Confession #10

...take a deep breath folks (or maybe I should be the one taking a deep breath! LOL)...

This is where the magic happens...

...and that wasn't even the whole room that I shot...but at least I finished my Mother's Day projects! More on those later...off I go to make a little headway in cleaning!

CURRENT MOOD: LAZY CURRENTLY LISTENING TO: NOT A WHOLE LOT

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

Home away from home...

...or home inside my home? Anyways, seeing as I'm antisocial in real-life, we don't have a lot of visitors staying the night too often so I have comandeered the guestroom and have turned it into my wonderful scrapping room. (The guestroom also doubles as The Mister's closet, seeing as how I took over the master bedroom's closet).

Come take a little tour with me...I haven't posted anything like this on the boards, as I still feel like quite the newbie, and also because some of the girls' rooms put mine to SUCH shame...that's okay, I'm just starting out - plenty of time to catch up! And so we go...

So here we are...the view from the door, I didn't want to focus on everything else in the room because it's messy. I make sure to clean my scrapping area, but everywhere else is a war zone...LOL...

Please note the essential part of the scrapping area, the pillow on the chair. This is a MUST-HAVE because my bum starts to hurt from sitting here too long looking through threads and making posts so I can graduate from a Baby Bug to a Lil' bug...


I was too lazy to rotate the picture, but you can see four files with handles ($1 each from Dollarama). One of the files has Primas - I'll have a better place to put them soon, another of the files have wooden shapes, and the other two files have 4x6 papers


Next drawer you'll see in the back corner a package of makeup sponges, haven't used them yet, but someone on the board mentioned them...so I got them. $1 from the dollar store as well. The red box contains assorted chipboard letters (three different colors - each colour set of alphabets $1 from the dollar store). The wooden box I had gotten intending to decorate it, but right now it is holding foam stickers (from the dollar store - am I getting reptitive). The two files are holding my Cuttlebug embossing folders and dies.


And the delight of the whole room (at least until my Cricut arrives and then it will take 2nd place), my beautiful Cuttlebug baby and the mats...


Ah-ha! An essential asset to stay connected to the message boards...and a great accomplice to keeping me connected to the people who keep enabling me to buy things! Also will be very useful for when I have acquired Design Studio


Absolutely necessary for me to have beside me...so I can buy all the things everyone on the board is talking about!


Paper, paper and more paper. Also 3D stickers and other embellies that don't fit into my sticker binder...


Speaking of which...my sticker binder. Lost count how many pages, but each page protector holds stickers of different categories and different kinds of stickets etc. (most of these from the $1 of course!)

To keep up my strength without have to leave the room...LOL. And because they taste delicious!

The fun part! I LOOOOVES embellies. They just add so much more to a card or layout. The ones in the jars I got from the dollar stores. Oh I forgot to move the smaller jars out of the way...the first small jar holds my blending stubs. In the plastic storage containers are just more smaller embellies and my small punches.

And last but not least, the bins (of course, from the dollar store) The circular bin holds my stamping things...so far a couple of ink pads, two wooden stamps and my clear stamps...plus some embossing powders. The middle bin has all my essential materials, glue/tapes, foam dots, some ribbons, and paper cutters, the last bin has the artsy things, prismas, pastels, blending chalks, mona lisa, sponges and my eyelet tool kit

So here's my work area for now...it'll all get changed around again I'm sure once my Cricut baby makes its way home!

So far, I've been on here talking about scrapping and my scrapping area, but I actually haven't really done much scrapping as of late...but it's fun to know I have a lot of STUFF to use when I decide to get down to it!

CURRENT MOOD: CURRENTLY LISTENING TO: HATE THAT I LOVE YOU - RIHANNA & NE-YO