Secret Book Box

I am jobless at the moment and have been since early June. My days have been filled with mindless, inexhaustible boredom with occasional brief spurts of mild excitement. So I decided to embark on a project. This seemed to be perfect as I have plenty of small tchotchkes that need to be kept secret.
Tchotchke is a yiddish word meaning trinket. You can probably now gauge how bored I've been, started using a dictionary...

http://how2dostuff.blogspot.com/2006/02/how-to-make-secret-hollow-book.html





I chose an old beaten up Harry Potter book to be my hollow box - nothing could be more inconspicuous in my bookshelf. Making it was pretty simples.








You save a couple of pages in the front to make it all look neater at the end. Then you just cover the pages liberally with watered down PVA and leave to dry under some heavy other books.










Once it's dried cut out a space in the book - very, very, VERY time consuming.

VERY.









Then cover the inner walls liberally with PVA and bob's your uncle, fanny's your aunt, you have an incredible secret box thing.

An example of some things you can keep in your secret book box. My things are a little more secret.

Looking very inconspicuous amongst it's companions.