"Mommy, do you want to get up and see if the Leprechaun came?"
That was the very first thing I heard early Sunday morning. Yes, he did come and quite the mischeveous bugger he is too! He flipped the sofa cushions over and tossed the pillows on the floor, he put Christopher's water glass from the bathroom counter on the towel hook, put the bath towel on the tope of the door and hid his toothbrush and toothpaste! He also left many little shamrock stickers allover the house.
Finally he left a $1 bill stuck to the tv screen with a shamrock sticker. I told Christopher that the dollar must be for me, because I would have to clean up the Leprechaun's mess. However, he assured me that the leprechaun's only leave money for children,,,not mommies. Love St. Patrick's Day morning!
Since St. Patrick's Day is this weekend, and since my husband performs Irish Folk music (Chris Morgan), and since my Irish ancestors would be disappointed if I didn't celebrate this occasion in some way....I think it's time for a bit of a giveaway.
So, I'm looking at a rather fabulous collection of green-y,gold-y scrapbooking/cardmaking/paper crafting goodies that is just begging to be sent out to someone.
Leave a comment here on this post between today 3/13 and midnight on Sunday 3/17. Tell me something fun you do for St. Pat's, your favorite Irish song, your favorite Irish food or drink or just say "Hi!". Monday morning a random number will be chosen and that number post will be the winner! As I've done with other giveaways, I'l let Christopher the son (8yrs.) choose the number without looking at the posts. Sound fun?
Okay......go!
I love IKEA. Seriously, I'm like the people in the IKEA ads that are trying to live in the stores!The store is just so neat and clean. (To say nothing of the cinnamon rolls!) I swear I could spend days roaming the store just for inspiration!
I love all of the cool organizing stuff they have, like these Bygel rails, cups and baskets.
So hand for all of our various paper crafting tools, don't you think? I love storing my most-used punches on one of the rails so they are always close at hand. The colored cups are full of adhesives, sorted by type, scissors and misc. tools. I love the little hooks for the rails, they hold my fav. pinking shears, rulers, stitching templates and such. The hanging buckets (from Target) store tools and other goodies.
Stand still long enough in our home and there is a great likelihood that you will be labeled and placed in drawer unit. Steralite drawers...I love them, every size, every style, they are my favorite organizing tool. They are sturdy, waterproof, easy to clean,inexpensive and easily customized. The ones shown below are just the ones in my studio, I'm embarrassed to say how many other ones are in our home, let's just say "alot".
Small embellishments that are not part of a specific theme (more on those later) are stored by color. I was inspired by Stacy Julian's Scrap By Color video series and I love this method. It makes it so much easier when you want to add something to page or card... you may not know exactly what it is, but you know it needs to be green (or pink, or whatever color). Everything goes in these drawers by color. If I purchase a package of embellishments that includes several colors, I separate them into these drawers. Really tiny things are sorted into small baggies, boxes and baby food, tiny jars. (Tiny Jars? Save these when you get individual serving size jars at restaurant or hotel room service) The color coded daises on these were made using the Uchida 2" Circle Punch and the Fiskars Oopsie Daisy Squeeze Punch. I have a bit of a love affair with that daisy punch, it shows up everywhere!
Here's what the drawers look like inside..the Pink and one of thee Blue drawers. Not always all seperated and neat, but actually I like to sift through the treasures and find just what I need.
I also use the same type of drawer units only larger for other tools and creative necessities!
Itt-bitty drawer unit storing trimmer blades, eraser refills, and such.
All of the drawers fronts were customized with a collection of papers from the Paper Studio from Hobby Lobby. There is ALOT of hidden scotch tape holding those strips of paper onto the drawer fronts!
Tomorrow - "Inspiraton Storage"!
Since I've been helping others organize their creative spaces over the last couple of months and a few of you have asked me to post photos of my scrapbook room/studio, here goes.
I thought I would do this over a few days as to not create a supernaturally long post!
Favorite Part of my Room #1 - Ta-Da! My Inspiration/Memory Board
I had seen grid panels like this in quite a few magazines and loved the idea of randomly clipping odds and ends to it. However, I thought they were a bit expensive so I kept putting it off. Until.....Christopher grew out of his toddler bed a few year ago. We had packed all of the parts and pieces of is bed away and while straightening the attic I came across the "box spring panel thing" that supported the mattress! All I had to do was cut off the corner clip things and voila (!) a (I think) very cool clipping panel!
The items of my panel change every now and then I purge and add new things. Right now it's holding postcards from the Columbia Art Museum, a piece of Mickey PJ's that I had (they wore out but I couldn't throw Mickey out!), a pair of pink baby booties that my Walk Team all has, a lovely ceramic cross from a friend, Minnie Mouse ears, Fiskateer hairband, some pictures and coloring pages Christopher created, a card with Christopher's baby footprints, a (one-armed) gingerbread man Christopher made in school and some cards from my croppinig friends. All of these things just make me happy! And happy is good!
Below the grid is a Thomas Merton prayer that I love, a smaller bulletin board that I covered in scrapbook paper (now I don't want to cover it up with anything!). You'll also find a letter B hook holding my blue-tooth! Yes, I covered the switch-plate to match the room. (everything must match right?)
The hanging lamp is a cheap-y warehouse lamp from Home depot. Hanging from it are some crystals and white paper birds that I had made for Christmas and didn't want to pack away. Finish with some jars of clips and such and an ice cream soda cup with obiviously fake pink daisies and I'm a happy girl.
Organization areas to come tomorrow...............
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