I love how cleverly you edited all your shelves together! I enjoyed going through and identifying where each shelf is in your house (or, at least, where it was a year ago). Definitely agree with mom that this would make a wonderful puzzle:)
Also, sadly, I cannot answer the question what is on my shelves because I have no shelves... I have random chairs that hold all manner of clothes and books and art supplies that rotate what's on top depending on what I'm using at the time :P Certainly wouldn't make for nearly a pleasing a picture as yours!
Added intrigue for someone who knows our house so well! Especially since you helped organize many of them! Perhaps this will be a present of some sort, turning it into a puzzle...
It must be an Oliver or Carley thing: Reading and overflowing bookshelves! My bookshelves were seriously lightened by the removal and distribution of decades worth of contents; a move to a MUCH smaller house necessitated the drawdown. But Praise the Lord! My collection is coming back! And it looks familiar: Bibles, Bible Study, and Prayerbooks; mystery novels (Jance, Connelly,Penny); family-friendly novels (Flag, Mittford), old yearbooks, my thesis, and my dissertation. These and some treasured childhood books—lovingly worn and somewhat threadbare but STILL treasured—reveal much of my life as a great grandmother.
I have certainly learned some of my love of books from you and from your daughter! And I have every intention of passing that love down to your great-granddaughter <3
Whimsical! I carried out a similar study with Sara summer 2021 when I pulled out my key fob on a date and took off each item, laying them out onto the table one by one and noting the stories each piece told. We thought about the realms of life—work, school, home, car—all jangling together, the places the keys bought access to, what the access communicated about class and privilege. It's still one of my favorite memories from that summer.
My shelves are mostly occupied by clothing and cardboard boxes, displaying my state of transition in this season.
It's interesting what physical pieces of our lives, even the small ones, can hold so much of our story. Keys, shelves, wallet, recipe books, picture albums; they're focal points for who we are.
Such fun games! I really like Terraforming Mars, which is a similar gameplay to those two but with a sci-fi spin.
I thought my shelves were mostly books, but I realized how many other shelves there are in our house. I wanted to include more kitchen shelves because those are very important to me, but I couldn't get a good angle to photograph them.
I love how cleverly you edited all your shelves together! I enjoyed going through and identifying where each shelf is in your house (or, at least, where it was a year ago). Definitely agree with mom that this would make a wonderful puzzle:)
Also, sadly, I cannot answer the question what is on my shelves because I have no shelves... I have random chairs that hold all manner of clothes and books and art supplies that rotate what's on top depending on what I'm using at the time :P Certainly wouldn't make for nearly a pleasing a picture as yours!
Added intrigue for someone who knows our house so well! Especially since you helped organize many of them! Perhaps this will be a present of some sort, turning it into a puzzle...
It must be an Oliver or Carley thing: Reading and overflowing bookshelves! My bookshelves were seriously lightened by the removal and distribution of decades worth of contents; a move to a MUCH smaller house necessitated the drawdown. But Praise the Lord! My collection is coming back! And it looks familiar: Bibles, Bible Study, and Prayerbooks; mystery novels (Jance, Connelly,Penny); family-friendly novels (Flag, Mittford), old yearbooks, my thesis, and my dissertation. These and some treasured childhood books—lovingly worn and somewhat threadbare but STILL treasured—reveal much of my life as a great grandmother.
May it ever be!
Great Grandma Joan😊
I have certainly learned some of my love of books from you and from your daughter! And I have every intention of passing that love down to your great-granddaughter <3
Whimsical! I carried out a similar study with Sara summer 2021 when I pulled out my key fob on a date and took off each item, laying them out onto the table one by one and noting the stories each piece told. We thought about the realms of life—work, school, home, car—all jangling together, the places the keys bought access to, what the access communicated about class and privilege. It's still one of my favorite memories from that summer.
My shelves are mostly occupied by clothing and cardboard boxes, displaying my state of transition in this season.
It's interesting what physical pieces of our lives, even the small ones, can hold so much of our story. Keys, shelves, wallet, recipe books, picture albums; they're focal points for who we are.
What a fun collage! I love seeing some of my favorite boardgames on your shelf (Everdell and Wingspan). My shelfs hold mostly books though...
Such fun games! I really like Terraforming Mars, which is a similar gameplay to those two but with a sci-fi spin.
I thought my shelves were mostly books, but I realized how many other shelves there are in our house. I wanted to include more kitchen shelves because those are very important to me, but I couldn't get a good angle to photograph them.
I am familiar with Terraforming Mars, but we don‘t own it. Right now we are playing Noah‘s Ark.
If I would count in my cupboard there definitely is more than just books. And yes, kitchen stuff is important since I love cooking.
Wonderful! It should be turned into a puzzle!
Might be a future gift!