Styling a Bookself

I will admit right off that I ripped off the title for this post from http://www.designsponge.com/2013/09/styling-a-bookshelf-10-homes-that-get-it-right-5-tips-for-your-own.html. I do like this blog. However reading it daily is not a priority, so actually clicking and reading the entire post is rare. But as it is I love books and reading so I was totally hooked.

As I look at my bookshelves I wonder when I'll be able to have a nice organized space for all of my friends. My downstairs unit does look aesthetically pleasing and it is loaded up with the books I like to share and read often. My upstairs bookshelf is much bigger and thus has much more clutter. Textbooks and binders full of lecture notes live on the bottom two shelves. Yes my husband and I refer to them. Maybe not everyday but often enough. Novels, reference, and a nonfiction assortment fill the next two shelves. Some places are two deep when the books are small enough. Storage has overtaken the top shelf and the top of the whole fixture. The shelves are starting to bow. and the whole unit is held in a rectangular configuration via ducktape. Oh the trials of a bookworm. I don't like to place things in front of the books spines and the artsy stacks are nice until I pull a book off the bottom and the whole pile falls over. I often wonder how often do people read their books that stack them and have stuff in front of the spines so you can't read the title? Probably more than I give them credit for.

Sincerely,  The Chocolate Moose

This morning started off awesome. Waking up early and convincing my husband to do the same is always fun. We finished reading Matthew from the Bible and then I took off for a run. I love my pink running shoes. They are so light and airy and I even have pants and a jacket that coordinate.

I cleaned up my summer gardening projects from the front window ledge. They all started out so well. First they sprouted and grow tall and green. I think I bought some sort of giant marigold variety so they didn't work out very well in my cute little jars. They got to be about 6-7" tall and then died: and I might have over-watered one.

I also re-potted and dead-headed some mums. Hopefully they last through the winter months and will bloom again next fall. I was going to impress you here with some useful information about mums, but I have nothing

My other plants include a chive (which is not going to like winter because it is a sunlight hog) and a juniper tree.

I hope to bonsai the juniper at some point, but decided to let it get established in the pot before I started cutting and bending. Hope that goes well for me.