just a few more boxes to arrange in the garage and we'll be done moving in. yay! Everything is in it's place, but it will be interesting to see if that is really it's place or if I should have put it somewhere else. I guess I know if I picked the correct location by the amount of times I hear "honey, where is the..."
My new scrap space in unpacked, just need to do some arranging so it's to my liking, but I hope to be making cards and scrapbooking again very soon! My GOOD friend Karie has been an enabler recently by telling me about some Stampin' Up specials going on...she convinced me to order ;) I'll have lots of inspiration for new cards when I get those goodies along with Southern Scrapbooks being less than 1/2 mi from my house :DSince I don't have any scrappy pictures to post I'll give you one of my little GQ riding in the moving truck with his daddy. He was more than thrilled to get a ride around the block in the big truck!
We're in the middle of our move...you can actually see progress being made at both houses! yay! Monday I had so many things I had on my to do: list but Mother Nature had other ideas...she dumped about 4 inches of snow on our area and shut this southern town down. We had fun enjoying daddy home for an extra day and heading out to make a snowman. This is GQ's first snowman. He was too young when we were in cooler climates and now that he's old enough we live where snow is rare. It was very exciting!
I have to share my craft space with our guest room, so organization and storage are very important. I’m the type of person that likes to have a space and container for everything. It makes me happy to look in a room and see order :D When I’m in creative mode I’m so messy, I have stuff scattered about as I create scrap pages or cards, but when I’m done, I want it to look like something you’d see in a catalog picture. Now I know you won’t ever see my room in a Pottery Barn catalog, but I try to make it look photo worthy. If you’re a faithful reader of my blog (thank you!) you know that we try our best to be as green as we can. I try to carry my green ways into my crafting, including it’s storage. I try to reuse any container/tool in my house that might otherwise go into trash or donation piles to keep my space organized. Below are some ways I stay organized along with some other ideas I’ve come across and are keeping in my head for future use:- Glass Jars - sauces, pickles, salsas, cold coffee drinks, etc: Use to store buttons, ribbons, flowers
- Mint Tins or Baby Food Jars: Use to store brads, eyelets, beads, any small embellishments. Use address labels or a label maker to mark outside of tin with color.
- Hanging File Folders: Use to store paper scraps sorted by color
- CD Jewel Cases: Use to store your clear acrylic stamps. They cling to the jewel case just like they cling to your acrylic blocks. Then you can use a CD tower to store your stamps.
- One piece type clothespin: Use to wrap your ribbon around and then toss into a basket for a cute way to store your ribbon and a nice decorative piece in your craft area.
- Over -the-door pocket shoe organizer: Use to store all your paper punches
- Baseball Card Page Protectors:Use to store single non-mounted stamps. They’re perfectly sized for all those $1 clear stamp sets.
- Old cassette tape organizer:Use to store your in pads. Those small white garage sale tag stickers are perfect to mark sides of pads with color to quickly find desired pad.
- Kitchen Utensil Carousel: Perfect to store tools you use every time you sit down to craft…adhesives, rulers, scissors, markers, etc…
If you have any other storage tips, leave a comment and I’ll edit my post with your idea!
