Scene of the Blog Featuring.....Me!

Between fighting off germs and the excitement of Book Blogger Appreciation Week, I forgot all about scheduling future Scene of the Blog posts. Instead of hitting people up at the last second, I came up with the best and easiest solution: I'd feature myself. It even means that I get away with little to no introduction!


Just remember that you can click on any of the photos if you'd like to see them full size. Now let's get this show on the road!






At the end of February last year, Denis and I bought desks at IKEA and a couple of bookcases from OfficeMax and brought everything home. While Denis assembled all the furniture, I cleared out the bedroom we call our office and gave it a good clean. The photo above is the result. My desk is on the wall to the right of the big window, and Denis's is on the opposite wall behind me. There is a printer stand between our desks (which are both L-shaped) so we can both reach the printer. The stand also multi-tasks by holding all the mailing envelopes, tape, etc. that I use to get my books ready to send to other Paperback Swap members. The old green laundry basket is our recycle bin.



To the left of the big window is the closet and a tall bookcase that's already featured in one of my Bookself posts. As you can see, we also remodeled the closet, taking out the clothing rail and putting in heavy duty shelving. I then went to town with my label maker, and everything in there is pretty darned easy to find.

The low bookcases to the right of the closet hold mostly Dover clip art books, cookbooks, and reference books on Arizona, desert plants and some needlepoint pattern books.







Since all those photos were taken right after the completion of the remodel, I thought I'd take a photo of what my space looks like right now. Un-retouched. In all its messy glory. It shows my new (huge) monitor and that I'd just finished getting a PBS book ready for the mail. It shows a blogger who occasionally likes to snack on popcorn and diet root beer. On the left corner of the desk, it shows the two books that were next to be read and a cookbook which must mean I was writing a grocery list. Over on the right by the lamp, you can see my scanner. Every book cover on every review here at Kittling: Books has been scanned on that. In front of the scanner is the big desk calendar that I use to plot out all my blog posts.

The pile of books with my spiral bound book journal on top is the pile of books I need to write reviews for. The other stack of books are ones that were featured in this week's Mailbox Monday post.

I'm the type of person who normally hates to sit with her back to the room. I have personal experience of both a rapist and a stalker. Not being able to see who's closing in on my air space bothers me. I've somehow managed to overcome that with this room set-up, and the primary reason rests solely on the shoulders of the window I sit by.

As I sit here, I can look out the window and see the bright magenta blooms of bougainvillea. I can see the swimming pool and a lounge chair beckoning to me. And I can also see a birdbath that sprays water into the air courtesy of a small solar pump. Between that birdbath and the hummingbird feeder, I've been able to see quite an assortment of wildlife that loves my back garden as much as I do.

This room is a comfortable place in which to work. Denis and I can each sit at our computer, and even though we're not constantly talking to each other, it just feels good to be together in the same room. If we discover something that we want the other to see, it's easy to swivel around and take a look. If I need a thesaurus or any other type of book here in the room, I love to push off against the desk and roll across the floor to it. I've even been known to "Wheeeeeee!" as I sail across the room. (My inner child is quite happy and flat-out refuses to grow up!)

I hope you've enjoyed this look into my own blogging space. If you spy something in a photo and want to know what it is, ask me. I'll be more than happy to provide an answer.

In closing this particular feature, I thought I would show you some of the wildlife I've sat right here and watched through the window. Be sure to stop by next Wednesday when another blogger's creative space will be featured!