Thing I Made Thursday! Atlantean Map Box!

[naamah_darling]

Yeeeah, so. I've decided to try this thing! I'm starting a new feature here called "Thing I Made Thursday

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[the_vulture]

It looks absolutely gorgeous!

[sargon999]

It was almost exactly a week.

[pans_writing]

It's beautiful, and I wish I had a clue how to do stuff like this. Out of interest, how difficult are the books you produce? I see them in a lot of your pictures, and I love them. Of course, there's always the chance that they're just nice old books that you own, but I have a feeling you did them yourself. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong :-)

[naamah_darling]

Actually, they're all ones I've bought from flea markets and secondhand stores. The two in this shoot were from a big indoor flea market, and the leather one is FULL of tintypes and old photographs. I got it for about $35. A STEAL. Person didn't really understand what they had.

I do occasionally take uninteresting or unimportant books (mostly old textbook reprints or offensive tracts) and re-title them, which is where the "Fine art of Poisoning" book came from that you will see from time to time.

[pans_writing]

Ah, that makes me feel much less inadequate now :-) Flea markets are brilliant for things like that, I don't go to anywhere near enough of them. Though if I buy any more books - even beautiful battered old ones - I think my girlfriend will string me up!

[naamah_darling]

Yeah, I have that problem, too. There's no such thing as "too mnay books" but "too many books for this house" is very real!.

[the_vulture]

I so wanna know how to do those transfers, too!

[rusty76]

That's a really beautiful and unique piece!