First let me say that I love Pottery Barn - all the furniture, all the chi-chi decorating accents and all the lovely linens. Then came these little stacks of old books - aren't they sweet? Now to the crazy part - each stack of 4 books costs $30.00. What?? For a stack of books with the covers riped off and tied with a piece of twine?? So that means that the bowl of books above costs over $200.00, not counting the lovely wooden trough. Here's my version. I looked in our bookcases and found four books that would be headed to the donation pile. I looked for ones with deckle edges or colored pages to add interest. I used a box cutter to get the covers off without tearing the pages.
So here's to you Pottery Barn. I love that you have wonderfully creative designers and that occasionally I can make my own version of your (sometimes) wildly overpriced doo-dads.
Investigator of interesting information, explorer of paper, collage, and stamp art, collector of art supplies, dabbler in the garden and lover of the ocean.
"Dementia is similar to creativity, but without the expense of art supplies."
kindergarten
All dolled up for first day of kindergarten.
The Peace of Wild Things
When dispair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. ~~~ Wendell Berry
" I think we can't go 'round measuring our goodness by what we don't do, what we deny ourselves, what we resist, and who we exclude. I think we've got to measure goodness by what we embrace, what we create, and who we include". -- Chocolat
YOU CAN'T USE UP CREATIVITY. THE MORE YOU USE, THE MORE YOU HAVE". -- MAYA ANGELOU
"Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire".
~ Wendell Berry
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