crooked house: Book Birdhouses

Take a Look:

Lizzie Skurnick's Buck Up: Life Lessons from Young Heroines.
Michael Chabon's Manhood for Amateurs: The Wilderness of Childhood. Via Gwenda.
Intel has decided to sponsor Mighty Girl Maggie Mason's list of 100 Things to Do Before She Dies -- so over the next three months she's off to Puerto Rico to swim with bioluminescent plankton and learning to tap dance and fun things like that. Now that's what you get for having a good attitude.
Ooh, there's a new Lorrie Moore story at The New Yorker. It's called "Childcare" and, due to the overwhelming demands of my own childcare tasks, I haven't read it yet. Must print it out and read it soonest. Via Maud.
In the "Wish I'd Thought of It" category: Let's Panic About Babies.
Pasha Malla has won the $20,000 Trillium Prize for his stellar book The Withdrawal Method. Via Maud. I interviewed him over there.
Jennifer Niesslein muses on the emotional difficulties people have when it comes to certain foods. Maybe the lactose intolerant simply need to open their minds.
Maud reviews the new biography of Jean Rhys, The Blue Hour. I got three quarters of the way through Rhys's collected works a month or two ago and then had to stop because the novels, based on her life, were so depressing. Sounds like her life was even more depressing than you'd think.
Maud reviews Sarah Waters' The Little Stranger for NPR.
Pretty pretty security envelope patterns. Particularly nice if you love blue.
This is kind of fun: writers talk about their guilty pleasures -- books they love but would be embarrassed to be seen reading. I've read and enjoyed both the Twilight series and the Stephanie Plum stuff. I find I usually turn to this kind of junk food reading when I'm too sick to focus much or think.
Lisa says that, in book cover design, "the sky is the new shoes."
This woman thinks the way I do: many, many children's books are deeply disturbing if you think too much about them.
The Internet in 1969.
Over at Pickle Me This, Kerry, who is going to have a baby tomorrow, has compiled a list of anxiety-provoking books to read while you are pregnant.
Scholar denies oral roots of fairy tales. (Seeing the words "oral" and "fairy" in that headline immediately made me think of the tooth fairy.)

April 29, 2008

Book Birdhouses

Birdhouses made from second-hand books. The one on the left is made out of To Kill A Mockingbird. You can zoom in on the photo if you go to Uncommon Goods where they are sold. But I think they wouldn't be that hard to make yourself. Thanks for the link, Mary!

Posted by Stephany Aulenback on April 29, 2008 at 10:41 AM in Arts and Crafts, Books | Permalink

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How do you find these gems? Oh I MUST have these...

Posted by: Patricia | April 29, 2008 at 11:48 AM

$120!

Posted by: M | April 29, 2008 at 01:04 PM

OK. Mill Store:

0-B23
BIRD HOUSE A - ROOF
Simple design, made of pine this birdhouse awaits your finishing touches.
Dimensions: 7"W x 9"H x 7.5"D
Price: $4.99

I'm off to open an Etsy store.

Posted by: M | April 29, 2008 at 01:31 PM

Yeah, M, I think you could easily take an unfinished birdhouse and turn it into one of those -- send me a pic if you do? I'm just wondering how best to waterproof it. With a lot of shellac? Hmm.

I didn't realize they were so expensive. Patricia, we'll have to make one for you!

Posted by: Steph | April 30, 2008 at 11:41 AM

Uh...yikes! I didn't notice the price, either. I'd love to make one, but I'm pretty sure it would NOT look like that photo...so..yes! Make one for me!

Posted by: Patricia | April 30, 2008 at 11:53 AM

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