Book Lovers Beware
The following post chronicles the short life of a cheap novel turned decorative wreath of historical fiction. Librarians close your eyes!
Brittany, my lovely cousin, previously asked in the comments “which book did you kill to make the wreath,” referring to the book wreath I recently slaved over made. The answer is a great book (according to reviews) called The Religion.
Thanks to the Dollar Tree, I was able to make this scholarly ringlet for only 2 bucks.
The supplies included:
• Wreath ($1 at Dollar Tree)
• Book ($1 at Dollar Tree)
• Glue gun & lots of glue sticks
Seems simple enough. I started this project psyched to add some extra holiday décor to our home on the cheap. However, I will warn anyone who chooses to take on the task of actually making this wreath that it is VERY time consuming. If, after reading this you choose to proceed, feel free follow the directions below.
1. First, start by cutting/ripping the pages out of the book. I felt a little guilty destroying a perfectly good book, but I can’t imagine that I would have actually read it if it were sitting on a book shelf just collecting dust.
2. Next, use your hot glue gun to stick a layer of book pages around the plain wreath so that it will blend in and be easier to glue the rolled pages on.
3. Then, roll up individual pages and start to glue a single layer around the wreath like so…
4. Once you have a full circle of those around, flip the wreath over and continue to glue rolled up pages around and around.
5. After about an hour, you will feel like you should be done, but there is still more work to do, so continue filling up the wreath in circles and then fill in any holes you may find to make the wreath full.
6. Repeat step number 5.
7. Cry a little because you still aren’t finished after using 300 plus pages.
8. Wipe away your tears and repeat step number 5 again.
9. Voila! Your wreath is now finally finished and you only have 20397 blisters on your fingers from the hot glue. Hang your wreath and admire your hard work.
After having the wreath up for awhile, I discovered that there were some pages that were crazy long and made the wreath look a little wonky.
So, I simply trimmed it up with some scissors to even things out. Better, right?
