dkline...Thanks for sharing your news! It's always so good that when you work at something...that you LOVE your work!!! This sounds perfect for you! GJ Heaven!!! Have fun and share your gardens with us (when you get to be in them!) Jeanne S.

LOL If I am stuck in the past it's the past where bookcases actually held only books! :D Now some people don't even have books but use them to hold decorative objects only. I do know tho, that change can be difficult so be easy on yourself as it may take awhile to think of this room as having a different purpose. If you could move your DD's belongings to her new room and use items from other rooms in your home on the bookshelves it might be easier. I strongly advise using a fair number of books as IMO otherwise it's difficult to have a good looking set of shelves unless one has a collection of, for example, McCoy pottery. If there are too many disparate items and few books it can IMO tend to look cluttered. Also too many small items lead to a cluttered look. You can group a few related smaller items for more impact. To answer your question about the distance between shelves - IMO that depends on the size of items in the bookcase. Arranging items nicely on shelves is all about balance and one needs to take into consideration not only size/mass but also color and shape. I would arrange books of like subject together for ease of finding a book. I'd place them on the shelves with the largest books on or near the bottom shelves, then smaller books further up. Some books can be stacked horizontally. This stack can be used as a riser to hold a decorative object. Fill in spaces between the books with decorative items. It's more personal if you have things that relate to your interests/hobbies. Pictures, either photos of people or framed/unframed art, can be placed on easels or leaned. Plants also give texture and life. Play around with it for awhile and even take pictures to really see. Somehow a picture will show more how something looks than merely looking at it. The term 'merchandising' bookshelves has become a valid decorating term whether we like it or not. :D Used all over the 'net especially on blogs.

The little girl next door discovered "Let It Go" a few weeks ago and has been singing it outside. All. The. Time. Unlike many of you, I actually like (or at least liked) the song, but heavens to pete is it overexposed. My daughter has been receiving musical instruction in school including reading music. She had vocal music in K-3 and strings (she plays violin) in 4 and 5. She's signed up for orchestra as an elective in middle school. I think the music program was primarily funded (possibly entirely funded) by PTA fundraising and by grants but it's been great. I sing in a church choir and until last year was also part of a small women's ensemble that sang monthly at retirement homes (we went on hiatus when my director fell and suffered a head injury--I'm afraid now that we're never going to resume. I learned to read music with piano lessons as a kid, but it was also taught in elementary school music class. And then I was in choir all through junior high and high school (and a bit in college). I went on a road trip with my daughter earlier this summer, and when we first got on the road I thought she was going to want to listen to nothing but top 40 the whole trip. I made a case for listening to country in the areas where that was 90% of what was on the airwaves (there aren't many country stations where we are from). We also listened to some classical, some religious choral music, some 80s power ballads, and a bit of metal. One of the things that drives me crazy about many young people is their rigid conviction in the superiority of whatever narrow set of music happens to be on trend at the moment (this bugged me even when I was a teen). I'm happy to have a kid with eclectic tastes (for now, anyway; she's not a teen yet).

This is just me, but I would only buy a t-shirt if it had a bit longer sleeves (couple of inches more). So you should do market research??? about what your main audience is. For example, I'm thinking (though not certain) that older people like me (58) usually like longer sleeves. But if your target audience is younger...then the sleeve length is probably fine. Another thing...being a gardener...I hardly ever buy anything white, because I tend to get dirty. Again...it depends on your target audience...younger people like my daughters really like white....but then they don't garden. What do you mean by "give room for potential."??? The rose is beautiful and more in line with what I would buy. I would buy that rose on a hoody (not white) or on a t-shirt with a bit longer sleeves and not white. I hope that helps. I wonder what others think.