when only the best will do

 

Are you one of those people that loves to sing along with radio ads?!

 

Didn't think so.

 

But for those who are, here's a CD full of them.

Golden tunes like Happy Little Vegemite, Aeroplane Jelly, Benson and Hedges, Toyota - Oh What A Feeling, Nigger Boy Soap Pads (seriously), and Hard Yakka.

Surely you'll want this on repeat on a long car trip.

 

trash and treasure

Ever come across a book that was so bad, you weren't sure if it was meant to be a joke? Pommie Sarah did, and thought it needed sharing on this blog.

 

She was so right.

 

 

Here it is! UPCYCLING! Where you can 'create beautiful things with stuff you already have'!

 

For example. Collected many of those little hotel soaps...?

 

 

Make a necklace!

 

Bored of your conventional old geographical globe..?



Add some 3D realism with plastic animals!

 

Too many old pots and pans...?

 



Your visitors will love this right in the middle of your loungeroom.

 

Safety pins?

 

 

Like 'shiney embroidery'!

 

And I cant think of anything I'd rather do with old cushion stuffing,

 

 

...than suspend it above my head.

 

Also apparently, old art can be joujzed up with just a bit of glitter glue!

 

 

Holy Martha Stewart! If only museums knew art restoration was SO EASY!

 

But my favourite is the amount of time dedicated to those un-sung decorating gems - PLASTIC $2 HOBO BAGS.

 

 

 



sweet dreams. darling.

Hubby found this on Amazon.com (heaven knows what he was looking for!)

 

But with chapters like;

 

"Your upstairs neighbour kills people"

 

"I said not to touch that"

 

and

 

"No, it isn't just the wind",

 

it's sure to be a big hit with the littlies.

i knew it.

I knew it. All those Elvis conspiracy theorists/enthusiasts/sightings couldn't be wrong...

This 'Where's Wally?'-esque children's book immediately appealed to my warped sense of humour.

And I laughed harder when I saw this:

don't you hate that?

 

So relatable. Or is that just me...

i dont know what it says.

...and I'm not sure it matters. Can you judge a book by its cover? Not sure, but this one's got a pretty good disguise...

judgement day

Look I have to draw your attention to www.judgeabook.blogspot.com.au for their outstanding contribution to the discovery of WTF books.

I mean with such gems as...

...you can see my argument here, right? I mean this is A1-quality weirdness. Bravo.

i feel smarter already

Well, you are what you eat, so they say... :S

come up here and take a bow

awfullibrarybooks.net !!!

This is a truly worthy find! I mean, owl-headed naked women and breast balloons: What more could you ask for?

save my place

As a librarian, we see some really beautiful bookmarks. Occasionally they get left behind in library books, and there's always a designated box/container in every library around of lost and unclaimed bookmarks. Some are precious and detailed, some are hand made by children or friends, some are yellowing dog-eared pictures of relatives or far away places...

However, sometimes, mid-book, a book mark is just not handy, so readers need to improvise. And here's the rub. Sometimes we find things in books that are just down right weird, gross and unsuitable bookmarks.

So I've compiled a list of clever improvised bookmarks I've seen, and WTF bookmarks, that I definitely never want to see again.

CLEVER:
reciept
fourleaf clover (pressed & dry)
paper clip
tea bag (unused! Of course!)
elastic band
train ticket
hair pin
photo
postcard
gumleaf

EEEEW WTF?! NO!
sultana
slice bacon
toilet paper (where were you reading???)
wet wipe
hair (human. I think.)
orange rind
condom (unopened, but still! :S )
needle (Ow! oh, where did that go...?)
band aid (nope, not in packet.)

(Yep - that's a real book.)

there will be blood!

The grudge match: It'll be a fight to the bitter end!!!

it's world breast feeding week!

There is SO much good information about breast feeding at your local library and ours always provides a safe, quiet place for Mums to nurse.

Check out your local library or BookTARDIS - there are so many good parenting and breast feeding books out there!

This probably is not one of them though.

What?! That's not...! I mean surely that can't be a real...? I don't even...

attention dieters!

Need to kill those junk food cravings?! I have the solution! Just knit woolley (inedible, fat free) versions of the forbidden foods & kill your cravings!

Or you could just knit them because... um.... well you might want to...er...

Hmm.

tmi

Just thought I'd share 2yo CupKatie's favourite library book of the moment.

Priceless.

more aussie than an outdated stereotype

I wish I'd known about this book on Australia Day! (And all those countless other days!) All that time I was sitting around thinking: "I wanna make a cake... I want it to be patriotic, but not obvious. I want it to say "Australia", but not in a modern, artistic, or indeed even obviously edible way...?" 

Behold!

Because I know y'all have always wanted to make an edible

...VICTA mower...

...Tuckerbox (Of course u cant eat the dog! Because that'd be weird.)...

...Akubra...

...Caravan! (I dont know how many times I've wanted to make a caravan cake...)...

...Meat pie with patriotic sauce! (Imagine! An edible meat pie!)...

...Billy (complete with gumleaf and soggy tea bag accessories)...

...Hills Hoist! (What? You can only eat the patch of lawn?! Disappointing!)...

...Weber-Que! (You call those sausages 'done'? That's not nearly enough charcoal for a true Aussie barbie! And where's the proverbial 'shrimp'?)...

But seriously, all joking aside, there are some cute Aussie animal cakes in this book - just look at this sweet little spearmint-leaf salt water croc!!! OMG he's ADORABLE!!! 

"C'mere! C'mere, you cute little...naaaw look at that: he's gnawing my leg off! Aww! Look he's doing a cheeky little death-roll and dragging me under the surface! Squee! Someone get the camera!!!"

unless u hav musophobia (fear of mice)

Found this children's book "Little Mouse's Big Book Of Fears" and thought it was worth a post. It's designed to be used as a scrapbook where kids can express their fears and explore them, on the premise that "A fear faced is a fear defeated".

ie Ailurophobia: Fear of cats.

But... um... some of these pages are quite... dark. And a bit disturbing. In fact it wouldnt surprise me if ur kids developed a few more phobias after reading this one! O.O

Hydrophobia: Fear of water.

Aichmophobia: Fear of knives

Clinophobia: Fear of going to bed.

wild and wilder

I've posted on the art of "Teapot Adornment" before, but this book brings it to a whole new level!

I mean, some of these are no longer recognisable as teapots!

However: As "Teapot camoflage" I reckon they'd be great! You could hide your teapot in:

A rockpool!

A bowl of coloured popcorn!

A medieval reenactment of a royal court!

But just incase those designs aren't wild enough for ya, there's always: