Seanna (n. shaw-nuh)

Sorting by Color

These are some photos for people who had questions about sorting scrapbook/papercraft stuff by color.

 

 

 
 

The first two are close-ups of my tray of orange stuff, pulled out and on my desk.  Then there is a photo of how it looks all set up in my little white cube things, and then I pulled out my green tray (very full), my blue tray (also pretty full) and last, my yellow tray, which is sort of sad because I don't use a lot of yellow.  As you can see, the orange tray has stuff in it that also has blue in it (or yellow) but I don't care.  I probably won't mind a little blue if I was looking for something mainly orange, but there's a good chance I will not want the orange if I was looking for something blue.  And in the green tray there is a container that has green and blue buttons.  Eventually I will divide them up but I don't think I have even opened that one yet.  The system is to make things easier for me, not to drive me crazy/take a ton of time, know what I mean?  I also don't keep most ribbon in these trays, or individual pens and markers.  That doesn't make sense to me and I have great storage for that set up and working for me already. 

I went with the trays because they fit the space I had available to me.  I wasn't going to buy new bookcases to fit bins when I had these three cubes with open slots ready to go.  The bottom three are black/white, brown and then one for clear stuff that I haven't really used that much.

Hope this is helpful--at the very least, it's photos of a 'sort by color' system that a regular scrapbooker is actually using and finds very helpful and often very inspirational.  I've used lots of stuff I never would have thought of since I adopted this method. 

My birthday present

I'm such a dork.  But a pretty happy one!

Not sure if the punches will stay, probably not.  I had no idea I had that much ribbon on rolls.  It's mostly Papertrey Ink, Stampin' Up! and $1 rolls from Michael's.  I had to trim the grosgrain rolls but I got tired of it so that vanilla grosgrain next to the SU scallop punch is sorta smooshed in there.  I decided my MM paints are used and abused enough not to look like a store but I will probably end up putting them back where they were.  Probably. I have to keep an old pair of pliers on the turntable on my desk to open the metal lids on them, how ridiculous.  See those empty jars?  I just opened the box they came in and got them out.  I have had them for about two years.  I think I bought them with a gift certificate from the scrapbook store when I used to work there.  I will probably put flowers or buttons in them.  On top are my newest Papertrey Ink sets.  I haven't even broken into them yet but I probably will be soon for my swap that's due on Tuesday.

That was fun!  Now I have to putter and adjust.  I just wanted to fill it up and take a photo.  It's nice to have my ribbon all accessible again!

Day Two of The Construction Zone

...bang bang bang drag drag thump.  But we have insulation (huge difference) and a wall skeleton.  The contractor just left to pick up recessed can lights and figure out if we can install ceiling fans in there.  We may need them; there may be a problem with the HVAC ducting or something.  Apparently our system is "huge" but "this house is a biggun," too.  They have to find something called a "damper," and it can be anywhere in the house or underneath the house.  Supposedly the vents to that part of the house were shut off (although it is blowing cold air as we speak), so they have to find the source of that and open it all the way back up.  If there is no source, then we are in trouble (meaning it's not blowing quite enough to heat/cool the room).  Oh, well.  That's why they are super-insulating it and putting in ceiling fans, right?  Right!

Onto more fun topics:   The circles and splotchy things came out a little schmooey but then I decided I sorta liked that about them, so that's the turn they took.  I love love love that little circle of circles stamp.  Defintely going to be a fave.

 What else can I show you?  Well, hmm.  You can see a little corner of the sink in that photo, so let me show you a few more from that area.  But first, can you see that little striped bowl with the green inside?  One dollar.  Target Dollar Spot.  They also have polka dot ones with yellow insides and stripe with blue.  I am going to put them on that three tier green wire server and put some of my single stamps in them, and maybe my cat's eyes stamp pads.  I don't have a ton of those, so it might be good to find them a home.  Most of my ink pads are full size.  I must have 100 ink pads. It's sick.

But in a good way.  OK, here's the (very messy) shot of the sink and that corner of the room.  Do you not love my K&Co Paper Tower?  It goes great in the room except for the "K".  I need to make it into an "R" somehow.  I almost could, looks like.  You can see my stamps all stacked up.  It used to be MUCH WORSE.  I got rid of about half of them.  Don't judge. 
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Then the little weird bathroom sink thing is there.  I've used it about 10 times in the last month, so it's actually been pretty handy. Getting ready to use it again soon, too.  Probably not today, though.  All the contractor stuff is just too distracting.  WAY too distracting.  Eventually the K&Co tower is moving away from there and back with my other paper storage.  It's a pain to have it there but I'm too lazy to make room for it over here right now. 

Oh, and I also store wrapping paper in here.  I used to just throw it in another corner between a tall wall cabinet and my target cubes but then we went to Canada a couple years ago and found this cool silverplated vase thing at an antique shop.  It's tarnished (again) but I sorta like it that way.  Not if it gets much more tarnished, eww, but just a little bit of funk, I sorta like.  Anyway, I did have it on my dining room table and it looked cool but it's hard to put real flowers in it unless you're going supersize, plus I am not a floral arranger like the mom on Six Feet Under, please.  So I happened to stuff my extra wrapping paper rolls in it one Christmas and now it's my wrapping paper center.  Don't look at the dust bunnies.



Well, I think I am needed again for something so I guess this is it for today.  What am I going to photograph when I'm done showing you a little bit of this and a little bit of that in my studio?  I guess there's always the cats....

Finally Photos! This edition: Studio (and cats)

Still messy (look at the stuff on the floor to the left of the chair, go me!  But you can start to get an idea of how it looks.  See that messy surface on the left of the photo?  That's my desk.  It's covered but I should have it ready to work on in just a bit.  The Expedit shelves are still messy but I figured I needed to get over myself and post a photo since it's not horrible anymore.  Look at the kitties.  On the right is Sam--he's a genius.  On the left is Leo--he's just Leo.  They love that I moved my chair in here.  Everything they need during the day is pretty much right here except food and the litter box.  But basically...windows in case there is action and a place to take a nap in the sun.  It's all good for my boy kitties.  They are practically delirious with joy that I finally got with the program and did some furniture rearranging that makes sense.  OK, more photos:

See the Karen Foster holder?  Much better than the Cropper Hopper since it actually fits in the cube.  I think I have some Cropper Hopper paper holders to give away.  Not that many, less than a half-dozen, I think.  I offered them on my friends' message board but if I don't get any takers, well.  I'll have to broaden my offer, won't I?

These are the tiny little jars I was talking about that are 99 cents at Bed, Bath & Beyond.  Are they not the cutest jars??  They also come in black but I wasn't feeling that, so I just got one of all the other colors.  The blue is especially lovely. No, the green.  No, the pink...  (Psst..Tina, click for a better view including the blue one.) The shiny stuff is just Scotch tape holding the spoons on during transit, I think.  What should I put in here?  Embossing powder? Maybe they just need to sit and be pretty.  I'm going to move them to the top of my cool Target drawers, I think.  This is just a temporary resting spot to keep them safe from the cat, who likes to bat things off surfaces whenever possible.  No way he can get to them this way. 

Here's another view of things.  As you can (not) see, there are other parts of the room I'm not really showing you.  It won't be long, though.  One corner at a time.

Look at the stack of stamp sets on the top shelf, far right (I think you'll have to click on the photo to see this; it's cut off here in just the main blog display).  How on earth is that not falling?  It's like that because when we were cleaning up about a month ago, we found more sets and just kept stacking...and stacking...and stacking.  Right under the bottom shelf is a little sink, like a bathroom sink sort of.  It's very weird that it's here, but also handy.  Right now it has six stamp sets and some wood stain and a sponge thing on it. 

More photos later, but at least here's something, instead of me just talking and talking about it.