Weekend DIY!
Thursday, June 10, 2010 at 7:57PM 
Here's a quick DIY idea that you can use for either nesting your cute house, or use as centerpieces at your reception! Either way, these bookpage jars look so charming with a candle in them at night. They're easy to make, and I can almost guarantee you already have everything to make them.
Need:
- old bookpages, drawings, maps, woodgrain contact paper, anything paper!
- mod-podge & a brush
- jars (make sure you can fit a candle inside them first) or hurricane glass
Step 1 - Rinse out your jars and remove labels. A good way to get labels off is to first fill the jars with hot water, let them soak a few minutes, and while the hot water is in the jar, just peel the label off. Brilliant. (Thanks, mom)
Step 2 - Pick out your pages and glue them with mod-podge onto the jars.
Step 3 - Let your jars dry on wax paper for a few hours.
Step 4 - Do extra decorating if you like - tie ribbon or string around for a little more color!
Step 5 - Put candles in and you're done. Put them around your house, or set them aside in a box for your reception!
Anyone else have any other DIY centerpiece ideas? Share here!
Reader Comments (19)
I think this is a beautiful idea! I once did this to a lamp shade but I used the wrong kind of glue. Oh well, thanks for posting and for the great idea!
WOW...this is great!! So lovely!
This is such an excellent idea! I am a big fan of old book pages and because I use them a lot in my creations I have lots of pieces of left over pages to utilise, definitely giving this one a go :) x
How have I not thought of this!? Beautiful!
Thanks everyone! My favorite pages to use are pages from old Readers Digest books from the 50's and 60's, because they have so many varied and quirky illustrations in them. :)
These are so pretty! I would love them at my next party.
I recently made a moss and rosette centerpiece. Just filled a shallow glass owl about half way with dirt, then added moss and made a rosette out of burlap. A nice button added some bling to the rosette :)
Love this idea. I did something similar last Thanksgiving. I printed photos of each of my children and grandchildren on transparency paper and stuck them to a giant jar/vase with 2 sided Scotch tap. I put a candle in it and everyone was illuminated. Then I put the whole thing on a lazy susan so that people at the table could turn it to find themselves and others. It was quite the conversation piece. I would do it this year but my cats broke the giant vase, so now I'll do your idea instead!
I think this would be super cute with lace too!
Found this on Pinterest! Love it. My bff and I love books so much, and we've bonded over many. I'm going to make this for her birthday. It's so brilliant and beautiful.
Thanks a bunch!
Megan
I am in love with this idea!
Jenny
www.simcoestreet.blogspot.com
I am going to use some old CHRISTmast carol pages and WOW!!! thank you
I love this....such a great project...I'm definitely going to do this! GREAT post!
I adore this idea as I and my grandaughter are avid readers!! I think it would be great to use pages from childrens books, use larger jars and they can be used for storing crayons/hair clips, etc. I think I will make these for EVERYONE!!
As a jar and book lover, this is right up my alley. Can't stand to waste either of them! Shared a pin/link here:
http://pinsandprincesses.blogspot.com/2012/04/trash-to-treasure-or-at-least-useful.html
cool idea !!! love it
anther way I can display my dried flower creation! I might try favorite photos (copied on printer) too! You got my CRAFT-A-HOLIC brain working overtime with this technique! LOL!
These would be great to use at book club!
These jars are so cute! Thank you so much for this great idea!