Fun Accessories

I was at a thrift store the other week and found these fun book ends for $3!

At the moment there is not room on my bookshelves for actual bookends - so they're more of decorative accessories - but eventually they will hold up books!

I went and did some googling to find other fun bookends. Here's what I came up with! (I couldn't find mine online anywhere.)

Quote Unquote Bookends - LOVE these. Rather more pricey than my $3 find though. . .

Fish Bowl Bookends - I mean, really, how cool are these? If I didn't think my psychotic cats would eat the fish I'd totally get these!

Book End Bookends - for Captain Obvious

Bean Bags as Bookends - seems like a fun idea!

License Plates Bookends - I certainly see license plate decor everywhere. Not my style but perhaps one of you would like it.

Old Records Bookends - reduce, reuse, recyle, and all that. This would be great if someone had a music/book room.

Bookshelf

I've been trying to get my guest room in a bit more order and part of that was re-organizing my bookshelf. I've always been a bit confused as to how to order my books. Genre by author? Completely by last name? Do books without authors go under the title? Do they get mixed into the authors or do they go in their own section? I finally found a solution! Sort them by color! I thought it was fool proof. Little did I expect to be sitting in the middle of a pile of books asking myself, "Is that a pale green or blue? Or....purple? hmm..."

Anyway. Here is what I came up with:

And then I realized I forgot about a number of books. So, it looks like this.

I totally used books as shelves up there at the top.

And here are a few close-up shots of some of the "colors." (If you're a "book person" I think you can click on these to make them bigger. You book people can tell me which books you love/hate, ask me questions about books, whatever. Have at it!)


Oranges and reds.

I like this shot. The aesthetics of the two colors next to each other appeals to me as does the small amount of diversity of the titles.

Seemed appropriate for the top of a color-coded bookshelf. And I love the little vase.

The yellow section is so much brighter in person.