My Much Cleaner and More Organized Scrap Area / Room

I promised you guys I’d post the “updated” pics yesterday but I got super busy so today I am sending them. The pics are blurry in some because its a bit darker in here than I would have liked. It isn’t perfect, but it’s mine

As a final thought, I really, really, really hope my scrap room is done soon. We’ve been putting it off because we are supposed to be moving soon. LOL If we stay, we build one. If we move, I get one.

My Scrap Area

Currently my scrap area is in our huge living room and I love it. I love being in the central location to my family, and the room is so large you hardly notice it – okay, not totally true – I mean when it looks like it does below, it usually is pretty noticeable:

I couldn’t remember if I still had these pics on my computer or if I deleted them. I actually took these about two weeks ago to show a friend so she would come over and help the weekend before last to clean it. Earlier, on the CTMH boards, a lady posted a pic of her scrap area that was absolutely in shambles. Seriously a mess. Makes mine actually look clean (which really isn’t saying much though). So since I am hardly proud of my mess, I thought I’d show it off to my friends. Nobody seemed too shocked, and honestly the room doesn’t look this way anymore. In fact, it looks a LOT better but since its evening now I haven’t gotten any good pics taken – tomorrow AM I will post some of what it looks like now.

BEFORE:

I have two 6′ tables side by side up against a wall with a window. I cannot reach the curtain so I only pull the one side back to enjoy sunlight where I usually work. Those buckets under the table seem to catch all the “extra” stuff and totally needed to be cleaned out and reorganized. I found all sorts of goodies that way. My purse is also not normally placed on my sb table but for some reason its there in these pics. It is ironic to look at it now, because that side doesn’t even resemble these pics anymore.

This pic is my main work area which has not looked this bad since apparently the day these pics were taken! I also don’t typically have my coffee/soda mug on my scrap table because in the next pic you can see my little Chatterbox Tag Along I got in the late 90’s.

The rolling cart in the bottom left of the photograph holds all my stamp sets, so while it can roll under my table, I leave it out so I can get to my stuff more often.

This picture is just further over. That’s all our DVD’s on that bookshelf (that’s been moved too). I moved that around a little so its not right in the “middle” of my scrap area anymore. Love all my shipping boxes there? haha…again GONE! Oh and the missing drawer on the left cart has been returned *giggle*

The bookshelf on the left is MUCH more organized now (and not located there anymore) and I can find everything once again. Funny to look at these pics because it reminds me that I cannot possibly be productive in that mess.

My Dream Scrap Room Has This!

Inspiration and Layout Organization

Another great two peas question. I will write more later. Got to get my scrapbooking butt in gear.

Challenge~
How do you keep your creative ideas from magazine’s etc…

This was a challenge for a really long time. Then I found some solutions that others had tried and kind of combined them into my own.

The best way to show you what I did is to show you the peas album that was my final inspiration.

Here ya go.

And if I do use a layout or scraplift it or think I am done with it, I remove it. This makes room for even more ideas to go in.

At the end of each year I go through the magazines from the past year and find the ideas, inspirations and articles that spoke to me. Sometimes a magazine is so full of ideas that I keep the whole thing, but usually I remove a handful of stuff and then offer the mags on freecycle (clearly stating they’ve been picked through). If its too over picked I toss it. Sometimes I get nothing from one. Does that ever happen to you?

Anyway, that’s how I do it.

I’ll be back later on to post some layouts I have been working on. I need to re-learn how to stitch because I’m tried of taking pictures of layouts and prefer scanning them!