Category: General

Organisation

I was going thru & tidying up my blogs in my blog reader (I have over 2000 posts saved!) and I came across a post linking to this organising challenge. Since hubby & I have now decided that we’ll share a table in the office (he’ll use it for build RPG miniatures & I’ll use it for scrapping) I need to take stock of what I have & organise it a bit better.

So over the next few weeks I’ll work through each of the 29 challenges and post how I’m going here. Anyone want to work thru the challenges with me?

The first challenge was to do an audit of our current scrapping space, listing what works and what doesn’t work. Hmm well I’m starting afresh so I’m really not sure how I should approach this one.

I know I like to have things where I can see them (out of mind, out of site – if I can’t see it I usually forget I have it lol) and when I’m scrapping I like to have tools and supplies within easy reach. I need to have my paper sorted. I need to have better storage options for EVERYTHING!

Not having much room (basically a tote, a clip it up and the top of my computer desk at the moment) means I’ll need to be super organised and have containers for everything. Hopefully these challenges will help me obtain my goal of having an organised space.

The second challenge was to think of our dream scrap room.

My list of what I’d like:

  • storage for my CS & papers. I’m thinking something I can sit on top of my computer desk. Something where I can organise my papers, I’m thinking I’ll go back to sorting them by theme, and take out just what I need for each project (so when I’m working on, say, baby pages I just grab my baby papers). Same with CS, sorted by colour.
  • Something I can keep on my workspace (that won’t take up a heap of room) so I can keep stuff I use heaps within reach. Things I use often are pens, craft knife…
  • Someway of having my Slice & related bit close by
  • Having my Clip It Up better organised
  • Organise all my embellishments and have them stored in appropriate containers.
  • A better way of organising my pages in progress

Best laid plans

Well I was gonna scrap today but it never happened. I ended up doing housework this morning after sleeping in til 10am. then went out to the scrap room and decided to end up doing some cleaning up. found a nifty feature on my phone camera –  a panorama setting!

so here’s a couple of pics I took while out there.

yup it’s a mess…… but it is slowly getting there. just need to finish painting the walls, get some curtains & put up some shelving.

Some new layouts

The last of the music madness challenges – Disco

We Dare Ya Layout 8 – Healing

and a sketch box done last nite as part of a class taken by Kayla. I totally LOVE how this turned out. Might have to make a couple more for gifties. & I’ve decided I’m in lurve with BG Two Scoops. & I have an obsession with Kindyglitz lol.

That’s all for tonight. I’m off to listen to the rest of the football. Go the Hawks!!

The amazing scraproom adventure P2

Well parts of the room are painted & 99% of my stash is put away & semi organised. I’m loving having my own creative space.

Still have to paint the remaining walls, get some curtains, put up shelving & add ‘me’ touches.

Here’s a couple of pics I took this morning. It looks more organised now.

The fence is almost done too. The boys will finish it off tomorrow 🙂

Easter Plans

(or The Great Scraproom Adventure Pt1)

So what are your Easter plans? I gots 4 days off work so my plans involve working in my scraproom (while the boys fix our back fence)

That’s pretty much it. Oh & eating Easter eggs (pref Cadbury Creme Eggs plz)

So here’s a before pic (note the lovely wall paper – it’s gone now)

and this is what it currently looks like (yup it looks like a paper explosion happened lol)

Stuff pretty much got dumped in here in boxes when we moved. I started to organise it but keep getting sidetracked by life (& scrapping) so I am gonna get stuck in over Easter & will keep you all updated as I go 🙂

TFL!!

OTP, Art Journals & Cyber crops

Got the OTP challnge at Mystical Scrapbooks done. The challenge was to alter a mint tin BUT the tin had to serve a purpose.

Here’s my first (yup I’m making two) – a change tin.

Two cyber crops last night, one for ScrapWorld & one for Mystical Scrapbooks. Only got one LO finished thou. I’ve decided I am doing an art journal this year (after buying one last year & not doing it lol)

One of the MS challenges was to create a page that shared our 2008 resolutions. The page had to include a pic of ourself, journaling in list form, use black, white & one other colour (I chose purple) & some bling. So anywho I’ve made this my first page of my 2008 AJ.

Still have to scrap a blurry pic (& use 10 brads min), a page with purple pics, a page about a game & a page about my scraproom. Fairly easy as I have ideas for all of them. Will share pics later & update the great scraproom adventure 😉