Christmas Rose in an upcycling planter with rolled up book pages
Christmas Rose in an upcycling planter with rolled up book pages

Carefully selected

This DIY idea with Winter Ballet Christmas Roses is a carefully selected gift for all bookworms and reading enthusiasts. Choosing a present for an avid reader seems like an easy enough task, but it often turns out to be especially hard to find the right book. Everybody has their own reading preferences and you don’t want to give a book they’ve already read or won’t appreciate. In this case, a book voucher is often your safest bet. Combine the voucher with a unique flower gift for a good read and a pleasant surprise. If you yourself are a book aficionado, you can always just treat yourself!

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    Book pages

    rolled book pages in various lengths

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    Glass planter & wooden disk

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    Winter Ballet Christmas Rose

    e.g. Liara

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    Moss

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    Hot glue

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    Decoration

    Conifer twigs, twigs with berries

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    Felt ribbon

    matching the flower colour

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  • Step 1 Upcycling planter with rolled up book pages

    Roll up the book pages into tubes and hot-glue the tubes to the planter one next to the other without leaving any gaps. No worries, we didn’t rip up the latest edition of someone’s favourite book for this project. The literary content is really not important in this case. Any household will likely have an expendable page-turner that can be given a second chance to shine this way.

    Step 2 Glue the felt ribbon to the planter.

    When the rolled book pages are attached all around the planter, wrap one turn of felt ribbon around at half height for a more sophisticated look and greater stability and fix with glue.

    Step 3 Place the book-page planter onto a wooden disk and attach the twigs and cones.

    Place the book-page planter onto a wooden disk and attach the twigs and cones.

    Finished! Place the Christmas Rose with its pot into the planter

    Lastly, place the Christmas Rose with its pot into the planter and there's your special flower gift for book lovers!

     

    More do-it-yourself instructions here >