![]() Next, mark off the correct angle of the frame onto the toy and trim them to match. Did I mention that you should be careful? To get started, carefully CAREFULLY cut the toy in half with a box cutter. I had to settle for using this smaller-than-ideal brontosaurus and a hippo toy I already had ( minus all his bling). While the dollar store does still carry the clear acrylic frames, their selection of plastic animal toys was disappointing. You can’t buy them at the dollar store, but you sometimes will find them at thrift shops. If the angles are concerning to you, you can sub out cheap metal bookends for the acrylic frames. I decided to just be satisfied with bookends that weren’t entirely square. There are lots of angles going on here, but none of them are 90 degrees. (Ahh, the internet.) One commenter suggested that if I softened the acrylic frames in boiling water, I would be able to reform them into a 90 degree angle, so the bookends would sit flush against the books. When I originally posted this tutorial, I received quite a bit of feedback on how I could have done it better. ![]() The same bookends that were getting pinned on Pinterest and featured on Apartment Therapy were at the bottom of our trash bin with the coffee grounds and dirty diapers.īut now I have a chance to redeem myself by making new sets of the dollar store toy bookends using fantastic Plutonium Paint™. Soon after finishing the project, the bookends got knocked off the shelf and broke. As much as I loved the project, the animal head bookends weren’t holding up books on our bookshelves. ![]() It’s shameful.Įven though I didn’t win the competition, my bookends tutorial post was hugely popular and I got my first taste of “going viral.” I did kind of feel like I was living a lie though. Pay no attention to the photo quality, photo editing, or watermark on this photo.
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