Scrap Rack road trip to scrap camp!

Had an awesome time this weekend scrapbooking at Scrap Camp.  We have a great group and you cannot beat this view of Lake Huron. 

I ended up taking two ScrapRack bases with me and about 2/3 of my full spinders.  I ended up using A LOT of supplies from them.  I even used a few new supplies I got in my goodie bag.  Now I don't have to incorporate those into my ScrapRack.  

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It is midwinter break for the kids and I am hopeful that I will get my new 2x4 Ikea Expedit assembled so that I can unpack my ScrapRack onto it this week.  My husband leaves for 5th grade camp next week and I have trouble sleeping when he is away so I may as well scrapbook and it is always easier to scrapbook when you are organized.

I will post the pictures of my Expedit/scrap rack holder when I get is all set up.

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I think that this one will be one of my new favorites:





Or maybe this one:



It is so hard to decide.

The Return of the Albums

When my husband purchased scrap furniture, I moved all of my albums to my scrap area which is in the basement.  I have found over the last 18 months or so that now no one looks at the albums any more unless they want to see something specific.  So, I put one of our book shelves that was not being currently used back in the livingroom and moved the completed albums back to their rightful location.  Lo and behold kids started looking at them again.

 I have some empty shelves.  Two of them are going to hold Ikea drawers for all of the youngest daughter's art supplies so that she can use them on the work table under supervision.

 I have a bunch of stuff to put away from the work table.  This is some ribbon and a gift tag that I rescued from being thrown in the trash.

Here is my completed scrap rack which will soon be disassembled so that the table can be removed and replaced by a 2x4 Ikea expedite shelving unit on its side.  It is not too late to join the ScrapRack 2013_Resolve_To_Get-Organized_Challenge.  It is only in week two and you can see the previous weeks webinar.  My mom listened to the first week.  I am excited to see if she can get her stickers organized.  She told me this was her biggest problem area.  You have to start somewhere.
 

That is the 4x4 Ikea expedite shelf which holds a bunch of scrapbooking supplies.  It needs to be cleaned up.  The purple boxes on the top hold memorabilia by year.  I am finding that I need a few more.  I really wish that they would fit on a shelf.

Pages in progress.  The wedding reception.

Here is a view of my whole scrap area.  It is just the right size for me (and a kid if they so choose).

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The Calm After The Storm, ya right!

Now that the holidays have finished it is time to clean up the mess that is left behind.  My scrap area is also our wrapping area, so I have been putting all of the bows and bags and papers back in their appropriate place.

We went shopping at Ikea to purchase a new mattress, a night stand for a child, and a 2x4 Expedite for my scraprack so I can get it off the large table it is currently occupying.  It is a folding table and we might want to use it some time and the expedite will take up less space in general.  Now we just need to put it together.  Once it is completely assembled and my scraprack is reassembled and finish clearing off my scrap space I will post some finished pictures of my space.

Over the last week I have completed two scrapbook pages from my sister's wedding.  And, the ribbon was swiped from my daughter on her way to the trash.  Love using ribbon, especially free ribbon.  Why fill a landfill when I can fill a scrapbook?  I also used this "family" velum right out of my scraprack.  Would have not thought to use it except that it was super easy to find under my titles tab.

Now I am done with the wedding and moving on to the reception.  I have another super cute recycled ribbon I might have to use on those pages.

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I will post photos of my completed ScrapRack as soon as I get the rest of my stuff put away.  I am trying to decide which part of my house to organize next.  I am thinking that the kitchen would be a great room to work on.  I don't have very many cabinets and there are so many things that are not used in there.

I would love to hear what everyone else would move on to from an organized craft area.

There is a rainbow after the storm!

I really thought that I would be completely done with my organizing by now, but I am still plugging away.  I only get about 15 minutes a day to work on it.  The point is though that I will be done soon.  Every day my scrap area looks better and if do need to work on a project I do know exactly where I can find those products.

Now that I have gone back and added some items, that I originally missed in my organizing, to their appropriate sections, all I have left is my rainbow section.

I had to turn it sideways in the bin to keep it from flopping around.  Here is my ScrapRack with the just rainbow section not in it.  I am temporarily using a folding table. This is three base units and I will not be buying a fourth.  I really want to use up my stuff.  I will eventually purchase a 2x4 expedite shelf from Ikea and put it on its side with the ScrapRack on the top.  All of my scrapbook area furniture is from Ikea and I have two expedite shelf units as well.
 

I have decided to leave my solid paper nicely sorted on their shelves.  I have my Creative Memories paper separate from other papers by color already.  No reason to change that since it is easily accessible from my scrap chair.  I am pulling the pattered paper out of the bottom shelves in incorporating them into my rainbow section as I get to each color.
 

I have been putting the little bit of glitter and buttons and flowers that I have in little bags that I bought in the jewelry making section at Walmart.  I got 100 bags for around $2.00 and they are handy for small embellishments.  The glitter bottles do not stay in the ScrapRack pages well.  They are just too bulky.  I marked each back with a sharpie to indicate the glitter brand and color, just in case I ever need that information.

Here is the front of my yellow section.  I am onto green tonight and/or tomorrow.
 

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Borders are finally sorted!

I spent a little bit of time each day over the past five days sorting all of my CM snippets into my border section of the scraprack.  I had so many I ended up having to pull off three spinders and move pages around to make sure everything fit so my spinders were not overloaded.  I actually had a little room on the base to add a spinder.  My first rack has 9 spinders and that is certainly all that will fit.

I ended up emptying a bunch of folders that I just had sitting on a shelf.  Now they are in the recycling.

I have moved my ScrapRack off of my work table so that I have room for present wrapping and whatever other project for which I need that table.  I try to keep it clear so that I always have space to work when needed.

And now I am back to my color section.  More on that in my next post.  

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