I’m playing around with this section of my site so like everything else I have going on it’s a work in progress. Any who…
I’ve been tempted to clean up my space, take pics and post but the creative side of me wants to share what my space looks like at the peak of inspiration. I am proud of my room when everything is in it’s proper cubby, bin or the latest Sterlite container I’ve purchased but I’m proud of myself when I see it in a state of disarray. This means I’m using my stash, working with what I love and creating something to preserve a special moment in the life of a Gunthner or piecing together something special to send to someone I care about.
So… here I am in all my glory, crafting away!
I’ve also included a shot of my individual letter storage and my photo shoot location, our backyard. This is where I take all the pics of my projects. I’ll post more as I take more.
As of today I have a clean slate… check it out:
~ The cassette rack I found at Hospice for $2. It holds my SU Ink Pads.
~ The hanging shelf on the wall is a Pottery Barn shelf that I also found at Hospice for $8.50. It’s so heavy and sturdy. I use to store ribbon off it’s spool or on tiny spools, like the M’s or J’s $1 ribbon.
~ The 3 shelf unit to my left holds full spools of ribbon on dowel holders that I made. The top has a jar full of overflow ribbon that wouldn’t fit on the coordinating dowel or jar on the shelf. Each color has two dowels.
Here’s a link to how I made the dowels http://shannon.gunthner.com/scrapbook/
~ The open shelf is from Lowes… it’s a bathroom vanity mirror that I actually paid full price for. I use bead holders to store all my tiny embellies – brads, eyelets, pewters etc.
~ The spinning rack that’s sitting on my table is a coaster display from a store that I got for free and painted white. I use one side to hold my Ranger Inks – liquids and distress pads, Prima’s, Stickles and Versa Magic Dew Drops. The other side holds more Prima’s, MM eyelet collection, Decorative Accents and my MM Scrapbook colors (paint).
~ The two metal bars holding my SU punches are from Ikea @ $2. They are found in the kitchen dept.
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~ The larger drawer unit came from Ikea from the closet organization dept. It store different pending or ongoing projects, swaps I’m hosting, events that need to be scrapped with coordinating paper, memorabilia and embellies.
~ The smaller drawers are for all paper smaller than 12×12 by color. The bottom three drawers are patterned paper waiting to be sorted and put into my patterned paper storage.
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Top Shelf ~ BIA wires and spray glues.
Second Shelf ~ Extra albums.
Bottom Shelves ~ A bin for each child and one for RAKS that I have yet to give away!
The rest – na’na!
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~ Carrying tote, Cuddlebug behind those… Beads in the plastic picnic basket.
~ More Decorative Accents (6 jars by color – can’t stand these things now!), more Prima’s and my BIA.
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~ Random crap in the Sterilite drawers. All my CB embossing folders. Cutter and Sewing machine.
~ Light box. In the bins: glue gun, sewing supplies, florestry supplies, non acid free adhesives, plaster of paris, velum quote stacks.
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~This cart came from the damaged goods/clearance section of Ikea for $10. It holds my 12×12 Patterned paper and card stock in Generations paper holders.
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~ Mat Stacks
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~ My updated cart storage. I’ve gone through the original boxes on a shelf – too bulky. The Plano’s – hated these! I also tried the M’s polka dot bag which I loved but outgrew so this has been the next best by far. The insert dividers are made of Plastic Canvas. Six sheets in a pack for $1.97 at WM! It takes one and a half sheets for a layer which holds 40 carts. Love this!
I totally scraplifted these but only because I loved them! Thanks Krista aka~Turnip!
They were so easy and a great way to use up some scraps. I went with a totally whimsicle look – I used textured paper for the green ice-creams and loved the way it came out so I CB’d two others [D'vine Swirls and Spots & Dots]. I also used some tie-dyed paper which made one scoop look like sherbet. (Which I always thought was spelled Sherbert!) I also opted to use DS/Alpahlicious to create "birthday" instead of using the George sentiment. I Stickled the cherries with Burgundy & Frost and chalked the cones.
Fun! Fun! Thanks again Krista!
It seems that my room is always evolving. (I guess it depends on my current obsession.) This last month or so it’s been punches @ 40% off of course… MS, SU (@ 20% off) and Borders of all sorts so I had to add a bar to my wall punch storage and obtain a rolling cart for the misc. And sweet DH, my biggest enabler, bought me a HP Photosmart C4450 so I didn’t have to run into the office every time I needed to print something in color so that needed a spot of it’s own and matching jammies of course. I also added a barricade to the front of my table to block out tiny fingers sifting through my papers and crawling through my rolling bins.
Here’s my entire room. Yep, I’m among the garage scrappers.
Here’s the new punch digs:
And I’m not much of a stamp enthusiast so here’s my stamp storage in the midst of the re-org. Maybe when I go down this road (when I have the money to invest…) I’ll be a bit more into the storage of it all but for now, I have them dumped in two large rolling carts. (some of these stamps are 20+ years old… but oh so cute) And looks like I have a love for love, heart and birthday stamps because they individually filled up their own drawer and stacked.
