Creating my Dream Home Library - my book collection and favorite stories
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2022
- Making my Dream Home Library. Books have always been such an important part of my own life that I cannot imagine what it would be without them. I hope that you enjoy making this home library with me and find some new books you might love ❤️
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Hello everyone ❤️ I hope you enjoy just this little project I’ve been up to, a lot more work to do for sure! I know reading isn’t everyone’s interest but I hope if this isn’t yours you can share one that is 🥰 so many lovely hobbies out there that are so rewarding. Sending much love and let me know what types of videos you’d like to see in the future!
This is lovely, Paola. I loved the 'Beauty and the Beast library. Love old libraries and smell of old books. My oldest son is an avid reader. I loved reading to my boys when they were all little, most especially children's books. I don't read much, except church things or baby books to my two grands.
I am very curious... what kind of "unusual" paint brush you use?!?!?!?! Seems to be "less messy" than a traditional "roller" or "brush"... please inform us!🙏✨ Painting is also a work that needs time, patience and focus to make a good job! 😍
I think you should try to make some handcraft things like doll or some wood carving things for decoration
@@mariettehamel12358 it’s a pad painter, you can attached them to a pole just like a roller. I find them easy to use for precise edges, but I’ve never used a roller for big projects so I’m not sure how it compares! I’ll have to try it. Thank you so much ❤️
My snuggery is lined with books and there is room for a flying visit from my husband who brings coffee and the cats and dogs♡ space is essential my young friend
At age 73 I still have an affinity for magic, fairies and books. I write poetry and stories, many of them for my grandchildren. After 40 some years as Registered nurses, my wife and I are retired and are creating our secret garden. Pleased to find someone like minded. May I recommend Gone Away Lake and Return to Gone Away by Elizabeth Enright. First read them as a child in the 50's. They take me to a place and people I cherish. Will certainly look into your new book. All the best.
I love this! Definitely will add on my tbr
I LOVED those books as a kid. Read them several times. Pure magic. Also an RN here. Work is an important part of life but the things we work for...the music, poetry, beauty in nature, family those are some of what make life worth living for!
If you are lover of books then do read Quran
with proper and authentic meanings
It’s just a light therapy for every suffering
incredible way to have a life❤
Thank you for your recomendation.
I’d like to read them❤️
The book corner is always one of the most important places in the home :)
Yes, I want to make one for me too soon.
@@LearnGermanwithMarzipanfrau Great! :) I love marzipan, btw :D
@@glimpseofsol That's cool. Marzipan is delicious. :D
@@LearnGermanwithMarzipanfrau That is sooo true! :D
My favorite book from childhood is “A Little Princess.” It’s about a girl left at a very proper girls school in London while her father was in South Africa getting rich off a diamond mine. She was very rich when she started at the school and the women at the school fawned over her. Later, she received word that her father had lost his fortune and died and the women at the school made her a servant. Rich or poor, though, Sara was the same kind, generous spirit. Also, her father had one more gift for her that eventually arrived.
Doesn't Sara's father used to live in India.
It was India
And same that was one of my favorite books in childhood
What a wonderful tiny world! That's my favorite book too. Sara Crew is my comfort character.❤️
This is my favorite childhood book too
Mine too! My name is Sarah and my mom got me A Little Princess for my 7th birthday because Sara in the book is 7 at the start of the story ❤
I saw all those books and these words came out of my mouth "Look at how many adventures she has been on"
Omg, sameee!
Reading brings me back memories of my childhood where I can sit all day just reading in a public library waiting for my mom while she' working as a seamstress in town.
Watching this video inspired me to get back to it as I lost my touch when it comes to books because I let myself be consumed by social media and screen time. Thank you Paola, because of you I don't check my phone now unless if I need to and I now focus my energy towards baking, reading, music and gardening. This activities fills my soul with gratitude.
Awww...I have been baking and also painting with the kids and grandkids.
It’s funny you mention all day in a library. I LOVE going to a library and can spend hours. It stemmed from the fact we never had a lot of money growing up but I could shop till my hearts content at the library. Magazines, newspapers, genealogy, fiction, non fiction, auto biographies, today they even have kits you can borrow and return, movies cd’s. The one job I hope is still available when I retire is to become a librarian. The world has no idea how important they are. I get that e have the Internet so much is free now but nothing compares to the calm, smells, lighting, mood of a library.
When I was a child I would walk to neighboring library and just sit there in the cool quiet surrounded by books.
My books are my treasures. I too love Tasha Tudor.
Way back in the early 80s I attended an educators reading convention in Denver and Tasha Tudor was a speaker. Such a darling little person! In the question and answer session she was asked where she got her inspiration for all her beautiful little animal drawings. And she said, "Well, really, roadkill." 500 teachers gasped, then roared with laughter!! Your library looks beautiful! I don't think a day has gone by since I was in 4th grade and really remember that Nancy Drew book (that made my heart actually beat harder) that I haven't read at least before bed.
Thanks for sharing the Tasha story!
I have two DVD’s featuring Tasha Tudor: “Take Joy” about her daily life, and “Take Peace” about how she celebrated the holidays. What a unique individual and creative mind! I too added a home library (floor to ceiling and wall to wall with bookshelves), and it’s my sacred space for reading, resting, dreaming, and gathering myself. We book-loving introverts must have our energy re-charging stations! ☺️ My garden and my library are essential to my well-being. Yours is lovely, Paola. (Mine has green walls too…so calming.) Wishing you many happy hours there.
The girl who drank the moon is a beautiful children's book. It has magic, witch, dragon. It's so good ✨
Thank you!, that sounds wonderful. I just ordered it from my library to read to my 7 year old daughter.
barely a minute in an already beautiful as always
16 here and i absolutely agree. this is the dream right here! :)
17 here, hehe, felt the need to continue the thread- and yes, what a dream! One day, for us three... one day :)
And I’m 18 with the same dream. I hope we can all do this someday!! To the dreamers💗💗
17, have the same dream
I'm 46 and a mom. I'm sending all you young ones a life of peace with lots of books and cottage fairy-type memories.
When I was a little girl, my favorite books were Black Beauty, Heidi, and anything to do with the sea and cozy harbors. These books set the tone for my current love of animals and traveling. I now read non-fiction relating to animals and history as well as memoirs and autobiographies. Reading never gets old and it certainly allows quiet moments of reflection and thought.
Hi. Would you write what else books did you like in your childhood? Thank you
Paola, you build things- you built this beautiful community.
Paola, first let me say: congratulations, you’ve almost reached 1 million subscribers AND you never fail to create wonderful, inspirational content that makes me fall in love with the world again. When I was 13, my small, yet whimsical space was overflowing with books. I donated many of them a while ago when we moved from a Spanish airbase to the United States. It was hard to let go of the novels I had grown up with…the novels that I treasured. I stashed many of them away in boxes so that I wouldn’t have to part with them. Fast forward a year and a series of events occurred that made me forget how beautiful reading was. I again sold/donated my books because at that time, I lost that sense of passion for reading. When I started watching your channel, I found myself cherishing the little things, like nature and wildflowers and books. You changed my life, I believe.
Thank you 💛
..yes indeed! I am happy for Paola too! I appreciate how she doesn't ever ask people that view her channel to subscribe, that is silly when obviously we are always coming back view her new or binge on her videos. Thank you for posting this and if (I believe she does) Paola has time to read these comments, thank you Paola for having common sense and not asking people to subscribe, because we have subscribed, most likely about 99.9999999% of those who view your channel are indeed subscribed😇
@@TheBestUsEver1 100%. Paola is an inspiration 💛
Piper,
Agreed! Paola is an inspiration!
I was a bookseller, it was my working profession. You can imagine I had thousands of books. When I moved some years ago I gave three quarters of them away. Now there are only a few hundred left.
It was very hard for me, because I can easily let go things except books.
But it was necessary, because there was simply no place for them anymore and they started to overwhelm me. It was a long process, and I still miss some of them, but their stories stay in my heart...
Absolutely.
Went through a similar thing as we recently downsized for retirement. I felt a little better donating them to our local friends of the library and the painting books to my local Art League. At least other will enjoy them as I have.
I've lost many of my beloved books over the years, since I was always somewhat poor and struggled financially and moved around a lot without any help, so I could only take what was absolutely necessary. I know how it feels to give up the books you love so much. Fortunately, the internet allows us to find our favorite old books for repurchase with relative ease! I've been rebuilding my collection slowly again
wow! thousands! Some might see it as a negative but for me that's my dream!!! I'm always envious of the likes of you!
@@anthonyw2931 yes, there were really thousands. I had 5 bookshelves with 5 boards each, and the books were in a double row in them. And then there were dozens of crates full of books in the cellar.....
Btw -- you can be member of a library and have access to the whole world.
Hi Paola - The bookshelf is perfect. You did a great job. Don't change it as it has an antique look to it so perfect for your type of house. Have you read "Anne of Green Gables"? That was one of the first books I really read as an adult. Sadly, I did not grow up with books in the house as a child & was not encouraged to read. It was only after I had my daughter that I developed a love of reading. And now it is my passion as is sewing. Muchas Gracias. Mi esposo es de Cuba.
Thank you for giving me permission to read children's books. I have stacks of books, mostly non fiction, waiting to be read, but the enjoyable fiction ones (like The Cat Who ... series) have been tucked away. Your reminder that books provide a mental health break resonated with me, and has inspired me to take time to give myself that gift.
Paola, I love your plants, the way you arrange the house with whatever you find around you gives it a very natural and unique look. It truly represents you and all that you stand for, i.e, creating your own abode. It's blissful to just watch. Love from India, Assam.
The kitty is getting so big. I'm surprised you didn't end up with green paw prints throughout your beautiful home. The library is wonderful. 📚🐾
Me too!!!
That kitty seems very well-behaved. Mine would've left footprints
@@elaineoshea9828 Alizarin!!! 🙈🙈🙈
How on earth did you get it out again?
Hehe! She is usually quite mischievous but for some reason she disliked the paint and wouldn’t touch it. She does get into plenty of other trouble though haha! Thank you very much ❤️
@@TheCottageFairy 😊🐾
CONGRATULATIONS ON 1 MILLION SUBS‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ You have blown it out of the water just by being yourself and shining your beautiful and sweet light with the world. You are a much needed breath of fresh air 🥰
Awww!!! Thank you so much!!! ❤️❤️
Wow thanks for the heads up, I hadn't noticed!!!
One of my wife's favorite childhood books was The Fairy Rebel by Lynn Reid Banks (with the original cover art). She is now sharing that with our daughter, who is so immersed in the magical realm of the story that she asks for it before bed every night. As soon as we tell her we can't read her a bed time story if she isn't in bed, her face lights up, she runs into her room, and dives under her covers for story time! We both love sharing our childhood favorites with her now, and my wife wanted me to share the title with you in case you needed something new on your bookshelves. We both enjoy your videos.
Your dress is beautiful. I, too, love wearing dresses everyday. I also wear floral prints. I enjoy your videos-the music, your home, your calming voice, your pets, your outdoor surroundings, your family, but I always like to watch what you are going to wear.
I love your nod to Anne of Green Gables. It made me smile.😄
Do you casually know where someone could buy dresses like the one Paola wears? My wife is interested in that. Thanks!
@@bobygallagher8140 Paola shops at thrift stores for her clothes.
I LOVE that you communicated with Tasha Tudor!! This made me very happy. Sometimes I feel like wonderful old things and people are getting forgotten, and seeing this video warmed my heart.
Pride and Prejudice is one of my most favorite books. So happy 😊 to see it on your shelf.
You, Paola, blend a love of nature, fantasy books, animals and seeing life through a lens of wonder so perfectly. Thank you for sharing these lovely slices of escapism with the world 🌿✨📚 Also take advantage of those free advance copies! I used to work in children’s book publishing for half a decade and that’s definitely one of the things I miss the most 😅
Whenever I paint, I get it all over myself - I'm impressed. Lovely reading nook. Even as a woman of a certain age, I prefer reading young adult and light-hearted fare, so I'm with you on this. I find that I just don't enjoy a lot of modern adult fiction, nor do I enjoy horror or violent crime stories. The world is hard enough that in my leisure time, I prefer to leave that behind for just a little while.
I smiled when I read your comment because I am just the same regarding the painting and reading selections. ☺️
Me too! Just reread the Velveteen Rabbit. I collect the Newberry winners :)
I’m so glad to hear there are people like you, I too love to read and I often re-read young adult and even a few of my favorites from childhood. There is a joy in traveling to far oft places in a book. I like you, don’t want to read horror,crimes, or sleazy books.
I am just the same when it comes to reading! Reading lighter-hearted stories is good for my mental health.
I agree with all of you! I used to read psychological thrillers and crime novels but I now find that I do not enjoy these at all. Something more light hearted is more to my taste and I am going to seek out some of the books that Paola loves. ❤️
If i visited you, i would feel like Belle being in awe of your library :D
❤❤❤❤If I could only watch one of your videos,THIS IS IT!!!!!! I absolutely LOVE BOOKS! When you walked down the stairs with the stack of books in your arms(3:21) I shouted for joy!!!❤❤My second favorite moment was at 4:48,when you turned on the light to your bookshelf and then, with open arms, presented your labor of love to the camera.5:10 was perhaps the grand finale for me. To enjoy the fruits of your labor of love. Thank you for sharing this!❤👍
I'm so glad to hear another adult enjoys reading children's books. Sometimes reading a childhood book again takes me to a place of wonder and escape of the real world. Everyone should sit down with a good children's book and get lost in the pages.
The gift of reading… a gift indeed!
Ooh, love the paint color. Now you need a cozy big chair to curl up in by the bookshelves!
Your bookcases are marvellous in that space and that colour green you've painted the walls with is charming and very woodsy. I wish you the best always and may God bless you and your family. And thank you!
My favorite childhood book was "The Boxcar Children"! I love illustrators. 👍😎🇨🇦 Good reminder of the value of quiet time. 🌸
The Boxcar Children was my first book that I remember reading aloud on my own.
Your cozy bookshelf and room makes you happy and grounded I am sure. It’s looks lovely. I love books too. I have all kinds. Cicely Mary Barker’s fairy Books, Tasha Tudor, Beatrix Potter along with old books of all kinds, Dickens, poetry, art. I love to have books around me, they give me a peaceful feeling. I searched high and low for my first book I remember reading myself as a child and enjoyed so much that I will never forget it , “Five Little Peppers and how they grew”. It started me on a love of books and the adventures that can be found in them. I found it a few years ago and keep it near me. Every time I see it, I smile.
Childhood memories are forever.
@My Italian Fairy Path
I was so glad to see your reply. I recall reading this book at my Italian grandparents home. My grandparents Nino & Regina immigrated from Salo and Maderno, Italy around lake Garda. Five little Peppers is a old book. Mine is dated 1938. We went to dinner every Sunday at my grandparents and I brought my book with me. I have such fond memories of reading this at my loving grandparents home. Those long ago days bring a smile to me too! Greetings to you from Michigan, US
I always find the sight of full bookshelves very comforting, no matter if it's in someone's house or an office, especially if it's old book. Thank you for this video, it made my morning 👋🌻
Oh, and congratulations on getting nearer and nearer to 1million subs 👏👏
beautiful green walls! I am sure your kitten was a great helper!
Tasha Tudor was a delightful woman artist and author. Her home and life style out of step with society. a woman unafraid of living as she felt. What a treasure go have that letter penned by her son. ❤️
The two activities I find most healing in my life are knitting and reading. Both are productive, and knitting provides me with gifts to give to loved ones.
I will read almost anything. :-)
Your library looks great. You did a wonderful job Paola in building your shelves. And the paint color you chose is lovely.
Your sweet, precious cat is getting bigger. She loves to be with you and see what you are up to. Too adorable
Thank you for sharing your time with us.
Be well, be blessed 🧡
So lovely! Can’t wait to add your book to my home library🏡🧚
I love your bookshelf! Anytime I need some comfort, I read Anne of Green Gables or Little Women. They were some of my favorites growing up and they still hold a special place in my heart
These are my favorite comfort books too!!!!
A few books i've always loved, of my mums are The enchanted wood, the Magic Faraway tree and The Wishing-Chair which are all by the English author Enid Blyton. All magical and whimsical themed stories
paola your videos have a way of turning my day around for the better. THANK you 💜🙏🙏💜🙏💜🙏💜🙏💜🙏💜🙏💜🙏
Finding a balance between what is considered my time and that which I dedicate in service to others can be quite the daunting task. You bringing this to the fore allows us for some time of self-reflection! \🕶/
My lovely daughter built me a wall length bookcase for all my books. I love it dearly.
Your book area looks lovely! I too am an avid reader. Back before computers my family owned Colliers Encyclopedias and every year they would send a year book to update etc. My Mom always waited till I came home from school so I could open the package and have first dibs on it. Your video reminded me of that happy memory! ❤️
That book case is impressive! I relate to only being able for the lighter stories, I can’t cope with the stress of reading the darker variety … I’m in the story when I read so best be in a happy warm place 🌳🦔🌾
Your bookshelves beautiful , and looks a great reading area ❤ Glad you have been able to create that space in your home❤📚📖 Also love your dress!❤
In the mid-70’s I wrote to E.B. White, the author of a favorite book - Charlotte’s Web. Was recently going through things when I found his reply letter. Books opened up a world of fantasy that I adored.
Oh my gosh when you pulled out the flower fairies book I almost cried because I remember how much I loved that book and I really truly believed that all the flowers in the garden were magical and that someday I would find a fairy. That book filled me with so much joy and hope and made everything so magical. You reminded me of such a good time in my life. ❤️
Isn't your life good anymore?
@@annarodopoulou3602 Yes, my life is great now, in fact. I didn’t say that it’s not. I was simply stating that Paola’s book reminded me of such a good time in my life, it’s still good now, but the time that I was reminded of was a different type of good. It was a magical time filled with hope when I was a child, and now I am an adult, living a different kind of good life, still wonderful and magical. I was just really happy to be reminded of a happy memory. :)
The books that we read as children are so special! I remember a book about Native American masks... It never failed to fill me with a sense of creativity and love for color and expressive design, and an appreciation for the human face in art. Alas, I don’t remember the book’s name nor author, and have vainly tried to locate it online.
We love Tasha Tudor…we have some of her books Forever Christmas, Heirloom Crafts, Tasha Tudor Garden, Tasha World, and her prayer book. This women is so amazing and very talented with all her handmade crafts. My children loved her corgi-village Fair, and her beautiful illustrations books.
I am sure you have enough to think about but, as I watched this, I envisioned you doing a cozy winter book review, now and again,where you shared a book that you have loved. You could read excerpts and just talk about the book in the very cozy setting of your home. Perhaps there could be themes; classic children's books, new fantasy literature, your 5 favorites, a book of the month reading club...etc. As if you don't have enough to do! But it would be lovely!
I have always loved faeries too! And...I am 74. ;0) Having books around you that you cherish is such a comforting feeling. I have lived in the country most of my life now and love fantasizing about the faery folk, elves, and sprites and all the other creatures associated with the woods. It is so refreshing to listen to and see your vlogs. XO
I don't know if you have come across them, but the Tiffany Aching series by Terry Pratchett is wonderful. It paints the fair folk in a not too rosy light, I'm afraid, but is actually quite true to traditional stories. it also turns the image of the story book witch on its head. Also, vitally, it has a girl as the main protagonist and is an inspiration for all girls, young and old. Highly recommended.
So funny that you mentioned Tasha Tudor because I describe you as the modern day Tasha Tudor when I recommend your channel to my family and friends. I can’t wait to add your book to my overflowing book shelves!
You have such an impeccable eye for beauty. I love how you organized the bookshelves and added the tastefully placed objects on top.
I am also a fan of Tasha Tudor and I have that book of hers as well. I got to attend her Memorial Service in Vermont and also tour her home and gardens another time. It was so exciting to walk through her home, I shall never forget it! Her last living Gorgi was there and that was a thrill as well! She truly is an inspiration!
@@PatAudreyK my middle name is Ann, interesting. I live in Virginia now. Born and raised in NJ, lived in Pennsylvania most of my life. I can only wish to live in Vermont! If I could, I would! I love New England and visit as often as I can.
Well, our paths must have crossed!
One of my favorite childrens books is THE COTTAGE AT THE END OF THE LANE by Elaine Mills. It is a foldout dollhouse book. Its enchanting. I introduced it to my five year old grand daughter and she loves it too.
Hii ate Paola or big sister in Filipino, I'm an avid fan of yours. Your videos are my comfort. I watch them when I'm free. I love this video of yours building your own home library. Same as me I'm also a book lover and I have a small library in my room. Thank you very much you're one of my inspiration💜 Continue to be a blessing and inspiration😊😘 God bless you🌸
-Nicole
I must say i love all of your videos BUT YOUR BOOK VIDEOS ARE MY ONE TRUE COMFORT WATCH🤍 Thank you for sharing this. Your home library looks so aesthetic and most importantly Real✨🤍 Hoping to see more book related videos from you esp cozy read with me🫶🏻
I love the colors you use
I wanna say thanks for the amazing content you produce for us! It helps me through my anxiety and it makes me feel cozy in a world where anything could happen. Congratulations on 1 million subscribers!! 🥳🥳 you really earned it! Honestly you should have at least 5 million! Thanks again for the journey.
I hope you get better soon in your new environment for living!
Reading is the breath of life to my heart and soul. Your videos are as well. I cant waitvto get your book !!!!! We are kindred spirits 💗
I lose myself in your videos, thank you. Those books sound so interesting to me xxx
I can never bring myself to get rid of books. Like the beautiful little cup, or the flower vase or my favourite winter curtains they are all part of the decor in my home and each one is sealed tight in my heart. Thank you for introducing me to Tasha Tudor. As an Englishwoman, she was not part of my childhood but I wish she had been. What a delightful lady. I was saddened to read that she was estranged from 3 of her children. It reminded me of one of my favourite books 'The Shell Seekers' by Rosamund Pilcher. Have you read it Paola? I think you would like her work.
Your library is so pretty! Your kitty is so beautiful! You need to paint her!❤😘🙏🏻
Beautiful bookcases-well done! 🤩🥳🥰😍
I thought I had a lot of books lol! You win Paola! Books have character of their own. They hold the secret of the story within their pages yet they willingly give up the secret to those who care.
Wow!! I love your comment. I’m going to write it down with your name and make a bookmark 🔖. I hope that’s okay.
@@eileenpopiel1326 thank you Eileen! Of course I don’t mind 😀
Hi Paola,
I so enjoyed your video, as always! I am a retired school teacher and have an enormous number of books.
My husband has built me 2 gorgeous bookshelves, but I still have many boxes of books.
I just wanted to share something I did with my students while reading with them.
We "built" a little "barn" in a corner of the classroom. We just used red bulletin board paper to make the "roof."
We drew black lines to make it look something like shingles. I traced an enlarged projection of Wilbur ,standing/leaning
next to the fence in his yard, onto pink paper. My husband built us a quick little fence for Wilbur's yard. And we borrowed
a milking stool from his parents for "Fern" to sit on while she visited with Wilbur. Each day one of my students was allowed
to go to "Wilbur's yard" and read to him. It just happened one day one of my asked if he could read to Wilbur! I was so
delighted and, of course, let him use his earned time to read to Wilbur. That boy had never shown any interest in reading until
that day. It still warms my heart thinking about him. All my students got to have a turn as the days passed. It was so exciting
to see their eyes sparkle as each student's turn approached.
Must go, ALOHA,
Sue (grew up in Hawaii) (now living with woods all around us in northern Maine)
Wonderful story! How are you enjoying northern Maine? My husband and I are considering moving there.
Its been days and I keep coming back to your channel Paola hoping I could watch another inspiring simple rural living from you. I feel like its a great escape from depression and anxiety watching the little things you do in your simple yet magical cottage.
Thank you. Love your reading room so calming. You’re a beautiful soul❤️❤️❤️🇨🇦
Beautiful !!! Thank you for inspiring my inner child. Love the Chronicles of Narnia and I loved reading Enid Blyton, The Enchanted Forest and The Folk of the Magic Faraway Tree. No need to change the bookshelves, they are beautiful and you did a wonderful job putting them together.
Caroline I loved Enid Blyton too. The Faraway Tree books were special favourites.
I don't comment often, but I thought why not leave my two book recommendations that I might expect to be in your bookshelf already. The first is Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine and the second is The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale. So wholesome, very magical, lots of animals too
My girls LOVE the Shannon Hale books. Maybe I should read them too!
It's so lovely to see your joyful, playful side.
Your pensive side is inherently beautiful but these sparkling eyes and playful delivery make me wanna cross the ocean and pay you a visit in your hometown
Hope that won't put you off or overwhelm you :) Sometimes we need to put out defenses to protect our inner world and well-being.
I love your videos in nature, or when you talk about plants, touch the plants, reflect on life and your journey while in nature.
I also love nature but I've never had this connection to the plant world. So, you telling us about them opens the door into a new world for me. It helps me to discover some repressed or lost parts of my own self.
Thank you for your work, Paola 💞
I adore being around books. I work in a library and find it so magical being surrounded by thoughts and ideas. My reading time is my "me" time and I'm so glad you can enjoy seeing your collection all together. I imagine the books like it too😊. Thank you for your lovely content and for all that heavy lifting😆
That is my favorite color for soothing spaces. I made a quilt and curtains and tablecloth for my bedroom with the green as a background and pink and lavender hydrangeas. It cozies me!
Seeing some of the most beautiful books you have, I’m blown away at some of the titles. They are classics and one can really be whisked away to another land through them. Just what we all need. I love your bookcases and the coziness and calm they bring. They also bring me much joy and bring me close to my mom who gave me my love of books. I also have quite a collection, mostly Medical, Psychology, Anatomy, Holistic Recipes and Lifestyle, Nature, Apothecary, Foresting, and a few classics also. I’m now entering into my next chapter of my book collection and bringing home more books of the wonderful world of Faeries, Faerie miniatures, DIY Faerie everything and am loving making my home a Faerie, Crystal, Tarot, sparkly, otherworldly, soft, gentle and loving place to find peace, calm, kindness and happiness. Blessings! ❤
As far back as I can remember “words, words, words were my secret passion. It is no surprise that one of the most enjoyable jobs I ever had over the years was at a public library. I collected a lot of books over the yrs and always made a special place for them. I have recently downsized considerably, but still have a couple small bookcases that contain my favorites. I love the library you have created. It’s cozy and inviting. Great job!
We read Tasha Tudor when I homeschooled my son in the late 90s. Her books are wonderful! What a gift to receive such a letter. We also loved and met Patricia Polacco, a lovely woman. I'm not a fan of placing books grouped by color. It's just not natural. Your library is beautiful and soothing.
What do u mean it’s not natural? I group my books by color and it feels very natural and soothing to me!
Well, that was immensely satisfying to watch!
I am so happy you have a private collection of dream books-nothing like a good to read and a warm cup of tea.
There is something so comforting in being surrounded by books. A children's book I love is The Story of the Root Children by Sibylle von Olfers. It was originally published in German. I think you would love both the story and the illustrations.
I just ordered this book, thanks to you! It looks precious ‼️
Yes, and there's also a book featuring a quilted version of this treasure - what an amazing project!
I love the new bookshelves. Great job! 😃👍🏼
I love the books on your bookshelves! As an adult, I tend to read nonfiction. I just recently started reading fiction again and it made my heart feel so warm to enjoy traveling to a distant land and letting my heart run free. Just typing this brought a tear to my eye for how happy it makes me. Thank you for being you and sharing the beauty in your life, it is truly these little things that make life such a joy to live 🥰
I had the Tasha Tudor Book of Fairy Tales when I was a child, I am now 59. How lovely to see it again! Even though I live on a sailboat, I have my favourites, and a collection of 300+ books that I will always make room for.
Thanks for reminding me of the joys of childhood
Favourite books I read as a child and will read again..: Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton Porter, Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett and Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfield.
That’s such a lovely reading room. It’s like something straight out of a storybook, and my heart aches for it. Thank you for sharing it with us!
Thank you for your transparency it is comforting to hear your sharing, I enjoy up cycling items, giving them new use and honoring my budget. Creating things increase my joy. I am a great grand mother that continues to discover and learn from many different sources. ♥
I love that color on the walls. Your Cat is your biggest fan.
I triple love that book shelf, great character, conversation piece, sturdy.
Thank you dear Paola.
I love the wisdom I learn each time I read THE LITTLE PRINCE, THE VELVETEEN RABBIT and THE RUNAWAY RABBIT! These 3 have grown with me into my adulthood.
I have just found reading 📚 as a lovely hobby. Some of my favourites are Jane Eyre, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Far from the madding crowd, Thomas Hardy is very descriptive of the beautiful countryside around Dorset in his books. And I'm planning to read all of Charles Dickens, I'm now on my 9th novel of his, and have loved everything I've read so far! 📚 Your little reading room is beautiful! 😊
Yaaay, 1 Million!! :) I don't know how you made books on bookshelves can look so beautiful....
I love your channel so much. Favorite children’s books. The whole Oz series. There are many more than just the Wizard of Oz. Ozma of Oz is a favorite. A Wrinkle in Time of course. Edward Eager books. Half Magic. Knights Castle. the Thyme Garden. Another book I loved so much. The Cuckoo Clock. All of these are about children going to magical places. There are multiple Mary Poppins books as well. I am smiling remembering all these wonderful stories. They really are still part of me 72 years later. My father read to us when we were tiny. My grandmother gave us books she loved as a child. What a blessing books are.
That is so lovely! I really look forward to your videos. I am very sad and they lighten my mood. Thank you.
By oak, ash and thorn was honestly one of my favourite reads from earlier this year, it’s absolutely charming!
The paint color and shelves really remind me of the room my husband and I lived in our first year of marriage. It was a small space but that one corner had plenty of lovely books mostly from college. Mostly non-fiction, though a shelf or two of fiction. Now in our own place we have 3 tall IKEA “billy” shelves and yet still several cases of books under our bed and couch. One day maybe we can have a full room of books!
It was very interesting watching as you painted your wall and my television seemed to become transparent, becoming the exact color of the wall behind it. I don't subscribe to many RUclips channels and none of the others are slightest bit like The Cottage Fairy. I guess it's the shared aesthetics.
Amazing job on the bookcases and such an awesome collection of books! Always do what you love! I Always enjoy your content 🙋🏻♂👍❤☺
How lovely Paola! It is a perfect reading space. Calm and soothing ❤️🧚♀️
Paola you are makings good society, your idea is beautiful. Reading books is the way to make world bright and beautiful at ideological level. You are a leader for makes better the world.love you for your thinking.
My happy place is the library. 😊
I love being surrounded by books! My happy moment on the weekends is a cup of tea and a book. I love these videos where you share what you have been reading. It provides suggestions for new reads. 👍💕
Yes. It is befitting that you have a home lIbrary as you work in a cute bookstore...congrats!