Today I wanted to share another shelf, but it’s slightly different. This shelf is actually on the same bookcase as our writing books, the shelf just below them.

This is where we keep our board games! I grew up always surrounded by family, which meant lots of talking and lots of games. I can’t wait to have a family game night and stay up until 4am with my some day kids playing monopoly!

I always think it so fantastic that Scott and I can sit playing board games, or card games and just be together. There’s something…extra loving and strengthening in it, if that makes any sense.

A lot of these games were purchased at thrift stores because I prefer classic/original versions of all the games. A lot of these games are from the 70′s and 80′s and I’m always on the hunt for more whenever we go thrifting!

In addition to this shelf with board games, we have a small bucket that has things like cards, dominoes, mind puzzle games and more.
This is my favorite deck of cards:

Isn’t that pattern just so lovely?!
(my second favorite set are mini decks and you feel like giants when you play.)

Check out the Amazon List I made for different versions of our board games!

♥What’s on your bookshelf? (send me a link/credit back to me if you share!)

We have a lot of books and about 5 bookshelves filled to the brim. Last time, I shared my shelf that houses my creative writing and mythology books.
So today, I thought I would share another.

This shelf is on a different book shelf than the last one.
We bought this shelf at a thrift store for $10. (it was a salvage piece but the only thing wrong is that it’s missing a little veneer on the bottom shelf, which I keep meaning to paint!) This is actually my second favorite shelf now. I love the height and the color (espresso). I used this bookshelf as a little piece of interest in my first outfit post too!

The top shelf of this case currently houses all of our “children books”. One of my goals in life (random) is to own every single book by Dr. Seuss (60 something!) and one because I love them and two, I’ve always kept in mind my future children.

So now we go to the thrift stores a lot and I’ve recently begun digging through the kids books sections. I mainly look for things I read as a kid or anything older than 1998 or so. Because I’m weird. (same reason we’re hoarding and searching for VHS and DVDs of the movies and TV shows we watched as kids. Things these days just aren’t up to snuff ladies and gents!)

And now our little collection has grown considerably, when before they were just tucked away in a box for our some-day kids…I decided to put them on a shelf. We have about 50 or so.

Just like last time, I made a list on Amazon of all (or most) of the books on this shelf. Take a peak HERE. There were a few I couldn’t find on there but most are listed in case you want to see all of them or purchase some too!

A few random things:
1 – I own 3 books of Cat in the Hat and 2 of Hop on Pop. I don’t know why to be honest but I can’t seem to part with my extras either.
2 – My favorite book when I was younger was “There’s a Monster at the End of This Book”
3 -We picked up some of these at the thrift store and I haven’t read them yet. But I love that we now have books from different countries (India, Central America and Germany)
4 – I love reading aloud. I think I put a lot of emotion into it.
5 – What were your favorite books as a kid?
6 – Do you buy things for your future kids or am I just insane?
7 – Oh. And I need more books. Obviously.
8 – And! Have you ever read/heard of the Serendipity books? I’m having a super hard time finding them in any kind of store but they were also some of my faves as a kid and I need all of them.

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Don’t forget to ask me questions!

But, I almost never carry a purse anymore, the only things I ever carry with me are my phone, chapstick and a notebook. Not too exciting.
So I was trying to come up with another fun feature I can share, something for you to get to know me.

What better way to get to know a person than to know what books they own, right?
I have a LOT of books. We currently have 4 bookshelves with books on them and all 4 are overflowing and books are piling up. So I’m going to share with you one shelf at a time.

My first shelf is part of this bookcase in my living room. Most of the time, I organize books just in alphabetical order, but in the living room we decided to separate them and make it prettier! So this shelf is the writing/creative shelf and the mythology shelf. (This shelf is missing about 6 books in this picture because I was reading some writing books and I was using a big ole mythology book to press flowers.)

And because there are just so many books, here are my top 5 from this shelf (in no specific order):
1- Bird by Bird
2- Myths of the Norseman
3- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
4- Writing Down the Bones
5- The Poetic Edda

For a full list of what’s on my bookshelf, I made a handy little list on Amazon: CLICK HERE . (just in case you want to buy any of them too!)

♥If you share what’s on your bookshelf, send me a link!