How to Make a Literary Clock

By Stacy in Art, Book & Literature on Dec 15, 2008 at 9:21 pm

A perfect last-minute gift, I think. Take someone’s favorite childhood book, convert to a clock, and voila! And thanks to this Instructable, you even have step-by-step instructions on how to do it. The creator has a cute blog with lots of other crafty ideas, too.


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  1. Jill Harness
    Dec 15th, 2008 at 9:49 pm

    This is such a cool gift idea. Thanks Stacy!

  2. Woogie
    Dec 16th, 2008 at 12:42 am

    The Giving Tree should have just killed that snot nosed kid at the start.

  3. theoneinpink
    Dec 16th, 2008 at 1:34 am

    well well well, if it isn’t my favorite childhood book! great idea.

  4. dd
    Dec 16th, 2008 at 1:53 am

    But you have to kill a book :(

  5. ted
    Dec 16th, 2008 at 7:26 am

    Thus, killing their childhood memories…

  6. Stacy
    Dec 16th, 2008 at 10:02 am

    I should have mentioned that she tries to use books that are already damaged – pages with crayon, missing pages, that sort of thing. And Woogie, I agree with you.

  7. garbonzo
    Dec 16th, 2008 at 12:23 pm

    How awesome is this!?!?! A perfect gift for a child!

  8. Scooter
    Dec 16th, 2008 at 1:55 pm

    I only agree with this if they used damaged books. Otherwise it’s a horrible thing to do to a book.

  9. Melissa H
    Dec 16th, 2008 at 2:48 pm

    Thanks for posting a link to my tutorial! Hope people enjoy; it is a great gift even though it’s hard to hurt a book!

  10. liphttam1
    Dec 16th, 2008 at 3:50 pm

    I do believe theres an eight in my head.

  11. sloane
    Dec 17th, 2008 at 3:48 pm

    This would be great with old worn out vintage looking books also!!


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