my darling niece came to play in my scrap room a few weeks ago and we had a great time making a mess, as usual. she was making a small book and was using glimmer mists. she had a large piece of white background paper (thanks Becky!) that she was misting her shapes on. i thought it was too pretty to throw away so i cut it up to make a set of cards for her. all i did was add a few randomly placed jewels. aren’t they pretty?
i even got one in the mail!
when we first moved into this house, the first room inside the door was where we put the desk and the next room was our living room. it’s surprising to me that there are two living spaces since the house {it’s a cottage, really} is so small. the desk is huge – it’s a partner-style desk - big enough to have the computer set up on one side and my scrap stuff on the other side. i am always reorganizing and trying different ways to store my scrap supplies, and i just kept inching the desk further towards the door so that there really wasn’t enough room to pass around it without bumping or stubbing something.
so one night at tea club Earlene suggested that i make my space work for me - she has such great ideas. so i thought about it for a few weeks and one night i decided to just go for it and started moving furniture around. which isn’t the easiest thing to do since i have beautiful handcrafted solid wood {read: heavy!} furniture that my dad has made for me. so just about the time i have everything in complete disarray with the entertainment center halfway between the two rooms, my daughter comes home. she’s pretty used to coming home to find me in the middle of repainting, tearing up carpet, and pulling out drywall, so she just rolls her eyes at me and sighs the heavy teenage sigh. she did help me move the rest of the heavy stuff which i appreciated. she wasn’t a fan of the smaller living room even though i tried to convince her it was cozy, although it has worked out and we’re both pretty happy with the rearrangement.
all that to lead into my scrap room! my friends and i are always talking about organizing our scrap spaces, and Penny just posted pictures of her updated room. since i love love love looking at scrap rooms, i decided to share mine too. i probably took too many photos, so i’ll post some now and some later.
the wall where i have my Sizzix and QuicKutz dies:
i strung a bunch of tape rolls on a ribbon on the top shelf, but i’m not sure it works very well. the wire shelves on the right have some dies, chipboard, thickers, and embossing powders:
going around the room to the right, here my papers start in rainbow order. the wooden drawer holds ribbon wrapped around cards {i know Chris is going to want to see inside the drawers, but i forgot when i was snapping photos}:
next to the metal shelves are plastic drawers. the ones mounted on the wall hold alphabets and the ones on the floor hold paper scraps {in rainbow order, of course}, and the ones in the middle hold journaling cards, flowers, small embellishments, and stuff with words on them.under the far wall drawers is a large metal bin with larger scraps of paper :
next to these, on the south wall, is the bakers rack with more papers in rainbow order {it’s how my brain works when i scrap}, punches, buttons, bling, and a plastic shoebox with stuff i keep in the packages like rub-ons, stickers, bigger brads, etc. on the right of the rack are some drawers with stamps, punches, and chipboard that i recently moved to this spot. not sure if i will keep it there yet or not :
and here’s a pullback view of the east and south walls:
thanks for looking and let me know if you have any questions!
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