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February 28, 2011

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DIY | book pages wreath

I had an awesome weekend which included eating homemade crepes, discovering the beauty of West Virginia, drinking lots of flavored coffee, taking some fun pictures, spending time with family and finishing my first 5 credits of French.  
My weekend started well on Friday night, making this wreath made out of book pages and eating creamy tomato soup and cheese paninis.  
I didn’t think of the wreath project all by myself.  A few weekends ago, Susanna and I discovered this little shop, Urban Farmhouse.  They sell a variety unique vintage finds on the cheap.  In the back of the shop, they’ve got an Anthropologie-esque room, literally overflowing with creativity, including the inspiration for this wreath.  I snapped a few pics, waited patiently to find the supplies I needed at the thrift store, and then headed out to WV this weekend.  
Here’s the final product:

Supply list:
  • Elmer’s glue (mixed with water)
  • Scissors
  • Paintbrush 
  • Wreath form (mine was wicker, and I got it for $0.75 at the thrift store) 
  • Newspaper (which will be completely covered at the end)
  • Vintage book with yellowed, crusty pages (mine was a French-English dictionary)
  • Hot glue gun (with lots of extra glue sticks)
  • Ribbon (to hang your wreath!)
How to:
Mix together the glue and water until it’s nice and smooth.

Pull the binding off the book (if you’re careful, you can save the book cover for later) and separate the pages.

After covering the wreath with newspaper and the glue+water mixture, here’s what it looked like.  

Next, just fold up the paper like so.

And hot glue it to the wreath.

Some more…

The finished product.

At the end, I covered up the underneath layer of newspaper (what was still showing) with strips of pages from the French-English dictionary, because newspaper peaking through wasn’t very pretty.  But the newspaper was nice, because it kept the wicker hidden and gave the wreath a good base layer to work on.  
Isn’t it just fantastic?  I just adore the crispy book pages.  And all the french words.  
till tomorrow,
Rebecca
  1. Olivia says:
    February 28, 2011 at 1:37 pm

    This is SOOO cute! I'm totally adding that to my "to try" list of projects!

    Reply
  2. Russell says:
    February 28, 2011 at 3:18 pm

    that's totally my book! you got that in lost and found didn't you….

    i would ask for it back but you've made it into such a sick lost and found creation…

    Reply
  3. Sarah says:
    March 1, 2011 at 4:26 am

    I love it!!!

    Reply

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