This Neat and Handy Book

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 516, 20 November 1928, Page 4

This Neat and Handy Book

Make It Yourself (Written for THE SUN by

Jenny Hirsch

for Scraps is Sasily f/VCade

RECESS I T * often does not let us work for pleasure; it only too often makes us think of the gain. However, each of us has 'some hobby, and we can here indulge ourselves in the thing we love. Probably the commonest Is the scrapbook, in which we carefully save clippings o f what interests us. Perhaps we assort them, and have a book for each subject Wouldn’t it help if each book were a different color, and loose-leaf, too, so that pages co de! always be added? J'ATERIALS needed: Enough heavy cardboard to cut two eaual-sized oblongs of whatever size you wish, some heavy plain paper, ribbon or silk cord, colored enamel paint, silver or giltgummed stars or silver or gilt paint, a stiff brush (a toothbrush does very w r ell). £JUT two pieces of cardboard the desired length. One-half inch down from a short edge make tw r o holes, each li inch from the long edge. Give each piece of cardboard two coat* of paint, giving the second when the first is ary When the second is dry paste on the stars, scattering

them over the cover. Should you have no stars, spatter the gilt or silver paint or another color of enamel over each cover. r pO do this dip the s t i fi brush into the paint, and holding it over and close to the cover, draw it rapidly over a email stick, so that the paint ■quirts on to the surface. To spatter the surface you can wait till the second coat is dry, in which :ase the spattfering will stay ;he way it goes on. If ;he enamel is still wet, the spattering will run into it, and make i mottled effect that is attrac- i live. Cut pages of plain paper, making them 1 inch narrower and shorter than the covers. yytHEN the covers are dry lay one on top of the paper, and mark where the holes are to come. You cen punch the holes into » number of pages at one time. Cut one page half again as long as the others. Fold up the additional length on to the page, and glue down the overlapping edges; put holes into this, too. P'ice the pages between the covers, sad insert the cord, which is in two pieces, through the holes, and the it.