They have turned Roy Sidebotham's 1970 Introduction to the Theory and Context of Accounting into an interesting book.
Not that it is now easily readable, having been folded into a table-top ornament for this weekend's Aspiring Conversations Festival of Ideas in Wanaka.
The two women have been working together on interior design and events for years, but only recently set themselves up as Barefoot Styling, Wanaka.
Ms Mackay says they were given a brief to produce ''something quirky rather than intellectual'' for the festival space where guest speakers are offering their books for sale.
And Ms Shore says she, her children and her friends at dance class spent hours folding book pages into interesting shapes.
It was mostly ''done by night'' in front of the television and was ''quite therapeutic'', she said.
The result is that about 50 books, including Eric Leyland's 1946 The Scorpion Strikes and various editions of Reader's Digest's Condensed Books, have been given a new lease of life.
They books were donated by the Wanaka Rotary Club which did not think they were likely to sell at the club's annual book sale last weekend.
