Our bookshelves are so huge we have room for borrowed books (the only books David allows to be stacked),
The DVDs are no longer scattered all over the floor and that also makes me extremely happy!
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Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
25 August 2011
Books! DVDs! Shelving!
Well, we did a lot more making and a lot less shifting than I originally anticipating, but we have new shelves! Five 8 ft shelves for our books and three 5 ft shelves for our DVDs. Hoorah!
Our bookshelves are so huge we have room for borrowed books (the only books David allows to be stacked),
cute decorations,
and ALL of our Harry Potter and Tolkien books!!
The study (formerly known as Brant's room) is now so clean and organized I just want to hang out in there all the time!
The DVDs are no longer scattered all over the floor and that also makes me extremely happy!
Alright, enough pictures for now! I'm going to go read a book!
Our bookshelves are so huge we have room for borrowed books (the only books David allows to be stacked),
The DVDs are no longer scattered all over the floor and that also makes me extremely happy!
11 August 2011
Creativity At Its Best
First and foremost. Sorry for not wrapping up the UK trip, I'll try to do that in the next week. For pictures, please see the link at the bottom of the page.
Now, I'm feeling creative (sort of) and we are in desperate need of a bookshelf (and a DVD shelf for that matter). Our guest room/music room/study is a disaster and currently has someone living in it (sorry Brant). But Brant moves out on Saturday and we have got to get this room back in order. There is a vomiting closet, piles of books everywhere (not to mention two already full bookshelves), a drum kit, a desk, a filing cabinet, one last box of decorations, and a lonely (rather homeless) game table.
My idea is to purchase some wood at Home Depot that is somewhere between six and eight feet long. This wood would span the whole length of the designated bookshelf wall and would eliminate using two or three bookshelves like we've been doing. This would also mean we could put shelving all the way to the ceiling (meaning SEVEN rows of books almost EIGHT feet long. Think of all the books!!). I would like to spray paint the wood (probably black, but oh, the possibilities!).
The dilemma is that I have no clue what to use to prop up the shelves (for lack of a better word). I would like this mystery item (or items) to be about twelve inches tall (but they definitely must be the same). I would probably need three items per shelf, and if I have seven shelves this means potentially twenty-one items. (Dang, I'm already overwhelmed. Maybe I should scrap the idea. No! I want this to happen! Alright, crisis over.)
Here are some of my thoughts aout this item. I want to use something cute/creative but I need something sturdy enough to hold up eight feet of books! I don't need it to be the same thing, so the possibilities are endless. I would prefer to use something that I don't have to cut, because I don't trust myself to cut everything even/straight and I definitely want my bookshelf to be level!
I'm very excited about this but I need ideas! Please, please give me all the suggestions you can think of, I'm open!!
Now, I'm feeling creative (sort of) and we are in desperate need of a bookshelf (and a DVD shelf for that matter). Our guest room/music room/study is a disaster and currently has someone living in it (sorry Brant). But Brant moves out on Saturday and we have got to get this room back in order. There is a vomiting closet, piles of books everywhere (not to mention two already full bookshelves), a drum kit, a desk, a filing cabinet, one last box of decorations, and a lonely (rather homeless) game table.
My idea is to purchase some wood at Home Depot that is somewhere between six and eight feet long. This wood would span the whole length of the designated bookshelf wall and would eliminate using two or three bookshelves like we've been doing. This would also mean we could put shelving all the way to the ceiling (meaning SEVEN rows of books almost EIGHT feet long. Think of all the books!!). I would like to spray paint the wood (probably black, but oh, the possibilities!).
The dilemma is that I have no clue what to use to prop up the shelves (for lack of a better word). I would like this mystery item (or items) to be about twelve inches tall (but they definitely must be the same). I would probably need three items per shelf, and if I have seven shelves this means potentially twenty-one items. (Dang, I'm already overwhelmed. Maybe I should scrap the idea. No! I want this to happen! Alright, crisis over.)
Here are some of my thoughts aout this item. I want to use something cute/creative but I need something sturdy enough to hold up eight feet of books! I don't need it to be the same thing, so the possibilities are endless. I would prefer to use something that I don't have to cut, because I don't trust myself to cut everything even/straight and I definitely want my bookshelf to be level!
I'm very excited about this but I need ideas! Please, please give me all the suggestions you can think of, I'm open!!
25 March 2011
Suzanne Collins
David's Aunt introduced us to Suzanne Collins years ago when she gave us The Underland Chronicles to read. She has decided David will be the next great children's fiction author, so she makes it a point to read all the children's fiction she can get her hands on. She gave us these because she thought they were good and wanted him to read them.
The Underland Chronicles follow Gregor, a young New York City boy, as he discovers and explores the Underland. Apparently, (I just learned this reading the amazon page I linked!) she got this idea when she was thinking about Alice and Wonderland and how foreign that world must feel to kids who grew up in the city (Brilliant!).
Needless to say, we love these books, and they are definitely on the long list of books I'm excited to read my children. So when a friend of mine told me Suzanne Collins had written another series, I was very excited.
The Hunger Games Series is about a teenage girl named Katniss and her adventures in the post-apocalyptic United States. I don't want to tell you much more about them, because I've only read the first book so far (I'm currently sitting on my couch anxiously awaiting the arrival of the last two by UPS... They went out for delivery at 7:06 this morning.) and I don't want to read summaries of the other two and spoil them for myself!
The point? I recommend all 8 of these books for all of you to read! Although one series is for kids and the other for teens (I find that we read a lot of kids/teen books...) they are both appropriate and entertaining for all ages! Pick them up at your local library (Or buy them, they're worth it!) and read them as soon as you can!
The Underland Chronicles follow Gregor, a young New York City boy, as he discovers and explores the Underland. Apparently, (I just learned this reading the amazon page I linked!) she got this idea when she was thinking about Alice and Wonderland and how foreign that world must feel to kids who grew up in the city (Brilliant!).
Needless to say, we love these books, and they are definitely on the long list of books I'm excited to read my children. So when a friend of mine told me Suzanne Collins had written another series, I was very excited.
The Hunger Games Series is about a teenage girl named Katniss and her adventures in the post-apocalyptic United States. I don't want to tell you much more about them, because I've only read the first book so far (I'm currently sitting on my couch anxiously awaiting the arrival of the last two by UPS... They went out for delivery at 7:06 this morning.) and I don't want to read summaries of the other two and spoil them for myself!
The point? I recommend all 8 of these books for all of you to read! Although one series is for kids and the other for teens (I find that we read a lot of kids/teen books...) they are both appropriate and entertaining for all ages! Pick them up at your local library (Or buy them, they're worth it!) and read them as soon as you can!
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