Kiss and Tell Scrapbooking

8 Inches of Thickers

That title sort of sounded obscene right?  Well, maybe the amount of Thickers I have is a little obscene but I got them all on sale!  I tried to fit them in a magazine holder but it did't work the way I wanted it to.   Here are my 8 Inches of Thickers all in one handy dandy basket that sits right near my scrapdesk - and yes of course I arranged them in color order!

 

 

The Century Scrapbook Project Episode #12: Organizing Your Photos Chronologically

I came across lots and lots of old photos at my mom's house and, since she didn't want me to take them and said we'd scan them "someday", I took the opportunity to photograph them with my point and shoot camera to make sure they are saved at least somehow.  The duplicates aren't perfect, but at least I have them.  Here's how I quickly organized them:

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Paperclipping Roundtable: Link Lists for the Scrapbooking Podcast

I love the Paperclipping Roundtable and love to listen to the episodes while I'm scrapbooking.    I also love to listen to old episodes so I thought I'd create  some link lists according to how I like to listen to them or search for them (since the site is a little hard to navigate if you are looking for the older episodes and its hard to tell what the subject of the shows are because of the creative title):

PAPERCLIPPING ROUNDTABLE EPISODES WITH STACY JULIAN OR DEBBIE HODGE:

#1 Stacy Julian Zen Master of Scrapbooking

#4 The Chaotic Show

#7 The Process of Scrapbooking

#12 Heart on Fire Brain on Ice

#15 The Mini Book Show

#20 This is Stacy

#28 Poopy Stuff in our Backgrounds

#29 Oh The Trunk

#33 Uninterpreted Bits

#40 You Won't Be Interested In This Topic

#46 Hone Your Intuition

#47 Scrapbook the Commute and Lunch

#49 All Twelve Months

#52 Hook Drugs

#55 Almost Live from CHA

#58 You Forget

#60 Innovations in Scrapbooking

#63 Strangely Obsessed And Sick Group

#64 Long Projects Chronicled

#67 Library of Freedom

#73 Scrapworthy Lives

#76 Summer CHA 2011

#81 Organization on the Move

#84 So Cute Today

#92 The Two Page Layout Show

#100 CHA Baby

#102 I say Awesome and You Say Cute

#105 Categories of Amazingness

#107 Scrapbooking Teens

#111 In Ten Easy Steps

#119 Imagine

#121 Your Personal Style

 #123 The Confession Show

PAPERCLIPPING ROUNDTABLE EPISODES WITH ANGIE LUCAS OR WENDY SMEDLEY:

#4 The Chaotic Show

#7 The Process of Scrapbooking

#11 Viewer Mail

#17 Scrapbooker Know Thyself

#18 The Yin and Yang of Who I Am

#24 Hidden Journaling

#31 This Show Kicks A

#35 Memory Go Round

#41 I fought Sorting By Color

#42 Titles Don't Have to Stop Traffic

#48 If My Husband's Listening

#53 Getting It All Together

#57 The Closet Trendsetter

#66 Thinking Inside the Box

#71 For Big Scrapbooking Projects

#77 Masters of the Long Arm Extension

#79 The Personality Episode

#87 Questions, Lists and Prompts

#95 Before You Entered the Picture

#100 CHA Baby

#106 Scrapbook Procrastination

 #113 It Makes You Brave

 #123 The Confession Show

PAPERCLIPPING ROUNDTABLE EPISODES WITH ALI EDWARDS OR BECKY HIGGINS:

#3 Ali Edwards on Story

#6 How to Deal With All That Stuff

#16 Implanted Under Your Skin

#17 Scrapbooker Know Thyself

#19 How Vintage Are You?

#32 God Bless Ikea

#36 Go Outside

#45 Pile On Ali

#46 Hone Your Intuition

#49 All Twelve Months

#56 Breaking the Quote Rules

#68 Taking Photos You'll Love

#72 Working In the Scrapbooking Industry

#79 The Personality Episode

#89 Makes Me Want to Go Make Something

#97 Yes, Yes, and Yes.

#100 CHA Baby

#104 On Blogging and Scrapbooking

#119 Imagine

#124 The Things That Amaze You

PAPERCLIPPING ROUNDTABLE EPISOSES WITH MAY FLAUM OR TAMI MORRISON:

#22 Burnt Cookies

#24 Hidden Journaling

#61 Access Your Creativity

#76 Summer CHA 2011

#85 The Many Faces of Neutral

#92 The Two Page Layout Show

#95 Before You Entered the Picture

#105 Scrapbook Procrastination

#114 My Experience of Your Experience

#118 Not A Themey Person

#120 Not A Fan Of Neon

PAPERCLIPPING ROUNDTABLE EPISODES WITH SHIMELLE LAINE or CHRISTINE

URIAS:

#30 CHA Summer 2010

#38 A Metaphysical Bandwagon

#74 Polka Dots With Buddhist Temples

#80 The Glitter Queens

#81 Organization on the Move

#85 The Many Faces of Neutral

#90 Scrapbooking the 80s

#103 Too Precious to Scrapbook

#109 My Supplies are Talking To Me

#110 Clash of th Die Cutting Machines

#117 Take Your Scrapbooking To The Beach

PAPERCLIPPING ROUNTABLE EPISODES WITH ANNA CABRERA OR JULIE FEI-FAN BALZER:

#4 The Chaotic Show

#6 How To Deal With All That Stuff

#9 Does Size Matter?

#15 The Mini Book Show

#21 The Sum of Our Stories

#23 Design Teams

#25 Jen McGuire Gets Her Fix

#29 Oh The Trunk

#34 When They Get Hot They'll Black Out

#37 World's Worst Mom

#43 Different Scrapbook Styles

#44 Stories in Hand

#48 If My Husband's Listening

#51 Location Location Location

#52 Hook Drugs

#55 Almost Live from CHA

#59 Smart Phone Photos

#61 Access Your Creativity

#62 Not That Deep

#65 As You Wish

#69 Everything Could Use a Rhinestone

#72 Working in the Scrapbooking Industry

#80 The Glitter Queens

#84 So Cute Today

#88 I Scrap Dead People

#94 The Future of Scrapbooking

#99 A Page On Y'all

#107 Scrapbooking Teens

#114 My Experience of Your Experience

#116 How to Mail A Coconut 

PAPERCLIPPING ROUNDTABLE EPISODES WITH OTHER AWESOME SCRAPBOOKERS:

#77 Karen Poirier-Brode

#87 Laine Ehmann #60 Lain Ehmann

#91 Elizabeth Dillow

#91 Stephanie Howell

#96 Cathy Zielske

#101 Steph from The Daily Digi

#105 Heidi Swapp

#108 Molly McCarthy

#73 Stephanie Medley-Rath #108 Stephanie Medley-Rath

#109 Dina Wakely

#103 Wilna Furstenberg

#113 Karen Grunberg #101 Karen Grunberg

#115 Jessica Sprague   #96 Jessica Sprague #88 Jessica Sprague

 #115 Monica McNeil

#116 Kristina Werner

 #117 Amy Tan #102 Amy Tan

#51 Liz Ness

#27 Kelly Purkey

PAPERCLIPPING ROUNDTABLE CHA EPISODES & Scrapbook Industry & Trends:

#4 Live From CHA

#11 Viewer Mail

#16 Social Media and Scrapbooking

#23 Design Teams

#27 Plain Old Green

#30 CHA Summer 2010

#34 Question & Answers Episode

#50 The 50th Episode Celebration

#52 Hook Drugs

#55 Almost Live From CHA

#60 Innovations in Scrapbooking

#65 As You Wish

#72 Working in the Scrapbook Industry

#73 Scrapworthy Lives

#76 And I Might Be Wrong

#78 So Proud to be a Part of It

#83 The 6x6 Paper Pad Show

#94 The Future of Scrapbooking

#99 A Page On Y'All

 #100 CHA Baby

PAPERCLIPPING ROUNDTABLE ON PHOTOGRAPHY:

#26 Organize Your Photos

#59 Smart Phone Photos

#68 Taking Photos You'll Love

 #112 Photography Equipment

PAPERCLIPPING ROUNDTABLE ON JOURNALING AND STORY TELLING:

#3 Ali Edwards on Story

#21 The Sum of Our Stories

#24 Hidden Journaling

#32 Telling Family Stories

#44 Stories in Hand

#58 Techniques for Capturing Story

#87 Questions, Lists and Prompts

97 "Memory Keeping"

#101 Journaling vs. Embellishments

#104 On Blogging and Scrapbooking

#124: Telling Stories about Cultural Changes Over Time

PAPERCLIPPING ROUNDTABLE ON SCRAPBOOKING TECHNIQUES:

#2 Donna Downey The Artist

#8 Scrapbooking Tools

#19 How Vintage Are You?

#25 Jen McGuire on Techniques

#29 Technology in Scrapbooking

#31 Arts & Crafts

#33 Using Memorabilia in Scrapbooks

#43 Different Scrapbook Styles

#54 At Peace With Buckling

#69 Scrapbooking Embellishments

#75 I Don't Drip Either

#80 The Glitter Queens

#85 Using Neutrals in Scrapbooking

#89 Stamping on Scrapbooking Layouts

#98 Digital Scrapbooking

#110 Clash of the Die Cutting Machines

#116 Making Card with Scrapbooking Supplies

#122 Using Non-Scrapbook Items in Scrapbooking 

#120 Scrapbooking Colors and Trends

PAPERCLIPPING ROUNDTABLE ON MINI BOOKS & ALBUM STORAGE:

#15 The Mini Book Show

#45 How to Finish Mini Books

#57 Scrapbook Albums

#62 Art Journals

#64 Long Projects Chronicled

#67 Library of Freedom

#71 Big Scrapbooking Projects

#82 Making Unique Mini Books

#105 Categories of Amazingness

PAPERCLIPPING ROUNDTABLE ON TRAVEL AND VACATIONS:

#51 Location Location Location

#74 Polka Dots With Buddhist Temples

#117 Scrapbooking Outside and on Vacation

#118 Travel & Vacation Scrapbooking

PAPERCLIPPING ON HOLIDAYS AND CELEBRATIONS:

#39 Halloween Scrapbooking Ideas

#48 Holidays & Celebrations

PAPERCLIPPING ON SCHOOL PROJECTS  & PROJECT LIFE & Other Stages of Life:

#17 Becky Higgins on Project Life

#20 Chronological Scrapbooking

#28 Adopted Children

#37 School Scrapbooking

#47 Scrapbooking Work

#49 All Twelve Months

#77 Scrapbooking Your Spouse / Marriage

#84 Scrapbooking Your Parents or In-Laws

#88 Family History Scrapbooking

#90 Scrapbooking The 80s

#91 Scrapbooking The Military

#95 Scrapbooking Step Families, Divorce, and other Sensitive Family Situations

#96 Year Long Projects

#107 Scrapbooking Teens

#114 My Experience of Your Experience

 #115 Project Life - 6 Months Later

PAPERCLIPPING ROUNDTABLE ON SCRAPBOOKING ORGANIZATION:

#6 How To Deal With All That Stuff

#22 Unfinished Projects

#41 Sorting by Color

#53 Getting It All Together

#66 What to Bring to Scrapbooking Crops

#70 Shared Scrapbooking Spaces

#81 Organization on the Move

#102 Scrapbooking Systems

#108 Budgeting for Scrapbooking Supplies

 #111 Scrapbook Organization

PAPERCLIPPING ROUNDTABLE ON CREATIVITY:

#1 Stacy Julian Zen Master of Scrapbooking

#5 Why People Don't Scrapbook

#7 The Process of Scrapbooking

#12 Heart on Fire Brain on Ice

#14 Done is Better than Perfect

#18 Why You Scrapbook

#35 Memory Go Round

#36 Zen Habits for Scrapbookers

#38 A Metaphysical Bandwagon

#40 You Won't Be Interested In This Topic

#46 Hone Your Intuition

#56 Breaking the Quote Rules

#61 Access Your Creativity

#79 The Personality Episode

#93 A Vintage Scrapbook Story

#103 Too Precious to Scrapbook

#106 Scrapbook Procrastination

#113 Getting Beyond Creative Scrapbookers Block / The Blank Page

#119 Imagine - Book Review

#121 Your Personal Style

#123 Weaknesses and Struggles in Scrapbooking / Page Layouts

PAPERCLIPPING ROUNDTABLE ON SCRAPBOOK LAYOUTS:

#9 Scrapbook Page Size

#42 Scrapbook Titles

#63 Review of 4 Pages by 4 Scrapbookers

#86 Design Principals on Scrapbook Pages

#92 The Two Page Layout Show

#109 Review of 4 Scrapbook Layouts by 4 Scrapbookers

 

 

 

$76 Scrapbook Yard Sale Haul Video

Whoo Hoo !  It was the Scrapbooking Yard Sale at Whim So Doodle Today and I made a HAUL VIDEO!  Here it is:

 

$20 for an art class next Saturday for me and my daughter to take together!

$28 for 5 paper packs (6x6):Heidi Swapp Sugar Chic; Heidi Swapp No Limits; Crate Paper Story Teller; Studio Calico Take Note Collection; & Amy Tangerine Sketchbook.

$26 for 4 organizing bins; 4 mini books; 4 packs of embellishments; 4 packs of Theresa Collins journaling cards;  one pack of metal clock faces; one acrylic stamping block; one Creative Memories paper trimmer; and one piece of 12x12 Studio Calico patterned paper;  PLUS an assortment of Barbie garden pots, presents, shutters and hats for my girl. 

And lots of fun conversations with scrapbookers and art journalers.

What a lovely Saturday Morning.

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Now we are off for another adventure - more on that soon.

 

 

Scrapbooking Organization Solutions

I find that in scrapbooking, I use what I can see or know how to find easily.  Here are some links to my favorite Scrapbook Organziation posts:

1. Scrapbooking Organization Blogs

2. Scrapbooking Rolling Cart from Ikea

3. Scrapbooking Embellishment Organization Solution

4. How to Organize Scrapbook Layouts into Albums

5. Theories on Scrapbook Organziation Techniques.

Scrapbook Journaling on Vacation

I am on vacation and I am Scrapbooking the trip while I'm traveling. I have a few videos explaining how I'm using my iPhone and digital camera to record some of my memories. I am also using a composition book to write down things I want to remember.

Have you ever scrapbooked while on vacation? What worked / didn't work for you?

P.S. I'm also blogging via my iPhone! Technology is awesome!

Twelve in 2012

I am so excited to have signed up for Stacy Julian's Twelve Class at Big Picture Classes.  I can't wait for class to start!  Yes, I'm that nerd in the front row with two number 2 freshly sharpened pencils laid out neatly in front of me and my notebook opened and ready to take very detailed notes.  I love learning and I am always inspired by what Stacy Julian has to share. 

The pre-class project is to repurpose an open bin that you already have, I used a "Stacy Julian Green" metal locker style bin that I picked up at Joann's Crafts a few years ago.  It is about 10 inches deep, 10 inches front to back open at the top and 1o inches across at the top and about 7 inches at the bottom so I had to cut the divider sheets for the unique shape of the bin.  As per class instructions, I made 12 divider sheets with cardboard bases and colorful patterned paper and binder clips; I added the envelopes from Ditto.  I also sewing machine stiched the paper down to make the patterned paper stick down better; I am actually in the process of finishing the stitching on all of them.  The black and white checkerboard at the top is duct tape!

See you in class!

P.S. Stephanie - here's a link to the envelopes I used - they are Ditto by Hampton Arts, colorful binder clips from Office Depot, and the awesome patterened duct tape!

Did you see there is Hello Kitty Duck Tape??? And the Black Damask and Houndtooth look awesome too and the Candy Cane??!!  I love that they are making fashion colored duct tape, it is a happy, happy thing.

Ella Publishing Boot Camp!

I'm a last minute traveler and signer-upper-for-on-line-classes, I just registered for Ella Publishing's Boot Camp!  There's still time to join the fun at www.ellapublishing.com.  I have loved Angie Lucas & Wendy Smedley since sometime around 2004 when I discovered Simple Scrapbooks - they always produce quality scrapbooking inspiration so I know that its going to be awesome.  Come play with me at the Boot Camp!

In the meantime, here are a few layouts I created while I was an Ella Friend (2009-2010).

 

P.S. And YES! I did pay for the class, just in case you were wondering.

Monochromatic-Ally & Storing Scrapbooking Embellishments by Color

 
I saw a challenge by Wendy Smedley on the Big Picture Classes Blog to make a monochromatic layout and I made a double page 12x12 layout of my daughter for a post-bound album I'm working on for her.  It was easy because the background paper was already color-blocked.  The page took much longer than I normally take to make a page, however, because I used lots and lots of rub-ons.  Creating this 2 page spread was a fun way to get into my color organized embellishments.

 
And that's how it looks in the book - I put it towards the front of the book & I like this layout because it takes Ally from when she was a tiny baby (look at that one in the top left of me holding  her up - she was only about a month old then) an the lower right photos are very recent.  Ahh how time flies.

So how do I decide whether to store embellishments by color or theme?  If the theme is dominant then the embellishment gots into a themed embellishment bin but if it is more generic then it goes into the color bins.  I like having two systems.  I was born under the Gemini sign afterall ;)  Katie.

Event / Holiday Scrapbooking & Scrapbooking Product Organization by Theme

Sometimes, I just want to make a page about an event or holiday; despite my love of the Simple Scrapbook philosophy of scrapbooking the everday / routine stuff / little things over just scrapbooking the big events.  I tend to take lots of photos of the big events and holidays and when I go to scrapbook them, typically I like to use a bit of themed scrapbooking supplies - especially since I KNOW I have themed stuff in my scrapbooking stash - but in the past with my organization by color, I've had a hard time finding the themed stuff quickly, so I decided it would be good to keep the themed stuff together. 

EASTER LAYOUT:  I just made this layout using my new themed scrapbook supply organization and I was able to find the bunny patterned paper in a snap.  The Page:  The photos from Easter this past year were less than awesome, the lighting was bad, my son refused to put on a shirt, and the kids were on fast forward finding eggs and didn't want to stop and give me a cheesy smile.  But I did take a bunch of photos, so with less than awesome photos - I decided to go with lots of photos on the page.  Allison thought the layout was "AWESOME!" and she looked at it for a really long time.  I think the kids do enjoy layouts with many photos - even if the photos aren't perfect.

 
SCRAPBOOKING ORGANIZATION BY THEME:  Since my recent scrapbook room re-organization, I was able to find Easter themed patterned paper really easily.  I think that color organization is great, but for super themed scrapbooking products, I like to organize them by theme.  My themes-storage right now include:  

Baby

Birthday

Calendar

Christmas

Easter

Fall

Family

Girly

Home

Nature

School

Spring

Summer

Travel

Vintage

Wedding

Winter

I used old medium flat rate mail boxes from the office and cut them in half and I'm loving this system of storage, here's a peek:

 
I still store most of my paper and supplies by color, but for item that are highly themed, these theme bins are awesome and make making mini-books and event scrapbooking really easy.

How do you organize supplies & what do you have the most trouble finding when you are scrapbooking?

 

Back that Thing Up {Digital Photography & Scrapbooking} & Free Flickr Slideshow: A Place to Store Your Scrapbook Layouts / Online Backup

In the world of digital photography, video and scrapbooking - Can you ever back that thing up enough? 

Probably no.  Computers, hard drives and other back up systems break or become outdated.   Many years ago, our computer guy at work warned me: "Don't get too attached to computer hardware" - in other words, he and my husband/inhouse tech-man, Charlie, were going to switch out my computer whenever and frequently -  so if I had something I wanted to save, I'd better do it on the network at work rather than on my workstation.  They weren't giving me any guarantees about stuff I saved on my C drive.  Even with that knowledge, over the years and having my computers switched out who knows how many times, I know that I have lost photos on computers.  Gone.  Just gone.  I'm sort of ok with that because back in the olden days of film and the beginning of digital photography, I printed just about everything my camera shot.  Fast forward to today:  I take 20 times more photos than I print.  Even with a system of printing my photos on  a fairly regular basis, there are literally tens of thousands of photos I do not print.  Will I ever need them?  Probably not, but still, its nice to know that they are "there" on my external hard drives if I ever needed them.

Here's my digital dilemma:  I'm working on a different computer this morning so I don't have access to my normal stuff - my external hard drives for most of my photos and scrapbook layouts are in the scrapbooking room connected to my scrapbooking computer.  Problem is:  The monitor of the computer in my scrapbooking room just died (probably).  Charlie is going to work on it today to either fix it or replace it.   This all got me to thinking - actually this is not a new thought - that backing up on CDs, negatives, external hard drives, or whatever is probably never good enough.  But is backing up in the clouds good enough?  I'm not for certain but I do back up my photos and scrapbook layouts, which are traditional paper layouts that I then photograph, in the clouds using www.shutterfly.com, www.flickr.com, and here on www.typepad.com.   I even made a Shutterfly hard bound book of my scrapbooking layouts (or at least some of them).  Here is a link to the slideshow of my Scrapbook Layouts Shutterfly book:

Click here to view this photo book larger

 And here is the link if you can't see the stuff in the above box: http://katiescottscrapbooking.shutterfly.com/pictures/810

What I love about the photo book of my traditional scrapbook pages is that I don't HAVE to go digital with my scrapbooking if I don't want to.  (I sort of want to add digital scrapbooking to my skills set, but that's another story).  So even if I'm a"traditional paper scrapbooker"I can still enjoy the benefit of the compact size of the photobook and the implied safety of the online backup of my layouts.

Is backing up online enough?  Who knows, but it is somewhat comforting to know that if the State of Florida blew away in a hurricane or something, that many of my photos and scrapbook layouts would not be lost because they are on the internet.  Will this change in the future?  Probably.  But for now, I back my photos up online in addition to using several external hard drives.  How do you back up your digital photos and scrapbook pages?  Please leave a comment, I would love to know.

Side Note:  I married Charlie back in 1999 mainly because I thought he was cute; if I could rewind time, I would marry him again, but the reasons would be different - this time one of the major ones would be "he can fix stuff" - my advice if you are not married yet?  Marry someone who knows how to fix stuff - especially if you are the type of person who doesn't know how to fix stuff - and by stuff I'm talking technology & computers but also toilets and cars.  Just this minute, Charlie is working on his "honey-do" list which is as follows this weekend: 1. fix my iphone, 2. fix my computer, 3. figure out how to make a members only site in ustream - I want to make private training videos for work - actually, I've made a bunch but have apparently made them so private that the people at work are having trouble getting in.  So its nice to be married to a tech-y guy.  Side Note to that:  We watched Dinner for Schmucks last night - so funny & well done - I love that kind of movie & Steve Carrell played an adorable nerd.  Yay for nerds. 

Ok, back to the story of  online backing up digital photos and scrapbook pages:  Another place I "back it up" online is flickr.  I actually have 2 flickr accounts - I think maybe I couldn't remember my password and created a new account one of the times that I did Lain Ehmann's LOAD Challenge.  (See I really am technology challenged.)  I was playing with my flickr account this morning and discovered I could create a photoslide show and share it.  So here's my attempt at the Flickr Slideshow Share:

 

I see that its flash so it probably won't show up on my iphone, so here's the link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/37095341@N08/show/. 

Now lets see if I can find my other flickr account....

Please share your photo and scrapbooking back up tips - leave a comment - I'd love to learn more about backing up digital photos and scrapbook pages - digital or paper. 

 

Show & Tell on Ustream on my Ikea Hooks & Baker's Rack Scrapbooking Embellishment Storage & Flickr Group Scrapbooking By Numbers: 1st Virtual Scrapbooking Crop on Ustream - 10 pm (eastern) on March 1

Here's the link to the ustream video where I show and tell my Ikea hook system for scrapbooking embellishment storage:

 

Click here if the above box doesn't work.

Links:

Blog:  http://kissandtellscrapbooking.typepad.com

Flickr Group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/1383543@N22/

Next Ustream Event: Virtual Crop:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/kiss-and-tell-scrapbooking#events

twitter account: http://twitter.com/#!/KatieFScott

Hope to see you at the Ustream Virtual Crop on March 1, 2011 at 10 -11 pm US eastern  - bring 3 photos (going the same way - either all 3 horizontal or all 3 vertical / but not mixed up).  We'll create layouts together & then post them to the Flickr Scrapbooking by Numbers Group. 

Fun.  I'm trying to do a lot, but need to get scrapbooking back into my daily activities.

I did do a "half-baked" layout during the ustream video shown above.

Night Night :)

Ikea Hooks for Scrapbooking Organization

 
In addition to the embellishments I'm storing on a baker's rack (see my last project post), I did take several journaling tag pads and hooked them onto a metal basket I use for scraps and odds and ends and this is very easy access to my scrapbooking workspace - I'm in love with these little Ikea hooks. Love them.

 

Ikea Hooks + Baker's Rack = Scrapbooking Embellishment Organization

 
Several months ago when I was at Ikea (ahhhh, I love Ikea), I bought some packs of Dignitet hooks (Utility Model No BR 2004 0008  / product number 200.759.47 - just in case you are wondering), and tonight I finally figured out what to do with them:  organize my scrapbooking embellishments!  I was going to use them for my kids' art work but I haven't figured out the wallspace for that project yet.  But I do have a small space in my scrapbooking room that was begging for something and this ws the perfect thing.  Now I have visual stimulation and extremely easy access to the embellishments I've been wanting to use.  I'm in love with this project and it only took about 20 minutes to execute and probably cost less than $10 bucks - since I got the bakers / cookie wire rack from my kitchen (I don't think I've ever cooled cookies on it anyway - we usually eat them while they are still warm from the oven!  I am slowly and totally revamping my scrapbooking room - this was an easy project that I'm very certain I'm going to love for a long time.

 

Saturday Scrapbooking

It is Winter CHA 2011 and I am sort of wishing that somehow I could be out there looking at all the new scrapbooking awesome-ness.  I have seen a few lines that I'm in love with - like Websters Pages and Pink Paislee.  But today, I am organizing my volumnious collection of paper that I already have.  In fact, I've been on an organization kick for the past month, so between having the flu go through my entire household, my major reoganization of the house and office, a ski trip, and yet another energy zapping cold - I haven't had a lot of time for scrapbooking this year / month.  But I guess knowing that all the scrapbooking people are out in California basking in the new scrapbooking stuff, well, I just sort of felt like being in the scrapbooking room today.  Most of the time I spent organizing my pattered paper - I could seriously open my own store.  I have been thinking about how some of the paper in my stash looks similar to the sneek peaks I've been seeing and that maybe with the addition of some current embellishments - I could make some very hip and trendy looking layouts if I were so inclined, I'm not sure that I am; but I do want to get back to the daily ritual of scrapbooking.  So I did make a page today about our recent ski trip:

 
I had the guy who rented us the skis snap this picture and it is probably one of the top three best from the trip - and Mac loves this layout so I framed it and put it in his newly organized and seriously awesome room above my former completely awesome desk - this desk is now Mac's Lego Desk - and I've warned him that I've only loaned it to him and that he needs to treat it well because someday I'll take it back for scrapbooking - but for now all of those 12 wonderful drawers are all his for gazillions of lego pieces:

 
Sort of makes you want to play legos doesn't it?  It is a seriously sweet set up.  Mac's room was the first in my deep down purging - organizing - and cleaning mission this month.  And I barely want him to play in his room or take out his toys for fear he'll mess up the room!  Crazy right?  But I put a lot of work into completely overhauling that boy's room.  Where was the boy today?  He and his dad went to Mac's 2 hour Orange to Green Belt Karate Test and he broke a wooden board with his barefoot!  I sent Charlie with the camera and he did a good job of getting some pictures while I stayed home with the girls who played in a princess tent in the yard while I did more organizing.  I'm sorry I missed the test, but I'm still a little bit under the weather so it was nice to stay in my jammies all day. But check out Mac's super powerful kick: