where you can read other bloggers’ posts!This time of year is always perfect for looking back on all that we’ve accomplished in the past year, and in years past, and then looking forward to the new year with big hopes and plans.

That may come in handy!I have seen some mighty impressive bookshelves out there in internet-land in my day.Really pretty ones that are perfectly arranged and perfectly styled.

I’ve even seen some really impressive tutorials on how to “get the look” of these bookshelves and the people who wrote them have always been so talented and so helpful with all of their great advice.But honestly, those “how to style your shelves” articles always make my head spin.It starts off innocently enough with them telling me to start with a few books, or larger objects, or blue things, or whatever.

Pretty soon though, it’s descended into me needing to find 87 different objects which are exactly 68% the size of one another and exactly 1/2 a shade lighter than the third item from the left on the bottom shelf to make the whole scheme balance out….and it just gets uglier from there.

#aintnobodygottimeforthat.

Well, actually a lot of people have time for that.above my fantel.

to kind of hint at the idea of faux architectural detailing.I loved it so much that I added a few more squares on to some other walls in the room and now I love it even more.. Here’s the room about a year ago:.

Not quite the same angle, but you get the idea.. Here’s the room closer to when we moved in:.And here’s now!.