Quoth the Raven, Nevermore - Submitted!

 So I got my entry to the Creatin' Contest submitted.  I'm excited. I almost forgot you know?

But here is my entry and the pictures.

Quoth the raven, nevermore… The windows lent themselves perfectly to a book roombox.  My husband loves Edgar Allen Poe and the idea of the unreliable narrator which Poe pretty much perfected.  So I decided to create the ‘Chamber’ of the fellow in ‘The Raven’.  Reading a tome of forgotten lore and seeing a raven on the bust of Pallas.  The desk of course has a tome, papers, and lamp, along with some photographs.  The drapes match the poem, purple silk, a bit tattered, along with the dying embers of the fire. The plaster ceiling and dark wainscoting give the room (along with the fireplace and dark shelves) a gothic Victorian feel.

The floor is a herringbone of popsicle sticks cut and stained, while the fireplace is made of some corbels, wood, foam core board and matboard painted to look like stone.  The built-in shelves began as simple purchased bookshelves, embellished and stained to fill the fireplace wall.  And then I filled them with books, some purchased and some handmade.  On the shelves, desk, fireplace and filling the rest of the room are pieces inspired by Poe’s stories.  A gold bug, a message in a bottle, a box of teeth, a hot air balloon, a cask of amontillado, a tell tale heart, a black cat, the purloined letter and a magnifying glass.  And of course, the bust of Pallas Athena with a raven on top of her.

And because Poe was known to be something of a drinker (and broke a lot of the time) there are bottles of various alcoholic libations.  A couple of books replace the chaise’s broken leg with a bottle and glass of absinthe handily close.  Over the fireplace there are portraits of Poe and his beloved Lenore.

I feel good that I didn't forget to enter.  

Hope your Saturdays are going well.  I'm going to get back to the booknook!  I've got an idea for the candles that I think might work.  Paper inside the straws did not block the red glow sadly.