ME, ORGANIZING????? YES IT'S TRUE!!

Well, it's a bit of a stretch for those of you that know me, but I have been taking some time to organize my scrappy supplies....this week I took on my dozens of little dollar bin clear stamp sets that I got at Michael's and AC Moore. I had at least put them all in one bin, but I would have to dig through them to find what I wanted, and would give up when I couldn't find what I wanted right away......well, as part of another project, (ripping all my CDs into iTunes on my new MacBook Pro, I am discarding all the plastic cases and putting all the liner notes and cds into a CD case, to cut down on how much space they take up.) So I have all these plastic cases going to the dump, so I decided to repurpose them into clear stamp holders. I put all the little sets into the CD cases, and organized them all by theme. When I realized I would no longer need my wood CD organizer for CDs,  I labeled the spines of my new CD stamp holders, and slid them in, another great repurpose! And now I can find any stamp easily!

The wood Cd organizer repurposed to hold my stamp sets, along with the bin they had all been in, and a few other sets of clear stamps that didn't go with the others.

This is how the cd/stamp holders are all labeled for easy searching. 

This is how I have them all stored, in the repurposed cd organizer! The pink bin is where they were all in a jumbled mess. Now the ones that don't go with these sets are also in their own cd case holders, ready for me to figure out another place for them....heck, maybe just on top of the organizer...

ETERNALLY {FROZEN} IN MY MEMORY

Everytime I look at this photo it brings me back to the day it was taken, and how significant an event it captured...the photo is lousy, fuzzy....but for me I will remember the anxiety and waiting, but by the end of the afternoon, the complete and utter joy!

Check out my Slide Show!

Well, I finally put it together, this slide show is a collection of all the layouts and cards and projects I made during the Crop Till You Drop over at 4 Scrappy Sisters. It was a fun and crazy week of scrapping and stamping challenges, and still can't believe I got 20 layouts done and 12 cards, one gift bag and I started a paperbag book that just needs embellishing...wahoo, that is more than I think I have gotten done in the last year!! Most all the stamps on the cards are a muse, I so love them, how could I use anything else?? Some are better than others, as some might have been made in the wee hours of the morning when I really should have taken the time to stamp the image on white and cut it out..hind sight is 20/20, and I can always go back and fix them easily enough..but here they all are in their raw form!

Thanks for looking everyone!

SCRAPPING TILL I DROP WITH THE 4 SCRAPPY SISTERS

4 Scrappy Sisters is having a weeklong crop!! I have been having a great time, lots of challenges every day, some challenges are for the week, others are for the day. So far i have kept up with the daily challenges but haven't even started my weekly ones, better get going!! I think tomorrow I will make a slideshow with all the Los I have done, thought I would post a couple things for you to look at first, then get the slide show together sometime in the next day or so....thanks for looking!! I love to hear what you think!



all photos taken at a muse card class at Absolutely Everything, Jenn Shurkus, instructor

thanks for looking!

SHEETLOAD OF CARDS CELEBRATES 15,000 HITS!

The blog Sheetload of Cards is celebrating the milestone of 15,000 hits to their blog! They are having a monthlong celebration to commemorate it too! I just love this blog, every month you can download their magazine, which gives a card sketch, then complete directions on how you can turn a few sheets of CS and PP into a whole ton of cards! This month features a Becky Fleck sketch from Page Maps!! Hop on over and check it out, you will be glad you did!!

AMUSE ADDICTS CHALLENGE #30

This weeks challenge was to make a card that reflected something about yourself....so mine is a card about tea, as an innkeeper, I am always thinking about tea and breakfast, pluse, I am just no good without my morning cuppa....I also combined this with a blog challenge to handwrite your saying.....and it's not my best handwriting, but it will do!

thanks for looking!