A while back I shared some dollhouse furniture photos where I used a Gulliver’s Travels book as the background.

I’ve always loved the look of that book’s pages with the title in that large font at the top.  And obviously it’s the perfect choice for the background in pictures of miniatures.

The cover of the book itself is quite beat up and not good for much in the way of either display or to use for staging photos.

Markings inside indicate that this book once belonged to Concordia College …

and also to Harding High School.

It’s actually quite difficult to find pages in the book that don’t have sections underlined or notes in the margins.

In other words, this book was definitely very well used.  I’m pretty sure it has little monetary value, so I don’t feel bad about dismantling it.

One of my readers (hello Monica!) made the suggestion that I use some of those book pages as wallpaper in the dollhouse, but I have to say that I was already thinking along those lines myself.  I just wasn’t sure exactly which room to use them in.

But ultimately I chose the 2nd floor hallway.

I will admit that my application of the somewhat fragile book pages to the walls leaves a little bit to be desired in neatness, but I think it makes up for it in charm.

I cut the pages to fit as well as I could and then applied them using Mod Podge as ‘wallpaper paste’.  I did not add more Mod Podge over the top of the paper like you would if you were decoupaging.  I just used it on the back.

I’ve added a small rug from The Modern Dollhouse to the hallway …

As well as a chair that I painted up.

This is painted in a base coat of Dixie Belle’s Coffee Bean, followed by a dry brushed coat of their Burlap.  I also painted the seat cushion with a wash of Burlap (about 50/50 paint and water).  Then I added a re.design with prima knob transfer of a horse to the seat back.

And that brings me to my tiny books.

I happened across a downloadable file for creating some aged looking books (on Etsy, here), so I decided to try making some.

Once the file was purchased and printed out, I cut out all of the various bits.

To turn these into books I simply cut some heavy cardstock to size, then glued together stacks of the cardstock that would be thick enough to fill the book covers.

Then, I just glued the covers over the stack of cardstock.

That works great for books that you plan to just stack up, or put in a bookcase with the spines showing.

But I also wanted to create some books that would lie open somewhere.

For those, rather than gluing all of the layers of cardstock together, I glued some of the printed inner pages to the inside so the book could be left open.

Initially I thought I would called these finished at this point, but then I decided to add some of Dixie Belle’s Gold Gilding Wax to the edges of the ‘pages’.

To be honest, that’s probably a detail too small to be noticed by most.  But it only took a minute to do, and I already had the Gold wax out for something else that day, so why not?

I have a wall of bookcases to fill in the tower room of my dollhouse, so I think there will be quite a bit more bookmaking in my future.

In the meantime, what do you think of my book page wallpaper and my lilliputian books?  Leave a comment and let me know.