WOYWW a book bounty ... a bevy of books ...

... a brace of books? a barrel of books? Well, lots anyway!

Today's WOYWW is all about books, in various states of undress ... recycled or remade.

This book is moving along with Elizabeth's altered book project. Here we are reinforcing the inside cover. On the left hand side is a rather nice piece of card I have been saving (because it is was too good to use!) Same madness logic applies to that spotty brown tissue in the centre and my ever favourite Glimmermist has been sprayed on the right hand side. It's a work in progress ...

And below is how my "desk" appears this morning, right this moment, well it did before I left to come to work so I hope it stills looks the same when I get home. (See Elizabeth, I told you my computer was in a different suburb ... that is, the one with reliable internet access anway.)

In between fiddling with the AB, I came across an idea for making books from recycled cardboard boxes. Not an astonishingly new idea of course, because I've been cutting up and using bits of cardboard from all sorts of grocery boxes for ages, and you probably have too, right?  (And large cereal boxes make great work surfaces for paint and glue.)

Here's a quick look, if you're interested ...

open the box out completely, glue and fold ALL the edges, keep in place with your special craft pegs

now it will look like a book cover (sort of)

You can see some of these "covered" in the "desk" pic above.
The tiny lilac one in the bottom left hand corner is kind of finished, with hand sewn pages.
There's more to be done, come back next week for another exciting instalment of book recycling, one way or another!

Oh, and I was going to show you my latest op shop goodies,

but that's enough for now, right?

And, the whole point of this "show and tell" is to see what everyone else is up to

this fine Wednesday. See you at Julia's.