VG Creations

My living room is full of books.  I've now branched out in decorating the room with book themed crafts.  It was a happy accident.  Some of them are super easy.  While others took a little bit more time and supplies. First up is letters.  I bought these paper mache  letters for BOOKS (the s is missing right now).  All I had to do with these letters was paint them.  I painted all of the letters with black craft paint.  Once it dried I took color changing  top coat paint and did a final coat over the black.  Once it had dried and I got all the spots I missed the project was done and I just had to find a home for it. I love how these turned out and they look amazing ontop if my books. I might have to come up with some other words to do in the different shimmer paint.

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 jumb...