- December 21, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
A local bookstore is turning old books that can’t be sold to the public into unique gifts you won’t find anywhere else.
The store is selling handmade pendants, figures and ornaments in their bookstore on 118 Church Street. Each item is unique and made through the store.
Joshua Rigsby, owner of Pretty Good Books, said the ornaments are from books the store can’t sell.
“We make jewelry. We make gifts and things like that out of books that we can’t sell.” Rigsby said. “If we get a book where the cover is missing or it’s water damaged or anything like that, we turn those into little arts and crafts.”
Rigsby thanked his wife for her ingenuity with the crafts and for making the bookstore what it has become since moving into the downtown area earlier this year.
“She’s really creative. She’s really crafty,” Rigsby said. “The door over there that’s got all the library cards on it? [It was] 100% her idea….
