Spring has sprung...

...and so has a little spring cleaning! Mind you, the rest of my house looks like a freaking warzone, but at least my scraproom is getting in ship-shape.

Seeing how I don't really like anyone enough to have them stay overnight, I moved our spare bed in the guestroom and stood it up against the wall to make room for me and my stuff. Originally, I had it still set up, but it was getting to be a pain to be squeezing in between the table and chair to get at other things. So voila! If we ever have anyone sleeping over, I'm sure they'll find the floor very comfortable! I would say that I was just joking for the newbies' sake, but those who know me probably would know I'm not really joking...LOL.

I also took a trip downstairs into the tenants' area and took an unused DVD/movie case that was just sitting around. Instead of just keeping it on the floor, I had a little creative epiphany and put it on my folding table.

So there's a full view with the desk and all its cleanly glory - it won't stay that way for looong!




A close-up version. So once the rest of the stamps I'm waiting for shows up, I'll probably have to move the picture and the plant up to the top of the shelf to make room for everything, but there's my small embellishments in my glass jars (Dollarama 2 for $1), the smaller jars have paper "Prima" flowers and metal letters. Down under that is more jars and my Stickles! Will have to move those around later as I have more on the way! Under those are my stamps - mostly Studio G mounted stamps (my clear stamps are in my stamp binder) and below that is my carts! Only room for two more...! (Then I'll have to get another shelf...there's another one downstairs, but people are actually using it. Not for loooong...*giggles*

Alright, around the room we go: there's the other side of my work table. My baby Cricut and my Cuttlebaby in full view of course! Inside the plastic shelves: first drawer = adhesives, a TON of adhesives, my Cuttlebug embossing folders in their plastic filing folder, a box of foam shapes and my box of glittery chipboard alphabets. Second drawer, more embellishments that I didn't have enough of to put in jars, third drawer, 4x6 papers in filing folders and larger flowers and wooden shapes. Next drawer, my heat gun (that I totally stole from The Mister because he got it on sale at Canadian Tire for $9 - beat that Michael's! BWAHAHAHAHA!) I know you may not all be that interested in ALL the contents, but consider it more for my purpose than for yours.

There's a close-up of my corkboard that I just remembered I've had for forever! My one and only Cricut cutting mat (note to self: must get some more!) and some things that I was using, the Easter 3D stickers and my favourite ribbon. The hearts are wooden, I got them in 4-packs (4 different sizes in each colour) from the dollar store and I put them up so I could remind myself that I actually have them so I can use them eventually.

The other side of the room holds my sewing desk and once-used sewing machine that I had no idea we even had until about five days ago.





There's my paper sorted by colour and stacks, the black and white polkadotted tote is a recent find to carry all my paper to my next crop-day, and there's more stickers, 3D embellishments, yada-yada and cardstock.




And last, thought certainly not least is my basket of ribbon. There's bobbins of ribbon inside the basket and the ribbon hanging are these spools that I'd gotten at the dollar store (5 for $1) and I found out that the spool didn't have so much in them, so I just knotted them around the basket. This way I can see everything that I have. I only use a little bit anyways, so the length of each is perfect!

I'm just sitting here in my nice, clean scraproom that is slowly getting to be more and more MINE!

Before I forget, a couple recent acquisitions:

Can I just say that idea, tips and technique books are SO AWESOME! These are my favourites! They're all so jam-packed with ideas and tips that it's taking me about two days to go through an entire book, and it always seems like there's more for me to find if I look through it again on another day! Love them!

CURRENT MOOD: CURRENTLY LISTENING TO: ETERNAL FLAME - ATOMIC KITTEN

Better late...

...then never, isn't that what they say?

I'm a little bit disappointed that I didn't discover 'everythingbyhand' on ebay much sooner (or at least before I ordered from 'meganssecrets'). That would have saved me weeks of waiting, that's for sure. I think I placed an order for embossing folders and I got them today!

Maybe it's just compared to how long my other folders took, but it felt like it took no time at all! I love it. Here are my new folders:

So let me try to remember what I got...the one that looks like bubbles, the square mosaic, the bloom dots (?), something that kinda looks like a doily, and a script folder! HAHAHAHA, sorry I'm not so fab on the names, but I know half of you reading this probably own more folders than I do.

I know I said I was pretty much reaching the end of my shopping binge, but I would also like the butterfly emboss and cut folder. We'll save that for another time because I picked up a couple more things...

Tonight was date night with The Mister (usually it's on Wednesdays, but The Mister had that union meeting yesterday). Anyways, we went over to Chapters and wandered around the aisles together holding hands and of COURSE we happened to wander over to the Crafts and Hobbies section, and I got this:

Can I just say, WOW!?! I love this book. It's by the same makers of that other reference book I got the other day and with these two, I don't think I really need any other books. These books are thick and FULL of fun techniques and ideas. I will be sitting down sometime this long weekend with my Post-it tabs, for sure!

Okay, the guilt is close to creeping up on me, but I'm pushing it to the back of my mind because I PROMISE, aside from the things that I've already paid for and just waiting to come in, this last purchase is it for me and I'll get to the creatin' and makin'.

I ordered the DS today from Kim! I think I could have done myself a favor by getting this first. The welding feature I think will make it worth it all on its own. I'll be welding and cutting a bunch of titles to bring with me to the all day crop, as I'm not sure if I'll be bringing my little baby with me.

...and here lies the end of my post(s) for today. Wishing you a productive long weekend and a happy and blessed Easter!

CURRENT MOOD: CURRENTLY LISTENING TO: GOOD MOTHER - JANN ARDEN