The Bookstore?

I didn't get much done on my street scene this week due to business travel.  But I still have lots to show you on what I'd completed before.  One of the buildings in my street scene will be a bookstore...I think.  I had thoughts of a shop with old books, old documents, old maps, old scrolls but I can't seem to find a name for this type of shop.

I used a Houseworks three section unfinished bookcase I've had in my stash for some time now.  I stained it and have started to fill it with books.  I used a kit to make many books.  I had purchased the book kit in 1992, yes 1992, while on a business trip to North Carolina.  I visited the Gingerbread House of Miniatures and found a great kit, and I guess I was saving it just for this project. 

 

 

 

While in Europe last year I collected several copies of Miniaturas magazine, and one of the magazines had a page of book cover printies which I am also using to make books for this case. 

For the documents I printed copies of old maps and documents from the internet and reduced them down to scale.  I wanted them to look old so I used a scrapbooking product called Distressed Ink.  It was great for giving these maps an age patina.

 

I even aged a pile of blank pages that I could use underneath the stacks of printed documents.  Don't you like the effect this ink gives all the papers?

 

I would love some suggestions from all of my readers for a name for the store.  I have to finish the interior of this shop before I can finish the outside portion.

 

Until the next time......

 

Wanda