I found this metal bench at a community yard sale. Paid $20 for it and talked my friend Josh Jacobs into working his magic with his artwork. I wanted it to have the same theme as my garage door that he did a couple of years ago. This is what he came up with and it is AWESOME!

This bench is going to be used as part of a galactic story time, mini library that will be hosted by different places in my neighborhood. I have a dozen other mini libraries scattered across our community. People seem to love them and our local “U.P. Bookmobile” (Missy Derby) supplies the books and makes sure they stay full. I do the construction and maintenance of the libraries.

This particular library comes with a solar lamp that Patricia Davis made and then Josh painted it to look like the sun.

Put these three together and it becomes a portal to a reading adventure!