Une petite cage !

J'ouvre une nouvelle rubrique :: Home Déco.. Comme cela au hasard de mes tournées sur le net, je pourrais vous mettre ce que je découvre !

voici donc une petite cage à oiseau faite avec un livre

vous trouverez des instructions ici :

http://www.country-business.com/growyourbiz/display_design/gallerydetail.aspx?id=11222

mais beaucoup plus détaillées ici :

http://redhenhome.blogspot.com/2011/07/book-birdhouses.html

instructions were forthcoming! So here they are.

First you need an old book, minus the cover. Around 200 pages will give a very nice, fat, birdhouse. If your book is longer than that, you might end up using some of the end pages for another project.

Fold the first page in half toward the spine.

Then fold the top corner down to meet the spine, making a triangle. Flip that page over; you’re done with it now.

On the second page, fold the bottom corner in to meet the spine, making a triangle.

Then fold the top corner in to meet the spine.

Alternate pages one and two, and you’ll be making a book birdhouse like the middle-sized one in the picture above (the bottom edge of the roof is slanted, rather than horizontal).

The other two birdhouses are slightly different. The first page is the same, but on the second page, fold the top corner in to meet the spine first.

Then fold the bottom corner in to meet the spine.

Next, carefully tear the page away from the binding from the bottom half-way up. Fold it up to make a triangle.

This is what method number two looks like when you’re about half-way done.

When you’ve finished folding all of your pages, glue the first and the last pages together, and you’ve got a birdhouse!

I did have a problem with some of the pages wanting to come completely free of the binding. I generously glued them back in place.

My three birdhouses have taken up residence on my French chocolate coffee table. As you can see, I used a little brown craft paint to paint pseudo-openings on them. So those paper birds have a way in, you know!

These are probably going with me to Bella’s Vintage Market next Saturday. I’d like to try tying some twine around the spine and suspending them from my tent! Hope it works!

ça vous tente ?

Comments

[pepsine]

Très joli... chez les autres ! Soit je scrappe, soit je fais les poussières ! Je préfère scrapper ! ;)

[poil carotte]

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