Cute and plausible

There's a great tutorial over at A Beautiful Mess about how to build your own quotation mark bookends. I cannot with organizing books by color—I don't care if it looks cool, what if different books in a series end up far apart?—but those bookends are awesome, and while I find that every time I try a craft project it ends up costing about 50% more than I think it will, I'm pretty sure you'd end up having to take out a second mortgage if you tried to buy something similar at Anthropologie.

Image detail credit: A Beautiful Mess