Inspiration Sunday: Books, books, books

My life is filled with books. They are my passion. I studied English at university and have loved to write and read (in that order) for as long as I can remember. My mother (and me) loves to tell people that I wrote before I could read; I used to copy my story books letter by letter and have her read back what I had wrote!

I am thinking a lot about decorating with books because I would love to have them in every aspect of my life if I could! So, this week's inspirational subject (and probably several more weeks in the future) is books.

We'll start with something simple. I found these Penguin postcards on Amazon and I have been wanting to buy them and frame a bunch of them, creating a wall of book covers...



Bookshelves! What a great invention. A single piece of furniture to keep some of the most cherished things in the household. I saw the bookshelf on the left on Pinterest (from Crush Cul de Sac) and loved it... organizing your books (and nick-knacks) by color makes your bookshelf more a piece of art then a shelf! Love! The bookshelf on the right I love because it creates the illusion of floating books! So simple and so effective. How wonderful! This is from Polish the Stars.


This idea is just so cool. Paint some old stairs to look like stacked books. If I ever have a large study with stairs, or just have some small concrete stairs, I want to do this on a smaller scale (because this looks a little too large).


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Sunday is...Inspiration Day! Creativity Journal

I recently bought the book 365: A Daily Creativity Journal. It has been such an inspiration for starting new projects. I don't have nearly enough time to do a project everyday between a baby, a blog, and the mess that both create, so I am using this book as general inspiration for my upcoming crafts. I have already found (and modified) several of these ideas that I intend to use in the very near future.  I think this is just a super book, and if I could I would do one

of these everyday. What a great way to push your creativity. Also, a great way to MAKE yourself be creative, even if you are not a "creative person."

Here are some examples of the daily creative challenges:

24: Work only with green-colored materials today. Try working on a green surface for a real challenge.

107: Make something out of a ball or make a new ball out of something else and then play with it.

175: Miniaturize. Create a tiny version of something would normally be much bigger.

 Fun, huh? Go to the Let's Create Amazon store and pick up a copy!