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Thu, Apr 14, 05 at 11:58
| My husband is out of town for the next 4 days.. I am tossing and organizing like it's nobody's business... feeding the kids take-out and actually having a good time doing it! I am on my third car load to Goodwill... it's a nice way to start Spring!
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| I wish I had that sort of energy right now. Good for you! |
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| I know that I have hit the obsseive curve.. I am organzing the library... even adding little book plates and dividers... I am sure that there is some sort of medication for this ;-) Maddiemom |
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| What are book plates? What sort of dividers do you use? I really need to organize all the bookcases we have. Each time we move, they just get disorganized even when I ask the packers to pack them shelf by shelf. So, they are disorganized again. You just might have given me the inspiration to do them. |
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| I just get the big, flat metal bookends, and put them in the MIDDLE of the bookshelf. Then I can slide the divider around. But if I take a book out, they don't sort of "domino" down the shelf. I value these *most* on the paperbcks shelf, oddly enough, and the cookbook shelf. Have fun, Maddiemom! I too can get a lot done when the distractions leave. But since I can't send my kids out in the yard to play, THEY are the big distraction. |
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| Book plates are the stickers that go in the front of the books saying who the book belongs to. There are many you can buy and then fill in but I created mine on the computer with a graphic I really liked and with our information...that way books have a better chance of getting back to us!. We have a personal library but it is a disaster!.. I spent a few hours last night doing just three shelves! I got the divider idea from the Pottery Barn organizing book. You use garden row markers.. I could not find wood ones like they used but I did find plastic ones.. ...so I painted them with black chalk board paint and they look quite nice. Then you slip the long spike end ( the part that would go in the dirt) between categories of books.. and then put the name of the category on the top part. I will try to take a picture and post it on my blog! Maddiemom |
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| Ok... I posted a photo on my blog www.kertay.net/blog |
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| Thank you for posting that. I really like the markers idea and might use them in our library. |
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| I was also thinking that the copper type that dangle might look quite charming! Maddiemom |
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VEry nice.
And I enjoyed reading your blog too. I am on strike. I keep hearing we can't buy anything or do anything until we do a house addition. (Think five of us in a 3 bedroom 1500 square foot house). So I'm doing nothing. G |
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