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Alchemy Arts - cover

Skirtains, Anyone?

July 23, 2015 Holly Craptastic Crafts and Hobbies 50 comments

Alchemy Arts: Recycling is Chic MacKay and Jennings 2010 This book was recently weeded from a medium sized public library for a complete lack of check-outs. It’s not awful, exactly, but definitely a little weird. The examples are described in general

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Don't Throw it Away cover

Please Throw it Away!

November 13, 2013 Mary Kelly Craptastic Crafts and Hobbies 21 comments

Don’t Throw It Away! Abell 1973 Another gorgeous craft book from an unnamed public library’s craft section. (No, as of this writing it was NOT weeded.) I had no trouble guessing that this was direct from the 1970s.  The harvest

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Art from Scrap cover

Crap from Scrap

January 29, 2013 Holly Craptastic Crafts and Hobbies, For the Kids 8 comments

Art from Scrap Reed and Orze 1974 Submitter: A book about arts and crafts using recycled materials is always in demand. This one is clearly geared toward art teachers, and many of the pieces were made by students. A few items

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