Look what I made

I love books.

I love sleep.

Last week I accidentally bought a bed.

I'm not sure how it happened but I'm pretty sure it was the name of the bed that made the sale.

Library Bed.

Say what now?

Books in your bed?

Before I knew it, I was handing over my bank card.

Done deal.

It gets delivered this week and I can't wait.

So yesterday, try as I might,

I couldn't think of anything I wanted to sew.

With books on the brain I decided to make some bookends.

Now I use the term 'make' quite loosely here.

They were really already made.

I just had to glue the bits together and make them look pretty.

Candice and I can have very different tastes in regards to design sometimes

so I decided to make these bookends in a way to reflect

both of our styles I suppose.

I'm into pretty kitsch, vintage and cute styles

Candice is more into bright, modern and also cute styles.

We have the cute thing in common.

As we both have a big love for music, I used music notes as the background.

On my side of the bookends I went for a sort of wall paper pattern.

For Candice I chose robots.

For this project you will need:

• Kaiser Craft bookend pieces (I found mine at spotlight)
• Pretty paper or fabric (I chose paper as it's easier to cut and glue)
• Acrylic paint (whatever colour matches your paper)
• Craft glue

Fist step is to trace all your pieces onto the back of your chosen paper.

Once you have finished that, paint all the edges.

While the paint is drying, cut out everything you just traced.

Next step is obviously to glue the paper onto the wood

and then glue all the wood pieces together.

I chose buttons for the eyes as my button loving heart took over.

That's it.

 My side

Her side.

This is quite possibly the easiest thing I've ever 'made'.

It's probably a really good project for kids actually.

Plus it encourages reading.

Because books are fucking awesome, kids.