Organize Your Space Challenge - Week 4 Remaining Embellishments, Tools, Albums

[AlexWyattMommy]

Here is where I store my Sizzix stuff.
Big dies & BigKick

yes, that is Filt from Pocahontas sitting up there.

This is how I store my smaller dies, embossing folders & extra plates

My DH made the stands, he used a dado and cut slanted grooves for me into some MDF -

Yes, the red ones are in alphabetical order, the cuttle bugs are in the order most used and the quickutz are just stuck in there.

 

[party of 3]

you guys are way too organized for me. i'd love to have mine nicey nice but it looks like Mickster's old room! i'm thinking if dh does finish the basement i'll make it nice then!

 

[aroyer]

Mickster, your room is beautiful!!!! I love the color with the dark floors. And no judgement here either- been there, done that!!!

 

[DisneyIsTerrific]

Mickster, I love your new room. What a nice place to create in!!! And, no judging from me on your old space. I think we've all ended up in that situation before. I know I have and I have to work hard to keep chaos from controlling my area!!!

 

[bits-n-pieces]

If I ever get away from the computer you gals may have inspired me to actually clean my scraproom.

 

[mousescrapper]

sorry I got a little behind in my daily organizing, luckily most of these things were already in it's right and own little space.

So for Day 3) Stamps:

Most of my stamps all already in their own little boxes so they fit nicely in the top shelf of my Scrap cabinet organized mostly by size.

Then I have a bunch of misc stamps that don't have pretty containers so they sit in this bin at the bottom of the cabinet:

Day 4) Chalks, inks, etc:

Ok I have 2 things of chalks and they fit in a drawer of this little cabinet:

My stamp inks are also in 2 of these drawers, plus some misc stamping tools and tiny stamps.

Day 5) Collect Paper & Day 8) Sort Paper (thinking ahead)

I didn't include pictures yet, but most of my paper is sorted by solid colors in one holder, basic patterned paper is sorted by colors in the rainbow and then blacks, browns... this is in another holder. Then I have seasonal or specific item patterned paper, sorted by Holidays, like St. Pat's, Easter, V-Day, Christmas and then outdoor items like leaves, flowers (these look real) and food items, plus beach, water, and such. These are all in another holder.

Then I have papers I buy specific for albums such as WDW, my kids albums, and vacation. These are sorted into specific bins for each of these albums.

Day 6) adhesives:

I have 2 drawers in this organizer devoted to this (below) and I just keep a few things on my scrap working desk like photo squares, dots, tape, etc when I'm working.

Day 7) Cutting systems:

This is something I just recieved as a Christmas present. The dies themselves where easy to store as I had an empty bin to put them. It sits in the cabinet.

Now the actuall machine in it's case:

this was more of an issue. I tired rearranging somethings on a shelving unit, but it didn't fit:

So then I thought how about on top of my other cabniet and move the WDW vacation things:

This worked:

and I moved the WDW things to a hanging shelf and just shifted someother things around:

Well thanks for helping me stay organized....

 

[rlovew]

I got my cuttlebug dies and stencils inventoried on the computer and in a basket that holds them all.

Rebecca

 

[Arizona Rita]

As I only have a Sizzix, one alphabet set and I think maybe 6 dies, Im done!

 

[Raenstoirm]

This is an evil thread. I am a painfully organized person. In fact at least once a month a reorganize the scrap room, so all of this stuff is "done" already. But the thread got me thinking about the usefulness of my current methods and then I went hay-wire and changed them all! I went out and bought the Creative memories embellishment center just to have a really easy way to store my ribbon (they used to be in a box). I bought myself over 100 new dies and folders for the cuttlebug (I bought the entire Disney collection on ebay for only $190! ) with Christmas money, so I had to find a new way to store them. I tried to find a good way, but the best is the binders from cuttlebug itself, so I have spent nearly $100 just to store my dies . Then of course I had to go through EVERY sticker, rub one and embellishment and take them out of the sorted boxes they live in and put them into a three ring binder with page protectors so they are more accessible. Oh and I dug out all of my eyelets, brads, skittles, gems and other little things and am putting them in cute little mason jars to they can be easily seen as well.

My scrap room looks like it exploded and it is all your fault!

 

[AlexWyattMommy]

Glad to help.

Welcome to the madness.

 

[hopemax]

Uh oh, that's not good. It's supposed to look better. But if it is helping make the space more functional, than I suppose the mess is worth it. Actually, for a time my room exploded even worse than it was too. I had too much stuff squished in too little of space, so I needed to empty out drawers and so basically, I am rearranging everything. Except the Sizzix.

 

[PrincessNancy96]

I cleaned my work station off today and baby wiped it and lysoled it down.... and get a tote on it cleaned out, wiped out all my storage containers *dust*.

I piled photos on top of photos that I evidently didn't like when I was working on a LO...so I need to file them away in their boxes....

I now need to corral my 12 x 12 paper and cut some items out which what was really on my list to do today!!!

speaking of going to work on that..there goes my dryer buzzer.. that thing rattles the whole house!!! LOL

 

[hopemax]

Day 8 - Day 17: Sort Your Paper

So I hope everyone has thought of a plan of attack for organizing their paper. I'll be gone through the 17th, so you will have plenty of time, if you don't feel like doing it tomorrow or the next day, or the next day. Unfortunately, I didn't get my paper sorting done before I leave (dentist visit took priority), so I will have to do it all on Day 18 & 19. My plan of attack is:

1. Sort Cardstock from Patterned Paper
2. Sort Cardstock by color
3. Sort out major patterned paper themes (Disney, Christmas, etc.)
4. Sort out manufactures
5. Determine if my old breakdown of patterns, misc still works, or if I have to create new categories.

I setup put away days for both cardstock/patterned paper, but if it works better for you to put it away as soon as you sort, feel free.

If you finish your paper, you might want to start thinking about plans of attack for embellishments and stickers, and start gathering like items together.

Anyone not in the challenge yet, there is still time to do the one item per day until I get back and be all caught up!

 

[AlexWyattMommy]

My paper is sorted.

Now, embellishments, that is a different story. I started with those large special binders with insert protectors. But I didn't know what I was doing and bought all the wrong size spaced protectors. If anyone can use them, let me know. I'll be happy to ship them out before the rate change.

 

[rlovew]

My paper is sorted.

Now, embellishments, that is a different story. I started with those large special binders with insert protectors. But I didn't know what I was doing and bought all the wrong size spaced protectors. If anyone can use them, let me know. I'll be happy to ship them out before the rate change.

I sort anything bigger than eyelets/brads/mini buttons, and little flowers by color. I find it much easier than anything else i tried previously.

Rebecca

 

[MazdaUK]

I wish I had a nice room to scrap in rather than the end of the dining table. I sorted everything out before Christmas and now its back to a bombsite

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

I'm here and working just not posting. I sorted my adhesive into my large tote back but I can't find room for the glue dots still on the roll. So now I have 1/2 of a photo box with glue dots, ticks me off too since space is such a premium, but at least the every day stuff is in my tote.
My sizzix and cuttlebug dies are in a photo box up in the bookcase.

I bought another 3 drawer steralite container that was for inks but it actually worked out for my punches, so I think I'm working on the list just out of order.

No paper to be sorted so I'm keeping busy working on other things. I did how ever pick up my second album from Lisa the other day and got all my April 2005 Disney pages that are done in it and all double sided pages have the protectors on them. I hope to do some more work on them this weekend.

Today I am going to go through completed pages that need pics and try to match up pictures for them and I'm going to start going through my paper to get rid of anything I don't want.

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

Mickster no judgement here, my whole house looks like your before pic!!


AWM, I sort my brads and buttons into the same categories as my paper, holidays, seasons, color, etc.

 

[rlovew]

I sorted my patterened paper and put it away and found I had a number of sections left over so I am using a few of them for papers needed for current/future Complet page swaps. Then I have a few slots for pages completed and ready for using or page kits I have bought that are ready to make and use.

Rebecca

 

[Disney_rider]

How does everyone sort or organize there acrylic stamps????
Mine are in a big Drawer that was intended for paper.

I was thinking binders with those top loading plastic pages and then like baseball card holder pages for the small ones....

Any other suggestions?