All done! (Cleaning Scraproom Post 2)

Phew! I really didn't think that it would take me 2 days to clean out my closet ... but it did!! I purged a ton of stuff and could open up a store!!

It's such an incredible feeling to have cleaned so much out, re-organized and tidied things up. I really needed to clean my scraproom up because it always serves as my piano studio. I hate having it a mess when my students come so I really felt the need to re-organize and clean up!

Here's the closet BEFORE:

I had tall paper racks - 1 1/2 for Canadian Scrapbooker stuff

and the other was Manufacturer/Design Team products. It was just getting too hard for me to search

for a certain collection/paper when I needed it for an assignment.

It wasn't horrible but it was just too full and my paper was getting wrecked and was so disorganized & hard to find certain papers when I was working on assignments. Plus to the left of the paper racks I had hidden tons of 'schtuff' that just needed to be put away & cleaned up (or even thrown out!)

Here's the mess after I emptied the closet completely!

Lovely, huh?

... and here it is AFTER.

My hubby added 2 new shelves (one high up where I put all my photo boxes)

and then another shelf lower down where I was able to put all of my paper.

My patterned paper for Canadian Scrapbooker (is all on the shelf) ...

... and various manufacturers (in the racks below), misc.tools and machines.

As you can see ... I really did purge quite a lot.

I organized my patterned papers by manufacturer because that works well for me.

I put some magazine boxes in my closet and the boxes contain

Embossing folders, dies, chipboard shapes & alphas, fabric, felts, etc.

The shelf in my room needed a bit of rearranging and purging as well

so I moved some of my magazine boxes into the closet to make room for my Cricut E2.

Here's the BEFORE:

(it's not horrible but it needed some cleaning)

... and here's the AFTER:

Well, that's it! I'm exhausted ... but definitely ready to SCRAPBOOK now!!

My Studio

I thought it was high time I shared with you where I spend many hours of my day.

So ... welcome to my little studio.

This is where I love to create hours on hours. I would love to have 2 desks but the room isn't big enough for that because I have my piano on 1 wall. One day I hope to have one though. When we first moved in we went to Ikea & purchased the cabinets above my desk and on the side. I really like them as they can hide a lot - I hate seeing a mess on my desk .. and believe me it happens often.

Behind my desk is a bookshelf that (I am in the process of re-organizing right now) that holds my Canadian Scrapbooker schtuff (ribbons, flowers, stamps,magazines) also my Cricut Expression and cartridges.

To the right side of my chair is a cabinet (from Ikea) that holds my printer paper, ribbons (which I've organized in embroidery floss containers), paints, Coluzzle templates, stamping inks) and on top of it is my printer and another basket full of Canadian Scrapbooker supplies.

The closet stores all of my patterned papers in 2 large racks. I used to have my cardstock (in 12x12 Cropper Hopper folders) in there as well but I moved them to my wall cabinets now.

I store many little embellishments for Canadian Scrapbooker in 1 of the Iris carts. Another Iris cart stores all of my Imaginisce products (from flowers, ribbons, stamps, i-rock & i-top tools & accessories, chipboards, to stickers) as well as American Crafts in 1 drawer. The other iris cart contains some sewing notions in a few drawers, stamps and liquid adhesives, inks, embossing powders, etc.

The baskets above the wall cabinets hold various things such as ribbons, my massive card collection (which I need to go through and use!!!), Stix2 products, my mini album collections and some unaltered items.

I've added the white cubes (from Michaels) that hold chipboard alpha, my brad collection, rhinestones/gems, chipboard , etc. I'm still working on filling up some of the drawers by re-arranging some of the things I have elsewhere. Plus on the bottom sections I hold my Core'dinations cardstock separate from my other cardstock.

Thanks for stopping by and taking a peek at my studio. Hope you enjoyed your visit.

And remember to always .... Live Love Laugh!