Bedtime Stories

Do you like bedtime stories?

I do.

Before I show you today's project, I thought I'd share an excerpt from one of my favorites.

Yes, BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND (seriously, I got an e-mail) it's my mom crush, DR. SEUSS. (you MUST read this out loud for the full effect)

"The news

Just came in

From the County of Keck

That a very small bug

By the name of Van Vleck

Is yawning so wide

You can look down his neck.

This may not seem

Very important, I know.

But it is. So I'm bothering

Telling you so.

A yawn is quite catching, you see. Like a cough.

It just takes one yawn to start other yawns off.

Creatures are starting to think about rest.

Two Biffer-Baum Birds are now building their nest.

They do it each night. And quite often I wonder

How they do this big job without making a blunder.

But that is their problem.
Not yours. And not mine.

The point is: They're going to bed.

And that's fine."

I really can't explain why I LOVE this so much. That brilliant rhyming is so orderly, and calming. And HILARIOUS.

So, ANYWAY, I would read bedtime stores like this every night, if I didn't have THIS by my bed.

See the headless lamp? A little difficult to read by.

I found a plain white shade at the Goodwill, and got out my textured wallpaper and paint. I TOLD you you'd see this stuff again.

Not bad for $1.99, huh? (the shade is a little small, I know)

Now if only I could get my hands on a copy of the Grinch...

Welcome Lamp Partiers! I've linked my silly post up to the Nester's Lampalooza party!