 today's video so it's gonna be a very different video than what I thought I was going to film because it was kind of full of last minute decisions so obviously I'm not sitting down in front of or next to a bookshelf and that is because hopefully we will be doing some modifying of my bookshelves um so I just one thing I want to point out before I get too in depth of this though and why I'm like not standing by my bookshelves is because it today is March 15 it is two days before St. Patty's Day it's been beautiful all week we've been going on walks and then all of a sudden here in Minnesota it decides to snow but it's snowing and this is not abnormal or strange it's just frustrating it's a gray day it's snowing it's just not my favorite thing because it's been so spring-like lately anyway so now I've gone on my little weather rant living here in Minnesota now um I'm gonna head over to the bookshelf and explain what's gonna happen here I like there's one other thing I do want to mention before I head over to the bookshelf so we're gonna I'm hoping to do a project with the bookshelf but we are gonna run to Minards today we're going there for a different reason but while we're there I'm gonna pick up some shelves for my bookshelf we're going there going there to give these guys a little home so we picked up some plants just yesterday while we were out on a walk someone had plants out so we've got some cabbage we've got I don't know my husband grabbed some time I think he did we've got something else that I don't know my husband knows everything about plants so I will ask him about it but we currently have them in just one of our bowls next to the window which is not their home obviously so we need to get them a place like we need we were thinking of using old cans and bottles and kind of doing an indoor burn thing but then my husband was like there's no way they're just gonna get sun because this is our one like big open window here like that's just the middle of the three windows that take up majority of the wall in this apartment and then that's the only good window we have in this apartment so he wants to create some hanging thing outside so that they can actually get some sun and air and whatnot of course now it's snowing which is really annoying but yeah so that's why we're going to Menards but while we're at Menards while we're at Menards I'm gonna get something for the bookshelf so as y'all know it's just full of books it's so stacked it's gotten to a point where like here on the bottom shelf I can't see the initial thing of books because I have so many books stacked in front and I don't like that and like here not all the books fit and it's just really sad and frustrating so quite a while ago we actually got this shelf from a friend of ours and it's a beautiful shelf except the only thing as you can see it only has one horizontal shelf otherwise it's just empty and so these are all my husband's books on it currently because he doesn't have near as many books as I do obviously but I really want to when we're at Menards get shelves to put on here so that we can organize his books better and then we can give more room and space for my shelf for my books and so that I can have books on both of these shelves and I can sort them a little bit better I have no idea how I'm going to sort them if I'm going to put like all of my historical fiction and contemporary and anything that's not fantasy on this shelf or if I'm going to move all of my fantasies to this shelf the other thing worth mentioning is that I want to make this shelf really nice because I'm thinking of filming here instead of over here because over here it's next to the dirty shoe rack and it's on the ground versus with this shelf I would be standing and have all of my books at the top of my husband's books at the bottom so I would stand I feel more comfortable standing um yeah so I've just got a lot of decisions to do so hopefully when my husband gets home from work we're gonna go to minards and fix up these shelves as well let's give a home to our new plants also yes that is our game shelf we definitely could use more shelves for our games as well but um for now this works and it will probably work until we move into a new apartment this fall so in case anyone is interested yes we are big into board games we're board game nerds and then I am a book starting in their garden shelf units for the bookshelf we're hoping they're gonna fit we also finally bought a tape measure so we can like if they don't fit then we can have actual measurements but hopefully they will fit or we'll find a way to make it fit so we're gonna go home and go try that now but oh the nerds are so much fun we did not own a measuring tape so we just estimated and um so we needed 25 and nine and a quarter and what we got was 24 by 10 so we went back to minards we got all the things we needed for our plant garden and then some so like that was nice when we went back to minards and my wonderful husband here who has worked in farming and construction uh was able to cut up a big board to be exactly what we wanted it to be so we're back from our second trip from minards and he is getting the shelves look it has hodge slash sped-up version of me putting books on the shelf and organizing it but i will do that once we put together the garden um because that's the other activity that my husband and I are going to do tonight and then when he's off doing other productive individual things i will be taking care of this beautiful beautiful beautiful bookshelf that we have built that i've asked so bitory pie that me and my friend made yesterday for hi day for hi day we made blueberry pie so we planted most things i'm taking a pie break while my husband builds the other little trough for the rest of the plants for the herbs here we go planting our garden but now a bookshelf to set up so i don't quite know exactly how i want to do it yet i might um put like all my fantasy and all my favorites on this shelf now else on this shelf we'll just see so now it's time to queue for them on top rearrange everything to make it look simpler but i really want to arrange them kind of by genre or by similarity or hi or by favorites so i'm kind of stuck in like now i have all the books here how do we want to sort them how do i want to put them together how do i want to categorize them so that's going to be this next process otherwise everything is all moved it's finally my word i can see all of my books so i think i have finished at least for tonight probably i don't think i'll be making any other tweaks but um now i'm just going to do a brief little overview of what the shelves are so on the top of the new shelf i have all of the disney twisted tails right next to my historical fiction section um because yeah it just it's working out that way for me i love the twisted tails but i really love my historical fiction so they're just going to share a shelf together until one of them outgrows the other then we go down to my main shelf and this has a lot of like my favorite fantasy dystopian kind of mythology esk uh my camera just went dark i'm so sorry there's nothing i can do about that and then we go down and it kind of has more of my favorite fantasies a lot of the trilogies that i have are here i finally have all my garth nicks together which i've never had before which is super exciting and then we go down and there's like a contemporary section and kind of just a leftover fantasy other books that i really enjoy or have yet to read have yet to read and then we go down here and it's actually still some of my husband's books down here with some of our photo albums it just works out that way plus we have the beanbag at the bottom of the shelf anyway so that's this shelf and then jumping over to the old shelf i have some of the series that i had facing the other way so like you only saw the selection book but now you see the entire series you see the maze runner that had hidden behind it and like all of my other just kind of leftover books this is the classics slash old section um so i've got like my jr or tolkien i've got my classics i've got like um yeah and then i also have twilight next week so i don't know what i'm gonna yeah that's just what it is and down here it's just kind of got the last of my books and a lot of my husband's main books so this is the old shelf but you see how like everything actually lines up together how it's supposed to except for his favorite venomous animals and like the photo album on the other shelf yeah this is so cool it makes me very happy all righty guys thank you so much for watching this video i had an absolute blast figuring out how my shelves are gonna be like i said i might tweak it a little bit um in the next couple of days but like this is probably what it's mostly going to be for quite a while probably until we move honestly because i don't think i'll be buying a lot more books until we move and that's just going to be a whole other process um but thank you so much for watching this video if you like to give it a thumbs up comment down below how you guys organize your bookshelves i prefer to do it kind of more so by genre and favorites rather than like color or author so let me know how you guys organize your shelves um subscribe i post every thursday sometimes i'll do the occasional bonus video on sunday so make sure that you subscribe and hit the bell so that you know exactly when i do upload and if there is a bonus video but until next week thursday i wish you all a happy reading