So I've been cleaning out my public school classroom and packing up all the books and resources that I have collected over the years when I came across a professional development book that I have long despised. Well, as I was thinking about the waste of paper and saving trees, I pondered about what I could do with this rather thick book that I was never going to read again. I didn't want to throw it away (being a composter and semi-environmentalist, I had a hard time with that idea), and I couldn't GIVE it away (most of my almost former colleagues agree with me about the uselessness of this particular text). An idea came to me when I was reviewing some of my pins from Pinterest (I mean, who doesn't love Pinterest), and, BAM!, an instant lightbulb about how I can creatively turn this rather tedious book that will never be read again into something inspiring and useful and beautiful! Hence, I have begun to tear out pages upon pages and doing something that I never thought I would do with a literary object. I am turning it into art. Maybe I can frame some of them and put them up for sale...who knows! But I am discovering that I can take a text that is tiresome and irrelevant and make it awesome.