Recycled packaging "R" us! Here's today's look at what I was putting on the shelf in the store. While oening a case of refried beans, I noticed there were recipes on the package, just enough and just the right size for a nice little blank book/notebook. (It's official; I now see potential books everywhere I look, out of everything I see.)
I cut the part of the package I liked into two pieces, lined them with some gold-toned card stock, and poked holes along the spine edges. I folded plain white text paper into the signatures and stitched the book with a single-needle coptic stitch in a nice red thread. If I say it who shouldn't, I'm finally getting good with this binding. This one is very neat and tight.
And I do have to say, owning a convenience/grocery store and having all this packaging laying about has certainly cut down on the cost of doing this challenge. Materials are everywhere.
What have you seen laying about today that you could make into a book?
I cut the part of the package I liked into two pieces, lined them with some gold-toned card stock, and poked holes along the spine edges. I folded plain white text paper into the signatures and stitched the book with a single-needle coptic stitch in a nice red thread. If I say it who shouldn't, I'm finally getting good with this binding. This one is very neat and tight.
And I do have to say, owning a convenience/grocery store and having all this packaging laying about has certainly cut down on the cost of doing this challenge. Materials are everywhere.
What have you seen laying about today that you could make into a book?
LOL! I love that it has recipes on the back cover! ;)
ReplyDeleteOoooh, that is so neat. And indeed you are coming to own that binding. I like that it has recipes on the front cover.
ReplyDeleterefried beans in tortilla soup? who knew! but I guess since it came on a box of refried beans, i shouldn't be surprised.
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