It's Here, It's Here, It's Heeeeere!

Woo!  Time for the unveiling!

In this and this post, I teased what I had been working on,

and now it's time to share it with the Wide, Wide World of Web!

....drumroll...

I give you, 

the Little Free Library!

Isn't it awesome?

I read about the Little Free Library movement in the LA Times last summer,

and vowed to make one for myself.

I love, love love sharing books,

and thought building my own box would be a piece of cake.

(Spoiler alert...

... it was NOT a piece of cake.)

My woodworking skills are rudimentary at best,

and mistakes were definitely made.

But after a month of Sundays,

it looked like I was finished.

EXCEPT...

ARGH!!!

Anything bigger than a paperback wouldn't fit!

So I went back to work, adding another story.

I learned a few things from the first go around, such as:

mark a channel, instead of a single line, for cutting,

so that the end results will be more accurate.

And, use one of those L-shaped thingies to keep things lined up

while attaching them together.

Also, pony up the freakin' $30 for a power screwdriver,

 instead of laboriously doing forty-eleven screws manually.

So after another month of Sundays,

 my fine Little Free Library was ready to take out to the sidewalk.

Do you see what I used for the roof?

CDs!

The idea literally came to me in a dream.

I originally was going to do the library in soft, ocean shades,

and shingle the roof with river rocks.

But once I got the painting done,

I realized that while the rocks may have worked with the Shaker-like simplicity

of the boxes offered on the Little Free Library site...

... my color choices were just too Afro-Circus

 for anything but an unconventional roof.

                          Afro! Circus! Afro!

                            Polka-dot, Polka-dot, Polka-dot! Afro!      

So if you're in Simi Valley, California, stop on by!

I'm on the map!

You'll be able to check out books

with a "no-shush" guarantee.