Stuff You Love

Wise Craft: Turning Thrift Store Finds, Fabric Scraps, andNatural Objects into Stuff You Love by Blair Stocker.  The title says it all for this book that is chock full of ideas on how to take old things and turn them into something new for your home.   Old jeans can be made into woven placemats or striped shirts cut into strips to create a beautiful lightweight summer quilt.  Pine cones and seedpods can be used to create a “forest walk tabletop garden” and my favorite is all the things you can do with the pages of books or even with the books themselves.  Each craft project uses a few simple items to create seasonally themed designs.  Be sure to check out the winter “hottie rice pillow” (looks super soothing) and the Halloween themed “zombie barbies” (really creepy)!  SG