DIY: Matchbooks to Notebooks
FEBRUARY 19TH, 2009
DIY: Matchbooks to Notebooks
How-to create mini notebooks from matchbooks.
Inspired by our favourite crafty couple and keepers of The Curiosity Shoppe, we took our old matchbooks collecting dust at the bottom of our drawers and turned them into mini books for making notes in.
1. Gently pull out the staple from the matchbook and remove the old insert that held the matches in place.
2. Measure the interior of the matchbook and uniformly cut small pieces of paper (about 12-15) to fit inside.
3. Measure where the bottom flap that folds up will lay against your pieces of paper and run a few at a time through an unthreaded sewing machine to create perforations (enabling you to tear out the pages).
4. Tuck your tiny stack of paper underneath the flap of your matchbook and staple them in.
Now your matchbook is a match book—use it to get numbers from those you deem a perfect match.