Thanksgiving Place Settings [Kids Table]

Thanksgiving Kids Table Place Settings from Lisa Storms

Lisa Storms has done it again.  Last year her fun Thanksgiving table settings for the kids table were my absolute favorite, and this year her cute Thanksgiving place setting ideas are just as fabulous.

And she even has some fun ideas for the adult table, like this book page turkey.  And you know how much I love craft ideas using book pages.

You can check out all of Lisa's fabulous Thanksgiving ideas over at Fiskars.

Book Page Leaf Garland and Wreath [DIY Fall Decor]

DIY Book Page Leaf Garland from Pretty Handy Girl

Monogram Book [Altered Book]

Monogram Book from Ashbee Design

Easter Egg Banner

Easter Egg Banner from Creations by Kara

Book Page Christmas Trees

Book Page Christmas Tree from Free Stylin'

Paper Petal Lanterns

Tissue Paper Petal Lanterns from The Crafts Department

Book Lamp DIY

Book Lamp from Chameleon Girls

Book Christmas Tree

Margo was inspired by this Anthropologie window display:

And created a book tree of her own:

There are a lot of fun projects for old books and book pages, so if you don't have old books lying around that you aren't attached too, they are a good thing to look out for at garage sales and thrift stores.

You can check out the book tree over at Margo's Junkin' Journal.

Book Page Christmas Tree

That super cute ruffled Christmas tree was inspired by another super cute Christmas tree:

This one is from Life Abundant and was made out of book pages.  You could make an entire forest of these!

Paperback Monsters

It was Halloween two years ago when I fell in love with these:

Since then I have seen old books and the pages of old books used in a lot of great way.  This year Jean's Crafty Corner added to the collection with some cute paperback Monster's:

Do you have any crafty projects using old books?  I would love to see them!

Made It On Monday used an old book to make these:

And then used the book leaves to make this:

I love crafty uses for old books, like these jack-o-lanterns:

I need to dig mine out of the boxes and see how they held up from last year!

Altered Book Ornament

Because I have a thing for torturing old paperback books:

I found this cute thing at Totally Tutorials. You can see the full tutorial at Family Fun Tips.

Vintage Halloween Garland

Junk Garden Girl posted some pictures of different Halloween garlands. This one was my favorite:


It looks like they used pages from an old book or vintage cards with Halloween images. The only problem is I have NO IDEA where to get either of those. But I do think it would be fun to use the same idea and print out some of the Halloween labels that are floating around, like theses:



I think I love this idea...but I think it is going to have to wait until next year! Someone remind me next year, okay!

Paperback Vase

I found these Paperback Vases by Sweet Paul:

And thought I would post them because they remind me of these:



I love what people do with old paperback books. The jack-o-lanterns are still my favorite.

So here is another craft with something that you can repurpose! If you don't have any paperback books of your own, go rescue some from a garage sale.

Happy Earth Day!

Paperback Writer

First these:

then these:

and now these:


I should have held on to more of my old paperbacks!

Paperback Apples

Remember these paperback pumpkins?

I think these paperback apples would be a great for a teachers desk:

And it is almost as easy as the pumpkin:


You can see the step by step tutorial here on cheeky magpies blog.

Paperback Pumpkins

I found the instructions for paperback pumpkins at Country Home and knew I HAD to give it a try! It was something that I actually HAD all of the supplies for (probably because there aren't many) so I didn't have to go out and spend any money!!

Here is the image from their site:

picture from Country Home

My first attempt didn't come out this cute, but my second one (which is still in the works) will!

First you need this:

Well, not exactly THAT paperback book, but a paperback book. This happened to be one of about a MILLION that we had in our garage. My husband is a reader. And from the looks of the book collection that is in our garage he always has been.

Make sure that you use a book that you aren't going to miss. And make sure it isn't your husbands autographed Joe Torre book. Oops! Actually this wasn't the autographed one. But when I told Hubby I was making a Halloween decoration out of his Joe Torre book he THOUGHT it was his autographed one. That was fun!

If you don't have a paperback book that you won't miss, I bet you can find one at a garage sale for pretty stinking cheap. Or I have a million in my garage I can send you!

Next you do this:


Start at the back of the book (I don't think it really matters, but I liked being able to look at the page numbers and see how many pages I had left to fold) and just fold the page in half. I am sure there are people that will take their time and make them all neat. And I am sure it will be super cute if you do. I got mine done in about 15 minutes and had to check math homework in that time. It is still cute!

See:

All that is left is to take some black paper and cut out a face. My Joe Torre book wasn't the best choice (it had pictures in it so it took away from the text look and gave Mr. Jack O Lantern a funny line down his face).

So don't choose a book with pictures.

I am on my third one will post a picture when they are all done!

Happy book folding!

PS. Iif you notice in the first picture that there is one that has a pointed top instead of a flat top, just fold the top corner of the page down. I actually did this to the pumpkin above after I took the pictures. It made the photo pages less noticeable.