Oh Krista what a magnificent room! It really is a place of Peace, Silence and Joy in other words it’s YOU!❤️ I do hope you will be always surrounded by books which can bring you Love ❤️ , Enjoyment 😊Laughter 😂and Tears 😢. Lovest ❤️😘❤️😘
I won't say how long it took me to clean out the clutter! haha. It is a very peaceful room...most of the time. But soon I'll be bringing all my Christmas stuff down from the attic and it will get chaotic once again. oh well.
I love your library! Alas, I converted 90% of my library into a digital format when I sold my 3-BR house ten years ago. Hopefully, my old books are being enjoyed by new readers.
This is quite a library you have. I have 3 guest rooms in my new old house. I recently purchased some revolving book towers and snapped them together, 1 for each guest room. I've sorted my books by interests based on who most likely will stay in the guest room. So books I think my little sister might like go in the pink room, books I think my older sister (who let me mooch off her last summer during my move) go in the teal room, and books with a more masculine interest go in the master room where if I ever have male guests or couples go in the large master room with the faux fireplace. I don't book shelves in my bedroom, just a small night stand to hold the currently reading book(s). Downstairs in the living room I have a large tall book shelf that has my James clavell series, and other random travel books and the pair of 4' book shelves in my library/office currently holds a mish mash of office junk that will be purged as my book collection grows. The library also came with a built in bookshelf with a glass door and some random old books, in that book shelf, I've added my Bible collection and cookbooks I got from my mother's estate.
That makes a lot of sense for picture books. I love when I take my little dude to a library that has a bunch of books sorted by category. Makes it easier to find something I think he will like.
Thank you for sharing your library. It is indeed affirmation as I organize like you, authors together . Although I don’t have my general fiction books alphabetized as my space doesn’t allow for it. I’m also very happy for you with your new shelves.
Thanks so much Kami. These shelves were a long time coming, but I am so in love with them now! And so thankful to have the space to have a library room.
I love this room! It is so cozy and comfy. If I was a guest in this room I'd be up all night reading. Just think of sleeping in a room with all that knowledge. Thanks for the tour.
I would love that many middle grade books on my shelves 😄. I love middle grade books so much! Beautiful art on your walls too. I love Ted Dekker too, I read so many when I was younger. I didn't know you traveled so much! I am excited because in the next few years I will be starting to travel to wherever God wants me. 😊
I love that! Do you have idea of where you'll go first? I do love my middle grade. I'm thankful for library sales and thrift stores for most of my books. I do have a ton.
@@BooksAndJams I know I'll still have a youtube channel that is going to focus on travel. I would love to go to England, Puerto Rico and Europe for some of my first stops.
You did a great job with your bookshelves. I would organize mine the same way. I know rainbow shelves look pretty but they're not very practical. It would be so hard to find anything. And it would drive me nuts to not have books by the same author together or break up series books. It is such a cozy, lovely room. I would love spending time curled up with a good book in that room! Enjoy the lovely space you've created!
Thanks, Ginger. I'm glad you enjoyed watching. Yeah, the authors not being together and breaking up series is absolutely my reason for not doing rainbow. It does look pretty though.
Thank you so much for doing this video!!! Love seeing others book collections 🤓 I also have a small room with shelves but not quite as many as you have. I’ve begun double stacking on a few shelves. You can never have enough space 📚
Crazy to me that some of my shelves, well really just middle grade, are double stacked. I love a lot of books, but that does seem excessive! haha. Eventually I'll get one more white one for my middle grade shelf too and then hopefully I can avoid that double stacking.
Great job getting your library organized and shelved so beautifully!! I love it!! I also love all of your trinkets, too. It's such a fun and cozy place to enjoy reading.
This was so fun!! Ahhhh!! My absolute favorite is your middle grade shelf - I would pay good money to just transfer that shelf right into my own house 😆. And I love the rainbow BOTM and CS Lewis areas!
Beautiful! How nice you have a room! I have many bookshelves in various rooms of the house. My books are organized by fiction and nonfiction- both alphabetical by author.
Nicely done! What a library! I think you know that I do not have many fiction books in my home; I would be overwhelmed to be surrounded with so many books that I haven't read yet/want to read/cannot imagine when I will ever have the time to read. I do have a collection of non fiction/reference books though.
Enjoyed the tour and learning a bit about your trabels and what you collect! Sad to learn you lost a sister and neice (think I remember you mentioning the sister passing before). I lost my 30 year old nepjew during lockdown (not from covid) and so hard to lose young people. Awesome Newberry collection! Oh and I have the read folded pages book...so cool. You should dedicate one sprint to folding each time you host and one will be done in no time! You can listen to audio while you do it! :)
I love that idea for the folding books. I am going to do that before the end of the year. I'll start with the Joy one and it can be a Christmas decoration.
My shelves are mostly alphabetical, but I do have a few shelves with themes such as BOTM, a dog shelf, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Atlanta Braves shelf.
Beautiful Krista! Alot of hard work getting that all setup, you should be very proud of yourself! It looks so cozy and peaceful - giving me library goals. 🥰
What a beautiful library! 💕love your shelf decorations too and I think we all have at least one mug full of bookmarks lol 😂 the collection of boxes is very cool.
Krista, I really enjoyed your tour. I see many wonderful books on your shelves! Your crocheting looks lovely. Would like to get a closer look. LOL Seeing your NF Christian books made me wonder if you have any plans to do a group read on one of those titles in the future? I enjoyed it so much when you did them in the past.
I love it, or them! Wish I had more room to have more shelves. In almost finished setting up. I am still working on "how", but in general I have a section for historical fiction, a section pertaining to Auschwitz, both fiction and non fiction. My memoirs/biographies/true events are together. A section of true crimes. A fantasy shelf, I was surprised how many of those I had, lol. BOTM books are together, and the rest are just on shelves because I was getting anxious to get finished! Hardbacks are pushed back with paperbacks in front. Those are ones I want to read, but not a top priority and are on an upper shelf. I did the same with a lower shelf, but ones I have a desire to read, although a major mood reader. And during all that I pulled books off that I will be selling and books that I will be using for Litte Free Library swaps, oh yeah, and books I'm giving my daughter. In certain areas, I did keep authors of books together like Susan Meissner... I do have a cart that were suppose to be read this year, with certain goals, but it's been a crazy year, especially starting with that hip surgery, so that flopped. Once I get next years goals I'm sure things will change, lol. I'm si happy your happy with your shelves. I had reached a point when I had the previous shelves and there was no order, but I did know what was where, lol. Ok I've had a beyond stressful morning and you definitely lightened my mood. Have a great day!
I had thought about sorting by genre, but historical would be a huge chunk. I just decided to keep fiction all together and do author's last name. I can't wait til your room is all done. Send pics for sure!
I love it! My only question is how do you slot in new books? Do they all have to move if you purchase a pile of books and the author’s last name begins with G? (For example)… just curious about that side of it because we all haul so many books each month. Such a lot of work went into this though Krista but at the same time I can imagine it was a joy to do!
Oh man. That is the struggle! I do already have books stacked on top of books. My recommendations cart will get filled up later in December and that will help some. I just need to chill on getting new books! But we both know that's not really going to happen. haha.
Do you have other shelves of your read books that you wanted to keep? I pretty much don't keep anything 😛 I have mine done by genre but it is just a little cube shelf w/ 4 cubbies. So I can see all of them at one time. If I had shelves full I would totally alphabetize as well! Your shelves look great!!
This room is mainly unread books. I don't keep most books that I've read, but I do have a few shelves out in my living room that have read books one them.
You have a lovely space. I have my fiction books by author's last name; easier for me to find them. My bio/autobio books by person's last name. My non-fiction loosely by dewey decimal category so categories are together. I'm also a big sci-fi/fantasy reader so I have my Star Trek and Star Wars on their own bookcases.
@@BooksAndJams I currently have several hundred non-fiction books so I figured it would be worth a little time to organize them. I just look up the book theme on a dewey chart and loosely classify them. It keeps chaos from taking over my library. lol
I love that you read both Christian fiction and no. Christian fiction because so many people act as though you have to read one or the other that you can’t read both.
Yeah. I do read a bit of almost everything! I have had seasons where all I read is Christian fiction and it was good for the time, but now it's more of a mixture.
Where do you place the book if it is a BOTM but is an author you own multiple books? I can never decide where to place mine, with the BOTM books or the author books.
I keep all my read BOTM together in the other room and unread together in this room. I only keep author stacks together if I have a ton from that author. I have quite a few authors where I have one in my tbr room and another out on my read shelves in my living room.
Hi Krista!
Your library with the new shelves looks wonderful! Thank you for sharing your organized system with us!
Thanks, Lori. I am really enjoying this room for sure!
Oh Krista what a magnificent room! It really is a place of Peace, Silence and Joy in other words it’s YOU!❤️ I do hope you will be always surrounded by books which can bring you Love ❤️ , Enjoyment 😊Laughter 😂and Tears 😢. Lovest ❤️😘❤️😘
I won't say how long it took me to clean out the clutter! haha. It is a very peaceful room...most of the time. But soon I'll be bringing all my Christmas stuff down from the attic and it will get chaotic once again. oh well.
Krista, what an incredible library!!! Thank you for showing is around.
Thanks so much, Shelly! It's a happy room for sure.
So jealous of your entire room dedicated to your book collection! Looks great, Krista!
I am so incredibly thankful that I have the space in this house. It's been a dream come true to set up a library!
How fun! Your shelves look lovely and I love the room as a reading space. Love the idea of collecting little boxes and jars from countries.
I also collect magnets from places I visit, but those are all on the fridge. I like having something small to look for when I go to new places.
@@BooksAndJams Love that!
I love your library! Alas, I converted 90% of my library into a digital format when I sold my 3-BR house ten years ago. Hopefully, my old books are being enjoyed by new readers.
I am very thankful to have the space right now, but I know that might not always be the case. So I'm enjoying it while I can.
This is quite a library you have.
I have 3 guest rooms in my new old house. I recently purchased some revolving book towers and snapped them together, 1 for each guest room. I've sorted my books by interests based on who most likely will stay in the guest room. So books I think my little sister might like go in the pink room, books I think my older sister (who let me mooch off her last summer during my move) go in the teal room, and books with a more masculine interest go in the master room where if I ever have male guests or couples go in the large master room with the faux fireplace.
I don't book shelves in my bedroom, just a small night stand to hold the currently reading book(s). Downstairs in the living room I have a large tall book shelf that has my James clavell series, and other random travel books and the pair of 4' book shelves in my library/office currently holds a mish mash of office junk that will be purged as my book collection grows. The library also came with a built in bookshelf with a glass door and some random old books, in that book shelf, I've added my Bible collection and cookbooks I got from my mother's estate.
I have seen those rotating shelves. Glad they are working for your space. And I like how you curated what to put on each one. That's awesome.
Your shelves look great! I love seeing other peoples bookshelves! Mine are organized by theme or topic. Mine are mostly picture books.
That makes a lot of sense for picture books. I love when I take my little dude to a library that has a bunch of books sorted by category. Makes it easier to find something I think he will like.
What a dream room! I would never want to leave.
I barely leave it when I'm home!
Thank you for sharing your library. It is indeed affirmation as I organize like you, authors together . Although I don’t have my general fiction books alphabetized as my space doesn’t allow for it.
I’m also very happy for you with your new shelves.
Thanks so much Kami. These shelves were a long time coming, but I am so in love with them now! And so thankful to have the space to have a library room.
Your library room is amazing! Thank you so much for showing your beautifully organized shelves!
Thank you, Pamela. I am such a fan of this room now.
I love this room! It is so cozy and comfy. If I was a guest in this room I'd be up all night reading. Just think of sleeping in a room with all that knowledge. Thanks for the tour.
I would love to replace my futon with more comfy sleeping option, but for now it works.
FINALLY!!! 😁 Its absolutely beautiful. *chefs kiss
Haha. Thanks Brandy.
Wowzer! You really do have a library!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I am so thankful! It's a dream come true! haha
I would love that many middle grade books on my shelves 😄. I love middle grade books so much! Beautiful art on your walls too. I love Ted Dekker too, I read so many when I was younger. I didn't know you traveled so much! I am excited because in the next few years I will be starting to travel to wherever God wants me. 😊
I love that! Do you have idea of where you'll go first? I do love my middle grade. I'm thankful for library sales and thrift stores for most of my books. I do have a ton.
@@BooksAndJams I know I'll still have a youtube channel that is going to focus on travel. I would love to go to England, Puerto Rico and Europe for some of my first stops.
I love your cozy library room. Thank you for showing
Thanks for watching, Jessica.
Boy, you’ve been busy!!! You did such a great job on your bookcases. I saw so many books I wanted to read!!!
Thank you, Trudy!
Love it! Feels like a bookstore 📚:) your NEWBERY shelf is amazing!
I'm so thrilled about my Newbery shelf. Now I need to get reading them! haha.
I love your bookshelves! I have alot of the books and taste. I also have yarn and puzzles in my library. Thank you for sharing. 📚
Thanks, Tracy.
I’m happy for you! It looks great. Enjoy the updated space! 🙂
Thanks so much Margaret. It is a room that brings me a lot of joy. I'm very thankful.
Beautiful! Nice mix of books and personal keepsakes.
Glad you enjoyed it. Thank you for watching.
I Love LOVE your Library room, such a wonderful place ! Thank you for letting us see your book collection & decorations
Glad you enjoyed seeing my space! I am so so thankful to have the room in this house to do it!
You did a great job with your bookshelves. I would organize mine the same way. I know rainbow shelves look pretty but they're not very practical. It would be so hard to find anything. And it would drive me nuts to not have books by the same author together or break up series books.
It is such a cozy, lovely room. I would love spending time curled up with a good book in that room! Enjoy the lovely space you've created!
Thanks, Ginger. I'm glad you enjoyed watching. Yeah, the authors not being together and breaking up series is absolutely my reason for not doing rainbow. It does look pretty though.
So proud for you! You have worked so hard for everything in that room. It looks great!!
Thanks so much Kami. It makes me so happy to see it done!
Thank you so much for doing this video!!! Love seeing others book collections 🤓 I also have a small room with shelves but not quite as many as you have. I’ve begun double stacking on a few shelves. You can never have enough space 📚
Crazy to me that some of my shelves, well really just middle grade, are double stacked. I love a lot of books, but that does seem excessive! haha. Eventually I'll get one more white one for my middle grade shelf too and then hopefully I can avoid that double stacking.
Great Holiday season is comming soon..MUSIC ON THE WAY.. YOU DID A GREAT JOB.. God Bless and stay safe and Happy..
I will have music in my upcoming weekend vlog. :)
Great job getting your library organized and shelved so beautifully!! I love it!! I also love all of your trinkets, too. It's such a fun and cozy place to enjoy reading.
Thanks, Mitzi! I love how this room has come together. It's where I hang out all the time now!
Cozy! Lovely! Now im more envious of you lol 😍 I alphabetize by author.
No envy! I am so thankful that I have the space right now. I know it might not always be the case.
What a beautiful and peaceful space, Krista! Your special pieces from your travels are so lovely. I just love it🤗
Thanks, Leah. I love having a little collection of boxes. They don't take up much space in my luggage so they're a fun thing to collect.
What a cozy space. I love it!
Yes! I love the cozy vibes in here. Books are an easy way to make a room cozy!
Lovely library room..my library is in my bedroom.
Nice. I am very thankful to have the space to do something like this.
What a beautiful room Krista, thanks for the tour. You are amazing. God Bless. Sylvia, Ottawa Canada.
Thank you, Sylvia. I appreciate you.
This was so fun!! Ahhhh!! My absolute favorite is your middle grade shelf - I would pay good money to just transfer that shelf right into my own house 😆. And I love the rainbow BOTM and CS Lewis areas!
I like those rainbow areas too. Just adds a little extra! haha.
Beautiful! How nice you have a room! I have many bookshelves in various rooms of the house. My books are organized by fiction and nonfiction- both alphabetical by author.
I have bookshelves in other rooms too. Mostly filled with read books. I'm thankful to have the space for now.
I had to keep pausing to add to my Pango/Amazon wishlist. ;) Beautiful setup.
I love that! Always happy to add to all the lists! haha
Such a cozy set up! Love it!
Thanks, Chelsea. This room does make me really happy!
Your library is beautiful!!!
Thanks, Lana.
Love your seasonal signs
Thanks!
Nicely done! What a library! I think you know that I do not have many fiction books in my home; I would be overwhelmed to be surrounded with so many books that I haven't read yet/want to read/cannot imagine when I will ever have the time to read. I do have a collection of non fiction/reference books though.
Thanks so much. I know some people do feel like you and don't like all the unread books. I don't feel that same stress. It brings me a lot of joy.
Enjoyed the tour and learning a bit about your trabels and what you collect! Sad to learn you lost a sister and neice (think I remember you mentioning the sister passing before). I lost my 30 year old nepjew during lockdown (not from covid) and so hard to lose young people. Awesome Newberry collection! Oh and I have the read folded pages book...so cool. You should dedicate one sprint to folding each time you host and one will be done in no time! You can listen to audio while you do it! :)
I love that idea for the folding books. I am going to do that before the end of the year. I'll start with the Joy one and it can be a Christmas decoration.
Looks great and cozy too.
Yes, Bobbe. I'm here for all the cozy vibes.
My shelves are mostly alphabetical, but I do have a few shelves with themes such as BOTM, a dog shelf, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Atlanta Braves shelf.
It's fun to have a few highlight shelves. I love hearing how people set up their bookshelves.
Beautiful Krista! Alot of hard work getting that all setup, you should be very proud of yourself! It looks so cozy and peaceful - giving me library goals. 🥰
Thanks so much. It is such a blessing to have the space to even have a library right now.
You did such a great job on it! It looks inviting and it is filled with books- I call that a win!
Thank you Emily. I'm loving it!
I used to say Ted Dekker was my favorite after I read the Red Series. I need to do a re-read! It's been over a decade!
It has been a really long time for me too. I would love to do a reread one of these days.
So much goodness!!
Thank you for watching.
Good collection of Books Krista
Thanks, Jenny.
Thanks for sharing. I also sort my book alphabetical by author, so much easier to find a specific book.
Yes! And because I constantly am pulling books for videos it makes sense to be able to find them quickly and put them away easily!
What a beautiful library! 💕love your shelf decorations too and I think we all have at least one mug full of bookmarks lol 😂 the collection of boxes is very cool.
Thanks Sandy. Gotta love my boxes. I am always running out. It's a good problem to have though!
Krista, I really enjoyed your tour. I see many wonderful books on your shelves! Your crocheting looks lovely. Would like to get a closer look. LOL Seeing your NF Christian books made me wonder if you have any plans to do a group read on one of those titles in the future? I enjoyed it so much when you did them in the past.
I was planning on doing one this month, but then totally forgot about it. I will do another one in the winter sometime.
I love your library!
Thanks, Angie. Me too!
All looks wonderful!!
Thanks for watching, Debbie.
Very nice!
Thanks!
Looks great!
Thanks, Jayne.
Well done!!!! ❤
Thanks, Cheryl! I love how it all came together.
@@BooksAndJams so cozy! Enjoy! ❤️❤️
I love it, or them! Wish I had more room to have more shelves. In almost finished setting up. I am still working on "how", but in general I have a section for historical fiction, a section pertaining to Auschwitz, both fiction and non fiction. My memoirs/biographies/true events are together. A section of true crimes. A fantasy shelf, I was surprised how many of those I had, lol. BOTM books are together, and the rest are just on shelves because I was getting anxious to get finished! Hardbacks are pushed back with paperbacks in front. Those are ones I want to read, but not a top priority and are on an upper shelf. I did the same with a lower shelf, but ones I have a desire to read, although a major mood reader. And during all that I pulled books off that I will be selling and books that I will be using for Litte Free Library swaps, oh yeah, and books I'm giving my daughter. In certain areas, I did keep authors of books together like Susan Meissner... I do have a cart that were suppose to be read this year, with certain goals, but it's been a crazy year, especially starting with that hip surgery, so that flopped. Once I get next years goals I'm sure things will change, lol. I'm si happy your happy with your shelves. I had reached a point when I had the previous shelves and there was no order, but I did know what was where, lol. Ok I've had a beyond stressful morning and you definitely lightened my mood. Have a great day!
I had thought about sorting by genre, but historical would be a huge chunk. I just decided to keep fiction all together and do author's last name. I can't wait til your room is all done. Send pics for sure!
I love it! My only question is how do you slot in new books? Do they all have to move if you purchase a pile of books and the author’s last name begins with G? (For example)… just curious about that side of it because we all haul so many books each month. Such a lot of work went into this though Krista but at the same time I can imagine it was a joy to do!
Oh man. That is the struggle! I do already have books stacked on top of books. My recommendations cart will get filled up later in December and that will help some. I just need to chill on getting new books! But we both know that's not really going to happen. haha.
Do you have other shelves of your read books that you wanted to keep? I pretty much don't keep anything 😛 I have mine done by genre but it is just a little cube shelf w/ 4 cubbies. So I can see all of them at one time. If I had shelves full I would totally alphabetize as well! Your shelves look great!!
Yes, I have three shelve out in my living room that have more books on them! haha.
Great room! How do you keep track of which ones you’ve read?
This room is mainly unread books. I don't keep most books that I've read, but I do have a few shelves out in my living room that have read books one them.
You have a lovely space. I have my fiction books by author's last name; easier for me to find them. My bio/autobio books by person's last name. My non-fiction loosely by dewey decimal category so categories are together. I'm also a big sci-fi/fantasy reader so I have my Star Trek and Star Wars on their own bookcases.
I like the idea of dewey decimal for nonfiction, but I don't have enough books or enough knowledge to do that. haha.
@@BooksAndJams I currently have several hundred non-fiction books so I figured it would be worth a little time to organize them. I just look up the book theme on a dewey chart and loosely classify them. It keeps chaos from taking over my library. lol
I love that you read both Christian fiction and no. Christian fiction because so many people act as though you have to read one or the other that you can’t read both.
Yeah. I do read a bit of almost everything! I have had seasons where all I read is Christian fiction and it was good for the time, but now it's more of a mixture.
Are you planning to read any native American heritage books during November?
Yes. I will be reading Indian Horse soon.
Where do you place the book if it is a BOTM but is an author you own multiple books? I can never decide where to place mine, with the BOTM books or the author books.
I keep all my read BOTM together in the other room and unread together in this room. I only keep author stacks together if I have a ton from that author. I have quite a few authors where I have one in my tbr room and another out on my read shelves in my living room.
Love your library!!!
Thank you so much!