It’s the dead of winter here in the northern hemisphere, and between the pandemic and the polar vortex, we’re getting pretty tired of staring at the same four walls and eating incessantly. It’s the perfect recipe for trying something new and low-calorie, like baking a loaf of bread-shaped note paper from the stuff in the recycling bin.
[SusanLand] likes to make paper out of whatever discarded things she has on hand, including old jeans. When she tried making paper out of nothing but toilet paper tubes, it didn’t work so well, but it gave her an idea for cooking up some offbeat stationery. She beefed up the pulp with shredded office paper and corn starch, and dialed in the whole wheat hue with a pinch of yellow and orange paper. Once the pulp was ready, she poured it into bread-shaped molds made from a plastic milk jug.
This tidy introduction to making your own paper covers everything from pulping techniques to drying methods. Once the slices are dry, [SusanLand] embellishes them with a scoring tool, colored pencils, and a handful of seeds to complete the look. Check out that process in the videos after the break.
Don’t want to make paper out of your paper? Use it to weigh your car, or fold up a fleet of airplanes.
I guess this deserves a crumb or two of commendation, if this is your jam, for the rest of us it might be spreading it on a bit thick. But any way you slice it, it’s better than loafing around.
Some people here post with the yeast amount of effort, but you really rose to the occasion. Thanks for not loafing around.
Thanks, I kneaded to get a rise out of someone.
I raise a toast to all the punners!
Nobody likes half-baked comments.
Feeling a little crusty?
Yo, dawg! I heard you like paper.
…staring at the same four walls and eating incessantly…
It’s so true!
Long as one isn’t eating the walls.
But seriously wallpaper would be a good thing for color E-ink.
I think cost per square foot of doing your walls in LCD is only about a quarter of doing it in Italian artisanal tiles.
Forget those old Post-it Notes, folks! Get the new Toast-it Notes!! :-)
Those would probably sell LOL
How is this different from paper-mache?
Well recycling paper from junk mail, cloth waste, etc… is a good idea. Makes me wonder if I could recycle my old printer paper, newspaper and such and make new printer paper? Maybe use junk mail, flyers, etc. to make multicoloured wallpaper, might be fun to do with kids to paper their rooms.