Bam and I have had a good Saturday. He is a good craft project partner, although his paws don’t handle modg podge too well. haha.
I just got a new bookcase for my living room and I LOVE IT! But it is huge….and empty. Since I have recently become a little obsessed with vintage books, Sam and I took a trip to a few antique stores in search for some cool decorative books for the bookshelf. We definitely found some good ones….but once we put them on the shelf, we realized we needed A LOT more. Here is where I started thinking….DIY.

DIY:
I took a handful of my more “modern looking” books and gave them a new face. Or I guess you could say an “old face”. At one of the antique stores I found a newpaper dated back to the year I was born, 1984. It was yellowed and coffee stained and torn on the edges….so just perfect! I also found an old hymn book from 1964 who’s paper I thought would look great paired with the newspaper. I had some leftover burlap and ivory linen fabrics laying around the house, so with a few of the books I added labels with the fabrics. All the supplies needed were mod podge, a bit of tacky glue, and a sponge stick. Nothing fancy, but it gave my bookshelf a bit more of the vintage “used” look I was hoping for!


Looks lovely Kelli, great idea!!
Looks great, Kelli!
And I recognize that mercury glass from the wedding. Awwww…..
I love this. I’m a book hoarder. =)
i love this! we have a section in our office that i covered with brown paper bags and we have my grandparents old books mixed in.
love the newspaper!
oh and were you at coachella? i swear you walked right in front of us sat or sunday morning when we were on our way to get iced coffee.
Brandi
ohh I only WISH i was at coachella!! how was it?
your cat is so cute! i used to have a cat that looked similar to that.
& that’s a really awesome idea for the books.
oh I love this idea! so creative
i see some molly & donovan pieces up there…
love it.
well yes….they inspired me! :)