Storybook Charm

Since I started reading The Help last week, my mind has been in the 1960s. Vintage children’s books call to me, bringing mental images of little Mae Mobley toting them around her house.  A small collection of ratty, well-loved story books sat in my studio until this afternoon.  I found a tin box of clear glass stones at the Goodwill and decided to make magnets.  Glass magnets are a fun, popular craft I've seen often on Etsy.com created by gluing images to the back of clear stones and adding a magnet.  All the supplies were here but the magnets, so I made tiny pendants instead.

I found little illustrations in the books (manly birds and flowers) to glue to the stones with silver bails on the back. Scrap pages with old school images of characters like Snow White and Bambi were salvaged to make matching tags for each pendant.  They are so cute. I wonder if projects similar to this were popular in the 1960s.  I can imagine housewives like Elizabeth Leefolt sitting at her dining table cutting up magazines to make magnets as gifts for friends.