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How to make a purse/clutch from a Book

How to make a purse/clutch from a Book

12 Crafts Perfect for Librarians From coffee mugs to pasties (!), here are some of the coolest crafts we hope to see popping up soon in a library near us. 1. The Mug Who Lived With so many cute book-inspired coffee cups for sale out there, there is no excuse for any librarian to be sipping out of a boring white coffee cup. 2. Always remember to bring along a book to read, but forget to take your keys and wallet? 3. Here’s another great use for old damaged books—turn them into adorable planters. 4. Maybe it’s just me, but I think your teapot looks lonely. 5. Librarians are known for crossing their t’s and dotting their i’s, so it’s no big stretch for them to move on to crossing some stitches and making great needlework designs. 6. For the more edgy librarians, it never hurts to show off your sense of humor by parodying 90’s hip hop songs with book-inspired cross stitches. 7. 8. What does a turkey have to do with librarian crafts? 9. 10. 11. 12.

I’ll Never Ever Look At Books The Same Again After Seeing These Hidden Messages. Wow. It’s very possible that one of your battered old books contains an amazing secret called a “fore-edge painting,” which is an illustration that is hidden on the edge of the pages of the book. The technique allegedly dates back to the 1650s. You can see the painting by bending together the pages of the book, just so you can see a small piece of each page. Autumn by Robert Mudie / Special Collections & University Archives at the University of Iowa So much time and dedication was put into this, the results speak for themselves. Winter by Robert Mudie / Special Collections & University Archives at the University of Iowa There are even books that have double fore-edge paintings, where a different image can be seen by flipping the book over and fanning the pages in the opposite direction. Spring by Robert Mudie / Special Collections & University Archives at the University of Iowa Summer by Robert Mudie / Special Collections & University Archives at the University of Iowa

Houses Made of Books | BOOK RIOTHouses Made of Books Livio De Marchi is a bonkers-talented Venetian woodworker and sculptor who has created- wait for it- ENTIRE HOUSES made of hand-carved book sculptures. There’s one in Tambre D’Alpago, Italy, Germany, and Japan, and every aspect of the houses are book-themed. The chair looks like book leather and binding, and the dining “furniture” is…BOOKS. Another view of the dining room table and the “book” shelves. Of course you walk through reading glasses to get to it. See more at the artist’s website! And your bookshelves can’t deny. NOW AND THEN: Paper Crafts « Decor Arts Now By Lynn Byrne. How cool are these dresses! They are constructed of paper! I spotted them in the window of an Anthropologie store. Earlier that weekend, I stumbled across this display up in Stamford. What are those things hanging on the wall in the back of the booth? Then there was the David Stark pop up paper store at West Elm last spring. Paper crafts are having a moment. Of course, people have been crafting with paper for centuries. Photo from the California State Univ.website (no photographer credit) The blog Style Hive posted this collage showing orgami-inspired fashion and home furnishings (note ottoman in bottom left) back in 2007, but in this instance, the paper craft is interpreted with fabric! Back in Victorian times, many families decorated their trees with paper ornaments. Photo from Family Christmas Online Finally, since we are talking about paper crafts, I can’t forget the fabulous Mrs. Are you ready to get crafty?

Make an awesome Harry Potter wand from a sheet of paper and glue gun glue Now that Harry Potter fever is upon us once more, I thought you would like to have a go at making some really nice Harry Potter Wands. This is such a simple but effective instructable. With a sheet of paper, some glue and a bit of paint, and about 40 minutes to spare this instructable will show you how you can make a Harry Potter type wand that would not look out of place in the film itself. If you like this but want more of a challenge which not try it with added magic in the instructable A really magic Harry Potter wand for Lumos and Reveal Your Secrets charms, you get to make a wand with a UV LED at the tip that can reveal secret and otherwise invisible writing.

dadcando.com - The world famous resource for fathers and their children, helping dads be heroes to their kids Creative Compulsive Disorder: Remembering Zina Nicole Lahr This short clip about artist and maker Zina Nicole Lahr may be as tragic as it is beautiful. Earlier this fall Lahr approached her friend Stormy Pyeatte and asked if they might shoot a quick video for her portfolio. The video was shot and edited in just two days and demonstrates Lahr’s insatiable desire to build, invent, and “bring life to something inanimate,” a process she called her “creative compulsive disorder.” Almost unthinkably, Lahr was killed in a hiking accident in Colorado on November 20th, a few weeks after this was shot. I didn’t know Lahr, but if this brief glimpse into her life is any indicator it’s clear she possessed an extremely rare spirit that feels completely genuine and infectious. It seems she was involved in practically every genre of creativity we normally cover here on Colossal.

'Pride and Prejudice' has been reimagined as a computer game - with Elizabeth Bennet constantly on the run through the classic text - Gaming - Gadgets & Tech The fault, you see, lay not in the book, but its method of delivery: It was presented by a new video game, Stride & Prejudice, which is "an endless runner based on Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen", according to its tagline. This isn't your usual "based on" video-game adaptation of literature, such as the 2010 hack'n'slash inspired by Dante's Inferno, or the interactive version of The Great Gatsby (see below). In Stride & Prejudice, the book is the game, its words forming a steady succession of platforms that your character, Elizabeth Bennet, runs and jumps across. It's a 2D sidescroller, like Mario, except that you don't have to worry about moving the character forward. Stride & Prejudice offers two ways to play. It is a truth universally acknowledged, [tap the screen, Ryan!] that a single man in possession [tap now!] of a good fortune, [jump!] must be in want of a wife. Now, it's easy to give in to the kind of predictable tut-tutting that Stride & Prejudice invites at first glance. Some.

Mental health break: Ingenious stop-motion Coursekit is now Lore. What’s the Story? Art & Design Mental health break: Ingenious stop-motion animation made entirely of office supplies by Guillaume Blanchet – a lovely addition to this compendium of office supply art. (via Colossal) #stop-motion#animation#art 272 notes

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