer and fewer people are sending cards these days, as I'm sure you have all noticed yourselves.

I have long since filled the box that holds my earlier bookmarks. I decided to put this year's and as well as the past couple of years' somewhere I would look at see and think of them regularly, but in a place where the grandchildren would not get them. Here is a picture of that new place in a small crock on a top bookshelf..

Thank you everyone! It was lovely to receive the cards and bookmarks!

PAM