Stamping & Scrapping with Jen

A New Office (Actually it's a newly cleaned & organized office)

I realize it's been a few days since my last post - I've been busy organizing, cleaning, and working on 20th Reunion stuff.  I thought today, now that it's just about all done, I'd share some photos.

My husband took a few days off earlier this week, and one of the things he did was build me shelves in my office.  As many of you know, I moved my office down into my stamping room/family room/basement about a year and a half ago, and it's been a work in progress ever since.  I'm the kind of person who needs to "live" in a space for awhile and then decide what I can do to improve it.

So, I asked him to build me shelves where I could store my Sizzix dies, Cricut cartridges, and some books.  With just the addition of the shelves, I could do so much more!!  It freed up space on my cutting table, under my cutting table (which was where the dies were previously), and on my desk.

So here are the shelves:

And here are a few other shots of the office side of the basement: 

 

I still have some more to do, but it's SO much better now!!  Of course, the challenge for me will be to keep it this way.  I'm really going to try!!!

And on another note, I have been working on setting up a blog for my 20th Reunion, and it's been lots of fun putting that together.  If you are curious, you can check it out at http://krhsclassof90.com.

So between those two things and getting ready for back to school, I've been a little busy!!  Once school starts (which is Thursday for my 2nd grader and next Tuesday for my preschooler), I'll be back to some more regular blogging.

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More "Green" Organizing

When you are a demonstrator for over six years, you accumulate A LOT of cut cardstock.  And I save every last scrap.  Earlier this week, I was preparing for my All Occasion Card Class (which was yesterday), and I decided to go through ALL my already-cut-cardstock and organize & consolidate it.  Here is what my basement floor looked like at its worst.  This was Monday night.

See that empty spot in the middle; that was where I was sitting.  And notice that huge pile of cello bags in the photo on the top (upper right corner)?  My guess is that there were at least 300.  And you will be happy to know that I saved them all (even though MANY were written on) and I plan to recycle them by reusing them.  Sorry Stampin' Up! - it will be a LONG time before I need to order cello bags again!!!!

So here is what all that looks like now:

Can you believe it???  Pretty impressive, huh?  And I can't tell you how much more USEFUL it is to me this way!!  It is so refreshing to look at these 2 little boxes of cardstock.  Before they took up over 10 different bins; now, just two.  As silly and mundane a task as this was, I feel so MUCH better about how it looks & how I can make use of these pieces.

Come back tomorrow when I start posting some of the cards from this class.  I'll be sure to let you know if I was able to be "green" and use "already-cut" pieces.

Have a great day!!

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