VG Creations

I've told you how I made my book shelves now lets talk about organization.  Like I said in the last post I am a librarian.  I have a book scanner to scan my books into a catalog to track my books.  The catalog is organized so that I don't accidentally buy two copies of the same book.  Let's just say I am a bit obsessed with my books.  There is no way my books are organized by color or size.  Ok mine are sorta by size but for a reason. One of the problems I was running into was when I would go to put away the new books it would take time to figure out where the new ones would go.  Books would get shelved out of order because there was just one small book with that authors in Q and I missed it. I looked at different options.  I saw something that clicked in my brain to make tabs for each letter/number to separate my books.   I picked up letters and numbers  similar to these and jumbo wood tabs  like this.  I painted the jumbo tabs with black craft paint.  I wanted them to be

Not all of my craft projects are small. In my professional life I am a librarian.  I love all things books.  Book theme everything.  I have a massive book collection between audio, digital, and physical books.  Books are what I buy besides my crafting supplies.  Book cases are expensive particularly when you need 8 not standard size ones.  Yes that is just for me. My living space has been taken over by book cases and I am good with that.   This is just one of them.  It fits my hardcover and trade paperback books.   Here it is full of books.  I have a second bookcase that is also the same dimensions.  I just took 1 x 8 x 6 boards painted them the color I wanted.  To prevent paint transfer to my pretty books I also use polyurethane to seal in the paint.  I went with a less shiny polyurethane because I'm not a fan of shiny but if you are interested in it go for it.  Once they were all dried I took 2 inch screws and screwed in the boards.  The 2 inch screws to help support the books. 

This last week as been very busy.  We're coming up to the holiday and it is now the growing season in the Midwest which means canning.  Farmer's market on Saturday to get a whole host of fresh goodies to consume.  Later in the season I'll share some of them plus the fun can have labeling all of the goodies. I had participated in an event for an author and made two tumblers with one more to go.  The people wanted two very different Tumblers but with a quotes from the books.  Both turned out amazing and hope they like them. I am also experimenting with tattoo paper to make a tumbler.  Now to cut them out and get them on the tumbler.  Fingers crossed it will turn out ok.   I've been playing with more molds.  Here's my newest one.  I'm not sure about how it turned out.  Let me know what you think.