craft – Page 4 – Dumpling in a Hanky

Looking and quoting

You won’t want to draw the line at just showing book bits around your home, do you? You want images and art for your walls, and cards to send to all and sundry, featuring books and book quotes in all their formats? So feast your eyes on these!

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This is a popular quote…and tea seems to feature in book prints quite frequently!

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Bits-o-books

As a true book lover, you’ll be keen to decorate your home with things made from bits-o’-books, and book related items, won’t you?

To begin with, you can welcome people in to your home with a nice decorative wreath on your door:

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Once you’re inside, you’ll be looking for a nice way to store the books that you want to keep to read. This is an unusual take on the traditional way of keeping books on shelves…

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However, if you stick with a traditional bookcase style, you’ll need some bookends…how about keeping things in place with a slice of the outside world, and its strata?

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But you don’t want time to run away from you, while you’re buried in your books. So maybe a clock would be a wise investment?

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Don’t strain your eyes when reading your favourite tome: invest in a nice little light to illuminate your reading material.

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For the ladies, a pretty place to store jewellery is always a bonus, and if it’s got all sorts of drawers and illuminations, all the better!

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And for the festive season, show off your favourite books in the form of a bauble. Unfortunately, you will have to shred them in order to do that…

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Wearing the books out…

Of course, books aren’t just for reading, hiding, cutting up, and taking photos of. You can also adorn yourself with them, in all sorts of formats. So here’s a few examples of some snazzy book-based wearables.

Lets start with the rings.

Mini book + ring = cool.

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Mini book + secret compartment ring = awesome.

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And of course, you can always go for a necklace book. Extra geek points if you choose this one.

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Would you prefer your books to be a bit closer to you? Say, on your wrist? Here, you can either have the books in their mini entirety, or as a section of a full size one…

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Or perhaps you’d like them on your ears?

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And you can make sure your mobile phone doesn’t unloved, with this phone charm.

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But you’ll be needing to keep your body well clothed too. How about a nice top or two?

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Can’t leave your feet out though, can we? How about some comic-covered high heels?

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But watch out: it’s still not quite warm enough to be venturing out without a nice, cosy scarf on, is it?

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It’s a cover up…

The modern version of the traditional physical book is now an eReader, whether that’s a Kindle, Nook, iPad, Kobo, or any other random bit of kit you might be using.

Perhaps these eReaders are perhaps just a bit too jarringly modern looking for you? Too shiny, too plasticky, to grey/black/white?

Wouldn’t it be nice if it looked like a proper, classic old book?