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Bear in mind you only have about 6 to 10 minutes to work with your mixture.Ĥ) Dip your horse pieces into the Plaster of Paris, making sure to coat the entire surface. I used chalk-based paint and did have to add a tiny bit more water to the mixture after adding the paint because the paint thickened it up a bit too much. Then add a little bit (as is less than a tablespoon) of paint if you want to tint your Plaster of Paris. Ours are roughly 5 1/2 by 6 inches, but yours could be different based on whatever scrap wood you have on hand.Ģ) Cut your plastic horse/animal in half.ģ) Mix your DAP Plaster of Paris according to the instructions on the package. A compound miter saw or hand saw (truly, all of these cuts could be made without any power tools)ġ) Cut your wood down to make 4 equal size pieces.1 plastic horse or other animal (I bought my at The Dollar Tree for $1).Scrap wood (you'll need 4 pieces that are roughly 5 1/2 x 6 inches–we used some scrap red oak plywood we had on hand, but ANY wood will do).

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I couldn't find that combination at all (let alone in my budget), so I came up with my very own DIY bookends and love how they turned out! Read on to learn how to make your very own DIY bookends for less than $5. You see, I really wanted some combination of ceramic and wood. What in the world?! To make matters worse, this is not the sort of aesthetic I was going for at all. For example, this set is from Wal-Mart and check out that price. I wanted a modern look that involved horses and was seriously shocked by some of the prices. As always, all opinions are 100% my own based on personal experience. Thank you to DAP Products for sponsoring this post. I pretty quickly decided that I was going to have to make DIY bookends :) And I was thrilled to partner with DAP for this project because DAP had every single thing I needed to make my vision come to live. You probably would be good at keeping it that way.Have you ever realized how expensive bookends can be?! I had NO IDEA until I started browsing for some recently. But don't do what I would: put other stuff (receipts, business cards, reminders, unopened mail) between the boxes or stuck to them. Between the boxes, you could put small colorful paper tablets (Post-its) or notebooks, note cards, stamps, even a cell phone. Or you could put a little jar (baby food?) inside one of the boxes, with water and a real cut flower or growing plant in it. A pen with something pretty or goofy on the end might look good. Your bookend/pencil cups seem really useful. Then you'd adjust the spacing of the other two boxes. That probably wouldn't disturb the pencils, etc. You could glue the side and bottom of the box to the vertical and horizontal of the L, or perhaps drill a hole and use a flat head screw going from the book side of the L into the box, with a nut on the inside of the box. However, if the biggest box on each side is moved closer to the books, so it abuts both the vertical and horizontal pieces of the L, it would buttress that vertical piece against the weight of tilting books. The pressure from the books could push each vertical piece of the L toward the little boxes, snapping the joint. But here's a suggestion: The joint of the 'L' pieces is glued together at the edge, and looks like it might not stand up to the weight of tilting books (my books always tilt).

I really like your sense of design, and haven't seen anything like this before. If you like this, please vote for this instructable in Book It! Contest.Thank you. Have you made any bookends like this? If you want any customization to be done in this bookends what changes will you make ? Share what you think about these bookends in the comments below. Hope this instructable inspires you to create your own bookends.

If you have the wood cutting tools at you home, why not try some other geometric shapes for holders like hexagon, triangle for holders instead squares.

Make sure you subtract the thickness of wood when you are cutting the pieces for sides if you are using a different thickness of wood.

You can get more creative by using some magnetic tape on the bookends if you want to display some photo magnets or any logos.

Alter the size or arrangement of the holders according to the things you want to hold in it.

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You can also use mod podge and scrapbook paper to decorate your bookends if you already have some pattern or theme going on in your room.

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