It's that wonderful time of year when I start thinking about making Christmas gifts. Today, I looked around on Pinterest, aka "internet crack", for Christmas craft ideas.
While working at the library, I have seen many interesting ways to repurpose old books. For the 50th anniversary of one of our library branches, a coworker made a birthday cake out of books. It was really very pretty. Last Christmas, we had a Christmas tree built out of active library books. These ideas got me thinking that there must be SOMETHING I can make from old, discarded books. While searching for Christmas card holder crafts, I found one made out of a hard cover book. If you fold all the pages in half, it makes a big fan to stick the cards in. You can decorate the book any way you would like. I used a gold stamp pad to make the book look even older. I found a sprig of Christmas fun and ended up with...
As my blog title says, I love to read. In this blog, I will write about books I'm reading, have read, or plan to read. I will also discuss book reading technology (eBooks, the cloud) and anything to do with books, book writing, book discussion.
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I am retiring my Blogger blogs. Starting today, June 16, 2018 my blog posts will be found at https://thislife225879410.wordpress.com
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