Free Little Libraries

Our friend, Cheryl Maxwell, invited us to her house for lunch on New Year's Day.  She has an New Year Open House and serves soup to neighbors and friends. Cheryl is such a fun person. You may remember her from last year's Master Gardener Fall Plant Sale.  She was the one who looked so chic and put together in that morning's sub-Arctic temperatures only to reveal that she still had her pajamas on underneath her clothes!

Besides getting to visit with Cheryl and her sweet husband, Richard, at the open house, I also wanted to check out her Free Little Library.

Isn't it adorable!!! Now Cheryl is creative, but she didn't dream this up on her own.  There is a whole Free Little Library movement.  You can look it up on line. Here's what Wiki had to say...

Little Free Library is a nonprofit organization that supports the worldwide movement to offer free books housed in small containers to members of the local community. The organization is based in Hudson, Wisconsin, US. Little Free Libraries are also referred to as community book exchanges, neighborhood book exchanges, book trading posts, pop-up libraries, and micro-libraries, ^[3] and have been likened to human bird feeders. ^[4]

I adore the human bird feeders analogy!!! Notice in the picture that Cheryl's library has a white label on it. When you start a little free library, you can register it and it gets its own number and everything. Isn't that deluxe!!

For more information go to http://littlefreelibrary.org/

                                                                                                       Love ya'll,
                                                                                                       Shelli

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

 ~Anna Quindlen, "Enough Bookshelves," New York Times, 7 August 1991

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

 ~Charles W. Eliot

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. 

~P.J. O'Rourke

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. ~Attributed to Groucho Marx