I've heard you are supposed to do "Spring Cleaning" but around here we always do it in January to spruce up the house during the dark winter months and make it feel new again after we take down the Christmas decorations.
Our major project for the weekend besides all the cleaning and painting, was this bookshelf for the kids. We got the idea from Jim Trelease's Read Aloud Handbook, which incidentally, is one of my favorite parenting/educational books of all time. Not only does it present all the research on reading and child brain development, it also includes a fabulous "treasury" of the best read-aloud book titles for your child at any age. The shelves are just plastic rain gutters with end caps, bracketed to the studs in the wall with gutter clips. A relatively easy and inexpensive project!
Take that winter blahs! Now, there will be reading and good books! Lots and lots of books!
2 comments:
Oh, how clever Lissa! I'd never think of using gutters for anything other than a gutter!
~Nona
I "spring clean" in January too! I love that shelving idea, def. going to suggest it to my hubby for the kids room. thanks for the link to the book as well, I'm always on the lookout for great parenting books. :)
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