cleaning up the bookcases

I unpacked my books on November 4 and they have pretty much stayed as I initially loaded them, even though I unpacked in what can only charitably be called "order."  Finally there was a day when I did not have a huge project to do, and it was too warm outside to putter in the garden until late in the day, so I took the big vitrines in the craft room In Hand.

Before, vitrine the first:

Please note that the top two shelves are no longer completely full of books.  That is a measure of how many I've divested.

Vitrine the first, after:

Before, vitrine the second:

and vitrine the second, after:

The other two bookcases also received minor attention, but mostly this was about making better sense (visual and otherwise) of things. Like putting the big crystal specimens on a shelf with the books about crystals, and putting all the Sherlockiana in one place.

I finally cleaned the glass in the doors, too!