Belated Week in Photos

We went on a few hikes this past week.  Truthfully, I sort of wish that we went a few weeks later, so that we could watch the autumn leaves fall.  But no matter the season, nature continues to endlessly fascinate me.  Late summer hiking suited me just fine.

Rebirth of a Book Part II

Firstly, happy new year.  Is it already four days into the new year?!  Time has truly flown on by, for New Year's Eve seems like it was just yesterday.  And it was really only yesterday that I opened my 2012 desktop calendar and placed it on my desk.  A true time keeper in-training, I enjoy tearing off each of the 365 pages on my desktop calendar on time, so setting it up two days late kind of bummed me out and threw me off a little...well, in an organizational, spatial sense.  I still feel like it's 1/1/12. 

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Last month, I blogged about cutting out the pages of a dirty ol' paperback (a copy of Michael Pollan's The Botany of Desire) with my husband's box cutter.  Here is what I've came up with, using the paperback's inner pages, a glue stick, colored cardstock, miscellaneous magazine clippings, and cotton twine:

Notecards/giftcards made with each chapter's title (each chapter's title is a human desire, and the plant that humans have made to embody that very desire)

Recycled page envelopes with sage green card inserts (to go along with the text's plant theme)

I think these bookish projects came out pretty well.  A nice ending for a hard-knock copy of one of my all-time favorite books (it's fraught with wry humor, and is so well written!).  Well, in my opinion.

Rebirth of a Book

I received a book in the mail, intended as a gift for a dear friend.  Upon opening the package, I was rightfully shocked: the book was weathered, its outer pages yellowed, and cover sullied--much to my dismay.  I then did what any deeply feeling, semi-creative type would do: I salvaged the pages.  I took my husband's box cutter and gingerly cut out each page, which came out in three-to-five-page piles, with a swift swipe of the box cutter.

I made some unique items from some of these pages.  Unfortunately, I cannot share them with you right now because I have yet to download the pictures from my camera onto my computer.  I promise to share them one day soon.


If I don't blog again before Christmas, happy holidays!  I'm not really a holiday person, so this will suffice for now.  :)