cool .. even better .. it doesnt scroll .. when you scroll the page ... wish i had a few more around.. might help me with the wabbit population... ken

I change mine at least once a month to echo my mood or the time of year, usually one of my own pics. Throughout December it was one of my Christmas views. Here's my current one. It's of a statue that I love in the garden bed right off our front portal. Lynn

Thanks for the compliments! Dh although not employed as one, is a carpenter by trade so he built it all. The wide shelves are braced, it's just not visible. No need to worry. I have a lot less books than I thought I did! We are trying to collect some from freecyle and friends (one who just threw hundreds away :( ) Dh will also be building some slide out boxes to store misc junk in (toys, wii accessories etc). All of the shelves are 10" deep except for the unit the tv is on. That is 20". 10 is perfect. 8 would be to shallow for my non fiction stuff. The novels are faced to the front of the shelf. I have no idea what to do for curtains. We were originally going to use the ones that are there now and hem them to fit but they look horrible. They are too light and flimsy for the room. Not sure if I should go patterned or not, what colour, curtains, blinds or shades. No clue. I like these but I think black might be too much seeing as the window frame and bookshelves are black. I'm going to go out Friday night and see what I can find. The stripes are wallpaper. It was a spur of the moment decision when we were leaving through the wall covering aisle.

It looks like an architectural embellishment. You could say that, McMann. And you would be.........wrong! LOL Here's a hint: the actual subject measured less than an inch. Jodi, it's funny about the frames. (Well, not so funny, actually.) In my original vision for this display, I was going to use all 5x7 prints in wide-mat museum frames like the ones holding the grasshopper and frosty rose in the second-to-last picture. Since I had a lot of advance notice about the exhibit, I trotted off to AC Moore with my weekly coupons, and collected these frames for 40% off. But when I got the first print order back, I liked the way they looked so much that I decided to go bigger on a lot of them. By this time I no longer had the luxury of using weekly coupons. So I had to pay full price for many of the larger frames and separate mats. All the frames came from Michael's and AC Moore. I bought on sale when I could. The mats were never on sale, and I went for the thickest or double ones. The frames certainly aren't high-end, but they weren't the cheapest of the cheap either. I tried to go for sturdy. Although I love thin black frames and white mats, I wish I had bought more of the wide black frame (that holds the katydid in the fourth picture). I tried to use it w/o a mat at first. It looked fabulous, but of course the print would eventually stick to the glass. So I scrapped that idea.