{"id":6415,"date":"2010-05-21T07:20:49","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T12:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=6415"},"modified":"2010-05-21T07:20:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T12:20:49","slug":"book-report-trash-to-treasure-8-by-the-staff-of-leisure-arts-inc-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/21\/book-report-trash-to-treasure-8-by-the-staff-of-leisure-arts-inc-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Trash to Treasure 8<\/i> by the staff of Leisure Arts, Inc. (2003)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got this book fresh on the heels of reading <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/09\/book-report-the-joy-of-junk-by-cheryl-fall-2003\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Joy of Junk<\/a><\/em>.  This book pales in comparison.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, it&#8217;s some sort of annual compendium, as it bears the number 8, but I&#8217;m not sure what it&#8217;s collected from.  What it represents is a collection of projects that use things you might throw out to make kitschy little crafts.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, they could have called it <em>Trash to Painted Trash You Can Give For Gifts<\/em>.  Most of the projects end up with a final product that you look at and say, &#8220;Oh, that&#8217;s a clever use of a <trash>.&#8221;  That is, most of the things don&#8217;t transcend their origins.  If you make anything out of an old coffee can, for example, you end up with something that looks like a repurposed coffee can.  I prefer my projects to transcend the origin of the materials.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not my bag.  Maybe if you&#8217;re into the country style or whatever style relies on cutesy sayings and homespun appearance, you&#8217;ll get more than I got from the book.  Me, I got one project idea and the recognition that aluminum cans are a good source of serviceable metal to use in crafts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got this book fresh on the heels of reading The Joy of Junk. This book pales in comparison. Apparently, it&#8217;s some sort of annual compendium, as it bears the number 8, but I&#8217;m not sure what it&#8217;s collected from. What it represents is a collection of projects that use things you might throw out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6416,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6415\/revisions\/6416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}