Beautiful Bookshelves
The April edition of Cookie Magazine have done a design feature on bookshelves, One For The Books, perfect shelving units for your child’s tomes and trinkets.
This one was my favorite. See the wallpaper behind, which is pages from the Olivia books by Ian Falconer. What a great idea, although it might be hard getting your head around pulling a book apart.
I wrote a post at Christmas time about Olivia. If you like the Eloise books you will love Olivia, the funkiest, feistiest pig in literature.
If you want something really special, have a look at Teatro Olivia, a play set in which you have six Olivia paper dolls to create your own ballets and theatre. Falconer, whose background is set design, has created a masterpiece with Teatro, stimulating creativity and passion for the arts in his audience.
Katie did a post recently about Eric Carle fabric and there is also Olivia fabric available, I found it here. It’s very gorgeous and it’s about time I bought some.
The very cute toy on the shelf in the picture from Cookie Magazine is made by Mizutamago, a great blog I read regularly.
I love the bookshelfs, but how long would they stay that neat. I feel like I spend all my time clearing up books and putting them away neatly and sometimes in height order and then Tenzin comes in and they are all over the floor in minutes.
04 May 2008 at 8.05 pm
I know Helena, Ned does the same thing. Sometimes I find him in his room just quietly surrounding himself with books.
04 May 2008 at 9.34 pm
I’m all about tearing up books! It’s like getting to live out a child’s fantasy.
My 3-year-old unfortunately never got into tearing books up. If he so much as rips one even by a 1/2 inch or so… he comes to me howling “My book is hurt Mommy. We have to fix it. Get the tape.”
06 May 2008 at 1.37 pm
Some amazing and inspiring book cutting has been going on over at Crooked House - take a look!
http://crookedhouse.typepad.com/crookedhouse/2008/05/book-birdhouse.html
06 May 2008 at 8.15 pm