Book Week: A Bookish Weekend

Our bookish weekend began on Friday with a trip to the library for Helen and me. We stopped at a local cafe for iced coffee and meringues. We had planned to browse through our library books, but ended up chatting with friends passing by instead.

On Saturday we all headed into Woodstock for the big "Bookstock" event which was a day-long festival of book sales, poetry reading, author signings, and displays by local publishers. There was tent after tent filled with authors, publishers, and books. A delight for a book-loving family like ours.

Helen always has such trouble pairing down all the books she finds at these sales.

And what did she do when she got home? She started cutting one up to make a "book box..."

...and applying gesso and mod podge to alter another.
She is very inspired by these soul journaling prompts as well as other altered books sites.

Of course, Lou also became inspired
(I think it was being able to use a utility knife that truly inspired her).
Sigh....I had just vacuumed.

And look what I found at one of the sales....Swallows and Amazons.
Guess what we'll be reading aloud next week???