{"id":6516,"date":"2010-06-14T08:20:15","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T13:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=6516"},"modified":"2010-06-13T11:20:48","modified_gmt":"2010-06-13T16:20:48","slug":"book-report-trash-to-treasure-2-by-leisure-arts-inc-1998","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/14\/book-report-trash-to-treasure-2-by-leisure-arts-inc-1998\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Trash to Treasure 2<\/i> by Leisure Arts, Inc. (1998)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, okay, I said I didn&#8217;t like the first book of this series that I read (<a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/21\/book-report-trash-to-treasure-8-by-the-staff-of-leisure-arts-inc-2003\/\" target=\"_blank\">number 8<\/a> in the series), but here I am looking through another one.<\/p>\n<p>Well, they&#8217;re quick and probably not entirely a waste of time.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it&#8217;s heavy on the country kitsch that does not appeal to me (yet&#8211;give me a decade surrounded by fields and horses, and we might have a different aesthetic sense entirely&#8211;watch for the blog theme to be white and red checkerboard with stitches dividing the posts and sidebars).<\/p>\n<p>Instead of the reliance on the aluminum cans, this book features a large number of projects that use the bottom of plastic food trays.  I could see it.  Maybe my children and I will make suncatchers sometime from them.  Probably not.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, #8 recycles a project from this book: light bulb Christmas ornaments.  Talk about using old things in a new way!  Of course, if you&#8217;re going to do this, you probably want to do it while incandescent bulbs are legal.<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;asins=157486078X\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, okay, I said I didn&#8217;t like the first book of this series that I read (number 8 in the series), but here I am looking through another one. Well, they&#8217;re quick and probably not entirely a waste of time. Still, it&#8217;s heavy on the country kitsch that does not appeal to me (yet&#8211;give me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books","category-handicrafts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516","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=6516"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6518,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516\/revisions\/6518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}