January 27, 2024
Like Granddaughter Like Grandmother, part 1
Early this month I texted Caroline, vis a vis her late January birthday when she’d turn 17:
do you have any particular books you’re wishing for? or a category we could dip into?
Her reply: Nothing in particular really, I like a surprise! I gravitate towards historical stuff and would like to read more fiction but am open to most things besides maybe romance, that doesn’t interest me much.
The challenges:
• first, to select both a nonfiction and fiction book Dave and I thought she’d like, and
• second, to create a customized bookmark for each book.
It is not my modus operandi to custom design bookmarks. Typically, I borrow books from my public library, have a collection of randomly created bookmarks at the ready at home for matchmaking, and count on serendipity to provide the magic of a match.
In creating bookmarks for Caroline, by contrast, I knew I’d be custom designing them to pair with the books we’d selected. I set myself the additional challenge of aiming for each bookmark to be both an indisputable match with its respective bookcover and nonspecific enough to pair satisfyingly with other books as the occasion might arise.
Not easy, I tell ya! But totally engaging.
In the nonfiction category, tapping into Caroline’s Unschool Adventures trip to Argentina a year ago, and into her having participated in both fusion partner dancing while there and attending a local tango class in her community this winter, we selected … drumroll … The Meaning of Tango: The Story of the Argentinian Dance by Christine Denniston.
1.75 x 6″; acrylic and ink on cardstock
bookmark (on right)
2024
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Thanks, Sheila!
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