Recycling Books Into Vases

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Today I discovered the craft of turning old books into vases so I'm going to give it a try...mind you, I lay claim to no artistic talents whatsoever but this looks fairly uncomplicated.

I'm going to use this as my pattern:
www.etsy.com/listing/473718441/book-becomes-the-vase-folded-book-art?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=book%20vase&ref=sr_gallery_5


I read a leatherbound book is great for using so went to the library's used book section  plus a book to practice on.

I found this leather set of Shakespeare's complete works for $4!!!!

I will go to Michael's for a good quality silk flower as either of my recipient's have a green thumb....one will be tulips and the other gardenia or carnation

nothing ventured, nothing gained.

[men an tol]

Aug 9, 2017 19:59:06 GMT -5 @chefmate51 said:

Today I discovered the craft of turning old books into vases so I'm going to give it a try...mind you, I lay claim to no artistic talents whatsoever but this looks fairly uncomplicated.

I'm going to use this as my pattern:
www.etsy.com/listing/473718441/book-becomes-the-vase-folded-book-art?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=book%20vase&ref=sr_gallery_5


I read a leatherbound book is great for using so went to the library's used book section  plus a book to practice on.

I found this leather set of Shakespeare's complete works for $4!!!!

I will go to Michael's for a good quality silk flower as either of my recipient's have a green thumb....one will be tulips and the other gardenia or carnation

nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Chef Mate, I hope you have success with the book-vase thing.

I must admit that for me never do harm to a book. But that is only me.

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Aug 9, 2017 20:32:30 GMT -5 men an tol said:

Aug 9, 2017 19:59:06 GMT -5 @chefmate51 said:

Today I discovered the craft of turning old books into vases so I'm going to give it a try...mind you, I lay claim to no artistic talents whatsoever but this looks fairly uncomplicated.

I'm going to use this as my pattern:
www.etsy.com/listing/473718441/book-becomes-the-vase-folded-book-art?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=book%20vase&ref=sr_gallery_5


I read a leatherbound book is great for using so went to the library's used book section  plus a book to practice on.

I found this leather set of Shakespeare's complete works for $4!!!!

I will go to Michael's for a good quality silk flower as either of my recipient's have a green thumb....one will be tulips and the other gardenia or carnation


nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Chef Mate, I hope you have success with the book-vase thing.

I must admit that for me never do harm to a book. But that is only me.

I tend to share your viewpoint so that is why I will give new life to Shakespeare

[men an tol]

Aug 9, 2017 23:31:14 GMT -5 @chefmate51 said:

Aug 9, 2017 20:32:30 GMT -5 men an tol said:

Chef Mate, I hope you have success with the book-vase thing.

I must admit that for me never do harm to a book. But that is only me.

I tend to share your viewpoint so that is why I will give new life to Shakespeare

A suggestion that might help. At library used book sales they often have many Reader Digest annual books that are very salable. There are often encyclopedias with attractive covers

EDIT: I reread my posting and it reads almost opposite of what I intended:

The reader Digest annual books are nearly impossible to sell and there are old and sometimes not so salable encyclopedias and they may work for what you do wit them. Even so, I would have a very difficult time to alter any book that way.

What we would do is gather up those books which simply didn't sell and donate them to other organizations, for instance we took a pickup load of such books to the main prison in our State for prisoners to read. They really liked the books.

[Sysop3]

Many people would feel that way about tearing up a book. It would bother me, too. Even more would be a deep dislike for making a vase. There are cheap vases everywhere.

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I don't share your opinion

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Sys....I guess a purse made out of a recycled book wouldn't be of interest to you as a gift for someone

[Sysop3]

Nope. Maybe the generation coming up behind this one will turn books into an antiquity of no importance, but I have respect for them.

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Aug 11, 2017 1:21:15 GMT -5 Sysop3 said:

Nope. Maybe the generation coming up behind this one will turn books into an antiquity of no importance, but I have respect for them.

quick question....what about books that are at my library for fifty cents and eventually will be disposed of?

[Sysop3]

Aug 11, 2017 1:31:57 GMT -5 @chefmate51 said:

Aug 11, 2017 1:21:15 GMT -5 Sysop3 said:

Nope. Maybe the generation coming up behind this one will turn books into an antiquity of no importance, but I have respect for them.

quick question....what about books that are at my library for fifty cents and eventually will be disposed of?

There's nothing "wrong" with it but old customs die hard. I couldn't do it.

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Sys...don't know if this will ease your mind about books being recycled into vases etc., but I've recently read the glue in some of the older books cannot be recycled so it is far better, imho, for them to be repurposed rather than face the exile to a stinky landfill.

[mouse]

i would once have been horrified at the decimation of books..
but now realise that we really do not need so many old books..especially things like novels etc which came in so many editions
and times change.. so we lose some books.. just the same way as many tablets were broken or lost .. but language went on regardless
and the important pieces of language will live in progression from tablet to book and from book to computer.. where next