Messy Scrap Room

Over on Cafemom in the scrap group that I help admin. we are doing an organizing challenge for our scrap spaces. Whether it be a room, closet, corner or just totes. To start we were to take pics of our area "as is" and post them. I went one better and video taped it. I actually did it using my camera. This is my very 1st video that I have posted on YouTube and of all things it's my messy scrap room! Oh well! A Memory to Scrap is having a garage sale on May 16th and I have bought a table to sell all the stuff I'm ready to get rid of. So far, I've gone through all my 12x12 paper and this is what I weeded out to sell. Crazy isn't it! But this is several years of collecting this paper.



So during my reorganizing of the paper I came up with an idea for organizing my scrap paper that I want to use for cards. Soooooo I made another video. I used the Small Wonder RCA video camera that we have and was able to shoot this one to show my idea. You know this is kind of fun. A lot of work, but fun. I'm thinking about maybe doing tutorial or project videos. Hmmmmm..... I'll be thinking over that one. I know I love watching scrap videos and there are a TON out there so I'm not sure if I have anything new to offer so we'll see. Anywho, I hope this organizing tip helps out. If you do have any organzing questions please feel free to ask me. I really enjoy organizing and also enjoy helping others. I mean I enjoy organzing so much that I WILL go and actually help you organize if you are close enough. I've helped friends and family organize closets, pantries and rooms.

New storage I found

I love going to Tuesday Morning and checking out any scrap stuff they have for a good deal. I went a couple of months ago and found these really cool small storage boxes. I didn't get them because they were $4.99 each and I just didn't know if I could use them. I went back yesterday and they were still there well if that's not fate - what is? hehe This time I knew exactly what I could use them for so I bought both of them. It even had a sticker on them that said they were acid free and ??? hmmm something else like biodegradable or something. Anyway, I LOVE them!!! I used them to put my 3x3 cards in, which I have quite a few from swaps I have done on CafeMom.

The other one I used to put all my little StudioG stamps in, you know the $1 stamps from Michael's and Joann's. Yeah, I know, I have a bunch! If they are still in the package it means I haven't even used them yet. : ( I will eventually, oh and I got a few extra so that I can give them away as blog candy at some point. Yeah, you read that right BLOG CANDY!! I have sooooo much stuff and I really enjoy sharing the wealth that I will do blog candy probably, quite frenquently. Like I said ..... I will buy, bride whatever you want to call, to get blog friends!! muahahahahaha I plan on doing my first blog candy at 1,000 hits. Not too far from now. So tell your friends to come check me out and it will come faster! : )

Ribbon Storage

I am an avid ribbon collector. Once I got into using ribbon on my scrap pages, I became obsessed with buying ribbon. Which is pretty much what I do with any new thing I get interested in. : } Right now I'm into stamps/markers/inks for card making and yes I'm buying stuff for that. Ok enough of my obession, let's get back to the ribbon storage issue. I have found that as I continue to get more ribbon the storage I have no long works. Here is what I had for quite a while.

This worked fine until I got even more ribbon. This is what all my ribbon looks like now. It's in too many different places and I have to look through each spot when I'm looking for ribbon. I'm not using the above pictured storage anymore.

Now for my new solution and I sure hope this one will be the last! I found the Ribbon Ring. I saw it advertised in one of the scrap magazines and I think I saw it someone's blog one time too. Sorry I don't remember whose or I'd give them credit for helping me find this. I ordered 2 starter sets.

I started working on this last night. This is going to take a while and I'm sure I'll need to order more sets. So far though I think I'm going to like it. Once I have the 2 sets completed, I will post pictures. Wish me luck!