christmas work

After a wonderful, cold, chocolatey, white Christmas in Alberta, we got back home and went to work with a few days off we had at the end of December. Michelle did some work at school and I did some work at home for her school. She was looking for a certain shelf for her classroom, and I was able to make one cheaper than the one she liked in the catalogue, so we got the OK to go ahead, and I started cutting and gluing and nailing. Then there was the issue of delivery. I'll let this next picture do the talking:

One side of the shelf is a regular 3-story shelf; there is a divider behind it:

The other side has 25 compartments for plastic buckets (filled with center time activities, toys, games, etc.)

The top is a smooth surface for writing or storing stuff. I made it out of 1/2" plywood with a small oak edge on the ends, and lacquered the whole thing. It was very stinky for a few days!