Tackle It Tuesday - Bookshelves
This past week it’s been the library that’s been getting the attention, and boy does it need it. For TiT I’m featuring 3 of the bookshelves we’ve got in there.
Before:
It took a *lot* of purging and sorting - the “containerizing” is actually done by the bookshelves themselves so no containers.
After:
The top 4 shelves on the left actually have books that weren’t even there before; they were stuck in a few big crates that we brought from my parent’s workshop (where we were storing stuff before I got into my purging spree). I got rid of a LOT of books, papers, and folders.
Not only are all of the shelves organized by topic, I’ve started putting little stickers on the spines so that the kids can easily tell where the book goes when they’re putting it away. You can see those on the bottom row of books on the left. Those are all Science; the left side is Science 1 (people, animals, plants), and the right side is Science 2 (technology, weather, machines, space). All Science books get a green sticker, but the sticker either has a 1 or a 2 written on it to show which section it goes in. There’s also color-coded labels on the shelves themselves that say what each shelf is. I also moved the TV over to the left onto the media counter. (The computer is there too.)
Yay! It looks so much better.
What do you think? I wanna know! Please leave a comment :)
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jen said,
Wrote on April 17, 2007 @ 1:28 pm
Wow! When you do bookshelves, you really go all out! Labels and everything! You go girl!
Lisa said,
Wrote on April 17, 2007 @ 3:48 pm
Your book shelves look great!! It makes the room look so calm and peaceful too. That is the feeling I got after tackling my computer desk today. Great tackle! :o)
Frankie said,
Wrote on April 17, 2007 @ 4:00 pm
Wow, fantastic!
Marcia Francois said,
Wrote on April 17, 2007 @ 4:46 pm
Wow, Carrie - now that’s a gorgeous tackle. labels and everything - beautiful.
You wanna come do ours in South Africa?
Jenn said,
Wrote on April 17, 2007 @ 9:36 pm
Looks awesome - now have you read all those books? I wish, I had time to read, though that’s something that I dont get to do to much!
Gotta love having kids 
Karen said,
Wrote on April 18, 2007 @ 3:01 pm
I am impressed!
Carrie said,
Wrote on April 19, 2007 @ 9:56 pm
Thanks everyone!
I’ve read all of the books on the top two rows, but only leafed through most of the kids’ books.
Marcia I’d definitely organize and label bookshelves if it would earn me a trip to South Africa
:)