And that title would, of course, be sung to the tune of "Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper too? Be a Pepper. Drink Dr. Pepper". I do not wish to be the only person to have that song stuck in my head!
Now that the holiday season of 2014 is one for the books, it's on to the next holiday. Yes, technically it's Martin Luther King Day (sidenote: I saw Selma today. Very very good movie), but I'm moving on to that great holiday perpetuated by Hallmark and 1800flowers: Valentine's Day.
No, I'm not making valentines for my valentine. I'm making them for complete strangers because that's just more fun!
For an upcoming ATC swap on Swap-bot, the challenge/theme is to create a Valentine's ATC using a page from a book. I'm choosing to make origami hearts for these. I have a couple of other ideas up my sleeve, but figuring out how to make these hearts was simply enough for today!
Cute, huh?
I did think about Kelly's comments over at Whimsy by Kelly about using your good stuff. This isn't my good stuff, but the pages came from a very cool book I purchased this past week at the thrift store. Published in 1941, it's Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett.
I often buy books with every intention of using it for something like this and never do, feeling that the book and the words are too dear. I took a deep breath today and pulled out two pages from the hearty tome. Okay - I will admit that I made sure they weren't Shakespeare or Dickens or Dickenson or Bronte or.... In the end I shut my eyes and tore. Gently. With a straightedge.
