Father's Day

Well, a few weeks ago I had the brilliant idea to actually start thinking about a Father’s Day present for my dad. We are on a tight budget these days, so no gift cards to Home Depot, no tickets to any local sporting events… I ended up seeing a few articles online about hollowing out books for various purposes.

Some were hollowed out for e-book readers (kinda ironic, no?)
Some were hollowed out for ipods
Others were just hollowed out for misc stuff.

I decided I would do the latter as a gift for Tom & have some fun making his Father’s Day gift.

Unfortunately, I didn’t take any pictures of it, so you’ll just have to take my word for it that it’s cool! Sweet! My Mom took a few pics for me, see below! I went to a local Half Price Books store and got the thickest hard-back book with an interesting title that I could find. It didn’t have the dust jacket, & was an unassuming blue bodied book with a black spine. It also had a more rugged feel to the outer cut of the pages which gave it a more “rustic” feel to it. Perfect!

I hollowed it out with a utility razor & glued the pages together from the inside area with a paintbrush & book binding glue.  I think it turned out really well! It looks like a normal book from the outside, but it’s got a large-ish cavity to hide things away in! (cutout approx: 4in. wide X 6 in. tall X 1.5in. deep).

The fun part of it was my parents didn’t come to church that morning… Our church always gives gifts to Moms on Mother’s Day & Dads on Father’s Day. Anyhow this Father’s Day they gave away steaks. Yup, steaks. Anyhow, a good sized Rib-eye fit perfectly in the book I hollowed out.

Needles to say, we had steaks for lunch that day. (They gave out one for each father).

I received an awesome painting that Taven crafted. Then Mommy helped him put his hand-print on there, and then Bradey’s foot print. It’s hanging in my office already. Lovin it.