I've seen similar purses before being sold on Etsy. You can literally take any hardback book (one made from a favorite book when you were a child would be fun) and have it made into a clutch bag.
The reader in me is a bit appalled at gutting something so sacred as a book (no sacrilege meant) but the crafter/recycler in me squeals with delight seeing something that may have been doomed to sit in bargain bins and rummage sales forever have a new lease on life.
I love it! I love to read, but I often buy beloved books more because I want to display my smarts for my visitors than because I really plan on re-reading the book (for reading purposes, I'm completely contented with the public libraries). So the book becomes little more than a clutterous decoration. With the book purse, however, I can get a *functional object* that simultaneously advertises my intellectual pretensions. And not just to people who happen to visit me -- to EVERYONE ON THE STREET!
I've seen similar purses before being sold on Etsy. You can literally take any hardback book (one made from a favorite book when you were a child would be fun) and have it made into a clutch bag.
ReplyDeleteThe reader in me is a bit appalled at gutting something so sacred as a book (no sacrilege meant) but the crafter/recycler in me squeals with delight seeing something that may have been doomed to sit in bargain bins and rummage sales forever have a new lease on life.
I love it! I love to read, but I often buy beloved books more because I want to display my smarts for my visitors than because I really plan on re-reading the book (for reading purposes, I'm completely contented with the public libraries). So the book becomes little more than a clutterous decoration. With the book purse, however, I can get a *functional object* that simultaneously advertises my intellectual pretensions. And not just to people who happen to visit me -- to EVERYONE ON THE STREET!
ReplyDeleteBrilliant!