painting, organizing, and notebooking
Before the weather became sunny and warm, I started working on the sewing room/office. The really inexpensive wood-look bookcases are being painted ~ green ~ and the cardboard backs are being replaced with a sheet of beaded board plywood. The beaded board looks much better, although it's impossible to see in the photo...
Unloading the bookcase has forced me to weed out un-needed stuff and to get organized. A method I have found, that really works for me, is to keep all the information I love to collect in binders...knitting, project ideas, decorating, bookkeeping, homemaking, tutorials, sewing, etc. So easy to add or remove pages as needed! I decorated the binders with scrapbooking paper and made some P-touch labels...
If you are interested in notebooking, there's a great article here, by Cindy Rushton, that got me started.
Before the weather became sunny and warm, I started working on the sewing room/office. The really inexpensive wood-look bookcases are being painted ~ green ~ and the cardboard backs are being replaced with a sheet of beaded board plywood. The beaded board looks much better, although it's impossible to see in the photo...
Unloading the bookcase has forced me to weed out un-needed stuff and to get organized. A method I have found, that really works for me, is to keep all the information I love to collect in binders...knitting, project ideas, decorating, bookkeeping, homemaking, tutorials, sewing, etc. So easy to add or remove pages as needed! I decorated the binders with scrapbooking paper and made some P-touch labels...
If you are interested in notebooking, there's a great article here, by Cindy Rushton, that got me started.
LOVE the notebooking thing!! Thanks for the link!!! I am totally checking that out! Thankyou! :)
ReplyDeleteThe notebooks are sooo cute! I love them.Your book shelf also looks great.
ReplyDeleteThat's beautiful!
ReplyDeleteI just loved Cindy's self published books in our first years of homeschooling.
I had two or three, which I passed down to my daughter when she started homeschooling her oldest.
Yours is a work of art.
Deb, everything looks so fresh and neat. I love your notebooks and I'm going to pop over and read the article you mentioned. Thanks for the link. Linda
ReplyDeleteLove the notebooking idea.....I had started a house ideas one (as we are building a new home) but didn't even think to branch out with other ideas in other areas. That was also a great idea with scrapbooking paper on the spine of the clear binders.
ReplyDeleteThe binder idea is a much more attractive alternative to file cabinets. I like the open, spiced up look!
ReplyDeleteOh, that looks great. Will you come and organize my office now? LOL
ReplyDeleteI just got a new desk/work station so I'm motivated to clear out the clutter.
Kimberly :)
Wow it looks really great! It's so pretty and organized! I use notebooks for a few things and they are a good way to keep things organized.
ReplyDeleteManuela
This is a beautiful blog! I'll be listing it as a favorite if that's ok.
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Janera
www.mygardenhat.blogspot.com
I LOVE the color "green" you painted your bookshelves!...and the bead board is a great touch! I wish I could say my bookshelves were as organized & lovely as your's are!...Heidi :)
ReplyDeleteThat bookcase is really beautiful. I love the color and how everything is all laid out so neatly. I'm going to check out that article. I keep saying I'm making notebooks, and have yet to do it. I get so overwhelmed, which I know is silly. Thanks for sharing some motivation with me.
ReplyDeleteYour binders looks so pretty Deb! I love binders for organizing. I'm going to check out the article you mentioned too.
ReplyDeleteYou did a lovely job painting the bookcases. I used a similar green in my baby girl's bedroom, and it's so restful. It's amazing what a difference a coat of paint makes.
I love what you did to the binders. Gave me an idea of what to do with all of mine. Thanks so much.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
I love notebooks - I could get obessesive about notebooks - I love the way you have done yours - now where did I put those 40 3-ring binders when I was going to do this LAST time!!!!
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Donna
I have got to get to organizing. I brought home a book shelf that I am going to paint. I can't wait to get started on it. Thanks for the motivation to get started. I love the notebook idea.
ReplyDeleteI do the notebook thing, too. You're right, it makes things so much easier. Thank you for sharing the link. I'll pop over there, too.
ReplyDeleteI love the idea for decorating the spines for the notebooks. I may just have to try that.
ReplyDeleteThe shelves look great. I had wondered if they would take paint.
God bless!
Laura
Thanks for the link, I'm going to check this out.......it looks like fun and I sure need some organisation in my craft room.
ReplyDeleteoh, I love the idea of the beadboard backing! Great idea! I have that same Target bookshelf for our homeschool books and hate those cardboard backs! We are really into notebooking, too. Actually, I just rediscovered the site notebookingpages.com and downloaded a ton of templates to use in our notebooks. My kids are young (5 & 7) and they really like the already printed pretty pages. They've never particularly been afraid of a blank page, but it does feel like they are more "special". She's really got some great templates!
ReplyDeleteGreat Idea!
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