New Scraproom Storage

Hi, everyone!

Mr. Lifeguard and I have been busy little bees this past week! First, we cut out another 45 house albums & placed what I am hoping will be our last chipboard order for a while {fingers crossed; we'll see how it goes ~ if we need to order more chipboard for you guys, we will!}. So far we have cut out 90 house albums. At 11 chipboard pieces per album, that is 999 die cuts. It's taken 300 sheets of 12"x12" chipboard to get this far, all of which I personally cut down into the 11 smaller pieces we needed. Par-TAY! :D

Despite all this die cutting fun, I still think the album is pretty darn adorable. It must be a testament to its extreme cuteness that I still like it after having cut out, packed & shipped so many of them.




After we got finished with those, we headed off to IKEA. Storage has been a little sketchy in the scraproom lately, I am not going to lie. I have had several projects going on at once & I have been keeping the materials for each project in a 13"x13" box. Well, the boxes were starting to multiply & then the boxes had boxes and there were piles within piles. It got to where you could hardly see the floor. So we headed off to IKEA and made a couple purchases.

The first thing we did was replace one of the legs on my VIKA system desk with the VIKA ALEX drawer unit:




I used these drawers to conquer my desk piles. There are six drawers and they hold all kinds of cool stuff that I use frequently & now will have right at my fingertips: flowers, inks, stamp blocks, stickles, liquid pearls, border punches, circle cutter, brads, charms, dies, etc.




This is a photo of one of the drawers open. The doors are just shy of being wide enough to store 12"x12" paper, but they hold a ton of other stuff. This particular drawer has my favorite Apple Pie Memories stamp blocks, my embossing inks, the new Jenni Bowlin inks from Ranger that I am kind of in love with right now, my Eclipse masking tape, my white CTMH ink pads & my four jumbo Archival ink pads.

Next we purchased the ALEX drawers. This is sort of IKEA's twist on a map chest & it is great for scrapbookers. They are very wide ~ wide enough to easily hold 12"x12" paper + tons of other stuff.




I have been calling them my project drawers because I am keeping all the supplies for each of my current projects in one of these six drawers. Take a peek at the Hometown Summer drawer:




Look how bright, happpy & fun that drawer is! It's so inspiring to see all the elements I have gathered together in one drawer all laid out like that. Not to mention, it is WAY better than having it all stuffed into a box that was shoved on the floor and I tripped on ten times a day.

It was a very busy week, with a lot of running around and manual labor, but I couldn't be happier with the progress we made on the albums and on the scraproom!

Today is Thursday, so I have my UStream shows. I am live every Thursday from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. and again from 9:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. on my UStream Channel: Live on the {Scrap}Beach!

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We're going to continue working on the Pink Paislee "Butterfly Garden" album today. I have some fun things planned for this one! Take a little peek at the project drawer for this album:




How lovely is that!? Can't wait until 2:00!

~Kathryn :D
totally organized