Comments on: http://www.femmerotic.com/journal/2007/04/30/hrm/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:46:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: Angie http://www.femmerotic.com/journal/2007/04/30/hrm/#comment-9764 Tue, 08 May 2007 18:35:58 +0000 http://www.femmerotic.com/journal/2007/04/30/hrm/#comment-9764 I like the idea of the nipple print for my bf but thats neither here nor there! ;) haha I like the idea of just making it unique in your own personal way. The lips are a cute idea but what shade <a href="http://www.makeuptip.com" rel="nofollow">lipstick</a>would you use? I like the idea of the nipple print for my bf but thats neither here nor there! ;) haha

I like the idea of just making it unique in your own personal way. The lips are a cute idea but what shade lipstickwould you use?

]]> by: Stephen L http://www.femmerotic.com/journal/2007/04/30/hrm/#comment-9448 Thu, 03 May 2007 08:19:59 +0000 http://www.femmerotic.com/journal/2007/04/30/hrm/#comment-9448 I'd combine a couple of the ideas above. I think signature stamps do feel impersonal on their own, but if people got a signature stamp *and* a thumbprint that feels much more like they got a piece of you, as well as something that will make sense in future (rather than someone going "hmm what's with the thumbprint". I like the sign half before and half after idea as well, if the numbers are not so huge that both would be painful. I’d combine a couple of the ideas above. I think signature stamps do feel impersonal on their own, but if people got a signature stamp *and* a thumbprint that feels much more like they got a piece of you, as well as something that will make sense in future (rather than someone going “hmm what’s with the thumbprint”. I like the sign half before and half after idea as well, if the numbers are not so huge that both would be painful.

]]> by: Molly http://www.femmerotic.com/journal/2007/04/30/hrm/#comment-9444 Wed, 02 May 2007 23:31:28 +0000 http://www.femmerotic.com/journal/2007/04/30/hrm/#comment-9444 Different than a rubber stamp, and a bit more personal (or at least, personal-feeling) is a sticker with your name/signiture on it. We used to do these at work events with 600+ people. We would design bookplates with a blank, white space on them, and send them to the speaker/author before the event. They signed the bookplates at their lesiure, and we slapped the stickers into the books before the event. You could slap the stickers into the books rather than signing them, and that way people would still get the experience of waiting in line to talk to you, and you wouldn't have to write so much. Also, you could have a signing party with a few friends before the events; if the people at the event don't SEE you sign your name, they won't necessarily know it wasn't you who signed the bookplates. Different than a rubber stamp, and a bit more personal (or at least, personal-feeling) is a sticker with your name/signiture on it. We used to do these at work events with 600+ people. We would design bookplates with a blank, white space on them, and send them to the speaker/author before the event. They signed the bookplates at their lesiure, and we slapped the stickers into the books before the event. You could slap the stickers into the books rather than signing them, and that way people would still get the experience of waiting in line to talk to you, and you wouldn’t have to write so much. Also, you could have a signing party with a few friends before the events; if the people at the event don’t SEE you sign your name, they won’t necessarily know it wasn’t you who signed the bookplates.

]]> by: Jennifer http://www.femmerotic.com/journal/2007/04/30/hrm/#comment-9432 Wed, 02 May 2007 15:47:22 +0000 http://www.femmerotic.com/journal/2007/04/30/hrm/#comment-9432 Heather: The book signing events I've attended usually involve a reading by the author. Could you change the format of the event so that you do some signing before the event and some after? Or so that it's more like a cocktail party, where you sign intermittently? That's assuming, I guess, that resting your hand between signatures will actually help.... And I would second the chop idea before the rubber stamp. Or the very short signature, like a heart symbol followed by "H.C." (This could also come off as sort of cheesy, so it depends on whether you're comfortable with that.) Good luck! I'm hoping you're coming somewhere close to my town--I would love to come cheer you on! Jennifer Heather:

The book signing events I’ve attended usually involve a reading by the author. Could you change the format of the event so that you do some signing before the event and some after? Or so that it’s more like a cocktail party, where you sign intermittently? That’s assuming, I guess, that resting your hand between signatures will actually help….

And I would second the chop idea before the rubber stamp. Or the very short signature, like a heart symbol followed by “H.C.” (This could also come off as sort of cheesy, so it depends on whether you’re comfortable with that.)

Good luck! I’m hoping you’re coming somewhere close to my town–I would love to come cheer you on!

Jennifer

]]> by: Pierre http://www.femmerotic.com/journal/2007/04/30/hrm/#comment-9407 Tue, 01 May 2007 19:55:55 +0000 http://www.femmerotic.com/journal/2007/04/30/hrm/#comment-9407 While it may not be your culture, per se, instead of a rubber stamp you might consider getting a proper chop done in stone and some red ink. It would strike me as less tacky, certainly, than a script signature in rubber, and has the benefit of centuries of tradition somewhere on the globe. While it may not be your culture, per se, instead of a rubber stamp you might consider getting a proper chop done in stone and some red ink. It would strike me as less tacky, certainly, than a script signature in rubber, and has the benefit of centuries of tradition somewhere on the globe.

]]> by: Emma http://www.femmerotic.com/journal/2007/04/30/hrm/#comment-9390 Tue, 01 May 2007 02:22:49 +0000 http://www.femmerotic.com/journal/2007/04/30/hrm/#comment-9390 I don't think the stamp idea is tacky, either, so long as it's a really nice stamp and expresses your artistry. Not sure exactly how this would work, but you could try a finger paint type thing? I don’t think the stamp idea is tacky, either, so long as it’s a really nice stamp and expresses your artistry.

Not sure exactly how this would work, but you could try a finger paint type thing?

]]> by: Zelig http://www.femmerotic.com/journal/2007/04/30/hrm/#comment-9389 Tue, 01 May 2007 02:03:51 +0000 http://www.femmerotic.com/journal/2007/04/30/hrm/#comment-9389 Perhaps if you used a pen with a really really fat middle, or a huge chunk of foam wrapped around it, you wouldn't be gripping it as much, and then it wouldn't be as much of an issue? I don't know, I'm just thinking out loud. Then you also get to use the big muscles in your arm and shoulder to sign in a bigger hand, rather than trying to write small. Mmmmm.... put the pen down between signings, so that your hand unclenches? Oooooh ooooh, I have it! Teacher teacher, call on me! Sign your name in an ideogram, with a brush, like Chinese / Japanese calligraphy! Oh yeah, that's gripping too. Well, think about it ... Perhaps if you used a pen with a really really fat middle, or a huge chunk of foam wrapped around it, you wouldn’t be gripping it as much, and then it wouldn’t be as much of an issue? I don’t know, I’m just thinking out loud.

Then you also get to use the big muscles in your arm and shoulder to sign in a bigger hand, rather than trying to write small.

Mmmmm…. put the pen down between signings, so that your hand unclenches?

Oooooh ooooh, I have it! Teacher teacher, call on me!
Sign your name in an ideogram, with a brush, like Chinese / Japanese calligraphy!

Oh yeah, that’s gripping too. Well, think about it …

]]> by: Shawn http://www.femmerotic.com/journal/2007/04/30/hrm/#comment-9386 Tue, 01 May 2007 00:42:05 +0000 http://www.femmerotic.com/journal/2007/04/30/hrm/#comment-9386 I used my boob as a stamp once to give a signature. If you aren't up for lip prints, you could always nipple print. Although it does leave your breast inky for a while which is kind of yucky. or you could potato stamp like you were 5. :) I used my boob as a stamp once to give a signature. If you aren’t up for lip prints, you could always nipple print. Although it does leave your breast inky for a while which is kind of yucky.

or you could potato stamp like you were 5. :)

]]> by: Lioness http://www.femmerotic.com/journal/2007/04/30/hrm/#comment-9385 Tue, 01 May 2007 00:27:54 +0000 http://www.femmerotic.com/journal/2007/04/30/hrm/#comment-9385 I'll be your trusty assistant and sign it FOR you. Hell, I'll even kiss it for you. -grin- My semester is done in about a week and a half and WE WILL SEE EACH OTHER. Cheers! I’ll be your trusty assistant and sign it FOR you.
Hell, I’ll even kiss it for you.
-grin-
My semester is done in about a week and a half and WE WILL SEE EACH OTHER.
Cheers!

]]> by: Kythryne http://www.femmerotic.com/journal/2007/04/30/hrm/#comment-9382 Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:19:26 +0000 http://www.femmerotic.com/journal/2007/04/30/hrm/#comment-9382 I third the lipstick print idea. Or could you learn to scrawl something resembling a signature with your non-dominant hand? I third the lipstick print idea. Or could you learn to scrawl something resembling a signature with your non-dominant hand?

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