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#WOOD BOOKENDS HOW TO#

Wood Glue (not No More Nails – actual wood glue).

Four 2″ x 4″ scraps – these are wood scraps, but you could conceivably buy one 2″ x 4″ and then cut it.

Nice marble ones would be hard to come by out here in Fredericton, even considering HomeSense! But, we do have a big bin of leftover bits of wood, so I wondered if I might be able to start there. I don’t normally buy bookends, in fact I only own one other pair and they’re in // the family room // so making a set for my desk collection makes perfect sense! Now, of course, I have a far too many books and not enough shelves or way to show them off. I particularly enjoyed The Astronaut Wives Club.

I love the chic noir genre, and have a penchant for military spouse memoirs. I gave myself a year where I did’t read anything more than a magazine, and then one day I picked up a book (Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn) and haven’t looked back since.

Instead, I’d be done a book within a day and not remember half the plot points. Once I had left the classroom this habit of scanning a page didn’t exactly translate into peaceful afternoons reading.

#WOOD BOOKENDS HOW TO#

You know in university when you had to read hundreds of pages a week/night for classes? I learned how to speed read and essentially traverse a page diagonally. I mean sure, we have a ridiculously large collection of military history and analysis books (we could probably open a library), but it’s only been in the past year that I’ve revived a passion for reading again. It’s time for this month’s Inspired by DIY! If this week seems jam packed from a content perspective, it’s because it is! I don’t normally share three posts in a week, so make sure you tune in on Wednesday and Thursday to catch all the goodness! It’s like Christmas in September! For this month’s challenge I’m making Faux-Marble Bookends, inspired by // these marble bookends from West Elm // using contact paper, vinyl, and wood!