{"id":7716,"date":"2012-05-02T06:00:26","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T10:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=7716"},"modified":"2012-05-02T06:00:26","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T10:00:26","slug":"you-know-youre-going-to-want-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=7716","title":{"rendered":"You Know You’re Going to Want One…."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I am not a purse girl, particularly. I like a practical (okay, and nice-looking) tote that fits at least one book, if not more. However, I am willing to make an exception, especially when the purse IS A BOOK itself. Woot! The other night, I was chatting with a friend who isn’t in the book world, but is an avid reader. She sent me a text: “Just got this!” with a link to an Etsy.com photo: it was Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter<\/em>, in purse form. I may have started salivating just a little. And then I started checking out the vendor’s other book purses: Pride & Prejudice<\/em>, Little Women<\/em>, Crime and Punishment<\/em> (don’t take that one through airport security), The Secret Garden<\/em>, Alice in Wonderland<\/em>, Grimm’s Fairy Tales<\/em>, a pretty spectacular Wicked<\/em> with dangling beads…. She’s got Harry Potter<\/em> and The Hunger Games<\/em>, too. Let’s just say I was in bibliophile heaven, and that I fell in love with a certain To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em> handbag with a wooden handle.
\n\"\"<\/a>I was curious about how these purses are made. The vendor, NovelCreations<\/a>, has this blurb onsite:<\/p>\n

UPCYCYLED BOOK PURSES !<\/em><\/p>\n

My search starts with \u267b gently used \u267b books. They have to be unique, eye catching, or “make a statement” type books with their covers. My treasures come from garage sales, flea markets, estate sales, and the used bookstore where I work. In some cases, I will purchase a new book if there is a special request that I just can not locate used. Searching for that perfect book is half the fun. The rest is matching the fabric, handles and the button enclosure.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The inside pages of the book are \u267b recycled\/upcycled \u267b into other projects that I am working on currently. If you want the inside pages from your purchase, just let me know and I will ship with your purchase at no extra charge.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>So, pretty, literary, and ‘green’! What’s not to love?!
\nI felt it was only fair to send the vendor a note saying I would be blogging about her creations for PW<\/em>. Frankly, I think she might get ready for a possible uptick in sales.
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I am not a purse girl, particularly. However, I am willing to make an exception, especially when the purse is handcrafted out of real books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}