More clean and purge and clear stamp storage

Hello blog land and happy Monday!  My head cold has finally left me (but currently visiting my daughter) so I had big plans for some card making today.  Then I moved something from here to there, went to put something in a different spot and before you know it, I had 2 bags of stuff that I don't remember aquiring, didn't know why I had it and was pretty sure I would never use, so out it went.  Two hours later I still hadn't started making that card, but I was quite pleased with myself.  I gained a nice chunk of space and found some really pretty paper - have I told you I've got a thing for paper?  I also finished adding some clear stamps into CD cases.  It makes it so easy to keep track of what stamps I have when I'm looking for just the right one.

I store them in this repurposed CD storage cube - lots of room in there!  I have a notebook that I stamp samples of what's in each case and number each case.  Easy peasy!  Maybe tomorrow I'll get to that card :)

Hello craft room, miss me?

Hello blogland!  I'm still battling a nasty head cold but took my box of Kleenex and headed down to my craft room.  Even though I straightened up right after Christmas, I was still in a "clean and purge" mood and went to town.  Where did all this stuff come from and who snuck it into my house?  I like things organized, but I also like to repurpose things so I don't rush to throw "stuff" out.  One thing I did accomplish was to go through a growing pile of scraps.  I had a big pile of 12x12 papers that were used to cut out some Mickey Mouse heads and there was still plenty of usable real estate on this cardstock. 

I took out a pile of my Martha Stewart border punches and in about an hour I ended up with a nice pile of embelishments:

For the smaller areas, I used circle, scallop, square, flower punches and now have a nice stash of them too. By the time I was done with this, I was ready to call it a day and headed back upstairs to make some turkey chili for dinner. 

There's another snowstorm headed towards New Jersey tomorrow, but my Kleenex and sore nose and I plan to spend the day inside, hopefully doing something crafty.

Kleenex and a soft pillow

Hello blogland!  I've been battling a nasty headcold for the past few days and haven't been able to play in my craftroom. Sigh....sniffle....cough.  My best friends today have been a nice soft pillow and new box of Kleenex along with tea/honey/lemon as I read on my Kindle.  My husband made me some chicken soup but I can't taste anything.  Sigh...sniffle....cough. 

I did, however, receive and put together my new Project Life kit by Becky Higgins.  I'm using this to organize all the pictures I take that don't go into specific scrapbooks. For me, using Project life this way is much easier to keep track of the pictures and the who/what/when/where. 

The kits and the separate pieces are available on Amazon but hurry - they're going fast! 

New Year, new cardstock

Hello blogland and Happy New Year!  I hope you've had a nice first day of the new year.....I still have my jammies and robe on :)  Another querky family tradition for New Years Day has been to stay in our pjs, watch the Rose Bowl parade, munch on the rest of the finger food I made last night, finish up the Christmas cookies, and take a little snooze.  Well, we had a modified version today - oldest daughter worked, middle daughter is out with some friends, youngest daughter worked, hubby took a nap, and I made a spiral ham.  My plan was to get into my craft room while the ham was cooking and crank out a few cards and maybe a layout for a scrapbook I've been working on.  But in the two hours it took to make a delicious spiral ham, I discovered I ran out of a craft staple that I've never, ever run out of before:  white cardstock!  I kept saying it couldn't be possible - out of the kabillion pieces of cardstock and paper stacks and designer paper there must be a stash of white cardstock somewhere, but there wasn't.  Impossible I thought, but it was true.  So off to AC Moore I went to pick up some white cardstock.  And by the time I got back, I started sneezing, my nose started running, and I now have a headcold.  So much for playing in my craftroom....so I'm back in my jammies, sipping my Lemon Zinger tea and hoping this passes fast so I can try again tomorrow.  I have two new Unity stamp sets calling me to come play with them.....