{"id":22341,"date":"2022-10-28T16:10:37","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T20:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=22341"},"modified":"2022-10-28T16:10:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T20:10:37","slug":"author-signed-bookplates-flash-crochet-tool-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/author-signed-bookplates-flash-crochet-tool-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Author-Signed Bookplates (&#038; Flash Crochet Tool Sale)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only 4 days to go until my new book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/everyday-crochet\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Everyday Crochet<\/a>, launches! There&#8217;s no way I can sell signed copies of this book (the shipping costs would be far too high &#8211; it&#8217;s almost 300 pages and weighs 2lb\/900g!), so please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/ecamazon\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">order it directly from amazon<\/a> or your local bookstore.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/bookplate.jpg\" alt=\"Author-Signed Bookplate: June Gilbank\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But, if you&#8217;d like me to sign your book for you, I&#8217;ve commissioned a professionally printed high quality bookplate sticker with easy-peel backing, perfectly sized at 2&#215;4&#8243; (~5x10cm) to fit in the empty space on the first page of any of my books.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/bookplate3.jpg\" alt=\"Author-Signed Bookplate: June Gilbank\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Each bookplate sticker will be signed personally to you by me, June Gilbank, so you can get a &#8216;signed&#8217; copy of any (or all!) of my books by sticking a bookplate directly into your copy.<\/p>\n<p>Or, if you&#8217;re giving my book as a gift, why not give a &#8216;signed&#8217; copy by sticking a bookplate &#8211; signed personally to your recipient &#8211; into the book before you gift it?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/bookplate2.jpg\" alt=\"Author-Signed Bookplate: back side with easy-peel backing\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The easy-peel sticker backing is split on the back, so you can gently bend the bookplate to peel off each section of the backing from the middle &#8211; there&#8217;s no struggling to peel the sticker from a corner and potentially ruining the corner!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=10&#038;products_id=399\">Get your author-signed bookplates now >><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Crochet Tools &#8211; Flash Sale!<\/h2>\n<p>For this weekend only, I&#8217;m also re-opening the Crochet Tools shop, so you can combine shipping if there&#8217;s anything else you need. I have very limited quantities this time around, and the shop won&#8217;t be open again for the best part of a year, so if you need a Detail Stuffing Tool, an exclusive PJ enamel pin, or anything else, now&#8217;s your chance! <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/tools_all.jpg\" alt=\"PlanetJune Crochet Tools: detail stuffing tools &#038; handles, stitch markers, needles, enamel pins, stickers\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/tools\">Browse my collection of essential crochet tools &#038; pins now >><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Note: If you&#8217;re reading this after Oct 30th and missed the flash sale, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/list\/?p=subscribe&#038;id=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sign up here<\/a> and I&#8217;ll notify you when the Crochet Tools shop next opens.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Bookplate Availability<\/h2>\n<p>The logistics of having to batch-ship via my cross-border shipping company means I can only open the Crochet Tools shop once or twice a year &#8211; as my items are so inexpensive, it&#8217;s the only way to keep international shipping costs reasonable for you.<\/p>\n<p>But, as the bookplates (and vinyl stickers, while stocks last) can ship as lettermail, I can just drop them at the post office once a week, so I intend for the bookplates to <strong>always<\/strong> be available in the shop, so you can get a &#8216;signed&#8217; copy of Everyday Crochet at any time \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only 4 days to go until my new book, Everyday Crochet, launches! There&#8217;s no way I can sell signed copies of this book (the shipping costs would be far too high &#8211; it&#8217;s almost 300 pages and weighs 2lb\/900g!), so please order it directly from amazon or your local bookstore. But, if you&#8217;d like me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-craft-business"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}