Three years later.....

I see it's been some time since I got on here. Much happened here and it will take some time to catch up. All of it good. The first thing I need to do is get the finished pictures on here of my very first "official" scrap room. I love it! Sometimes I spend hours just sitting in here doing nothing creative, which is not a good thing, but this space makes me so very happy.

Getting there!

It's so close, but not complete yet! My husband has finished making the counter around the room.



I'm a little upset that we had to change it up somewhat. That's what happens when you make plans! That little bump in the floor is making him very nervous, so we moved the entire paper cabinet over about 18 inches. By doing that I lost my corner to sit in to work on the cricut.



While placing the Jetmax cubes where I thought they would go, I noticed a few things looking off. Now that I lost my cricut corner, the opposite end of that wall had a corner to sit and work on the printer, but it looked off center to me, so I decided to close that one up also.



Now the two large open spaces in the corners are gone, replaced by just a little opening, something I have to figure out over time, but meanwhile, I now was able to add 4 more cubes!



I moved my cubes around on the window wall so I had 2 on each side, making my area to sit and sew, just a little smaller.



All in all I'm happy with the placement of the cubes right now.

I now have a total of 34 Jetmax Cubes in my room!

My plastic paper holders came from Display Dynamics. I ordered 40 of them, 7 were broken or cracked. They wanted pictures of them as proof, which I found a little funny because really, have you ever tried to take a picture of a clear plastic thing?



I did it though, and am waiting for replacements. They also did not honor the price they quoted me on Facebook, so I am waiting for them to adjust that. I know I will love my plastic shelves, but dealing with them was a little tough. Emails went unanswered, and I had to push them to get any information, including the fact that they charged my credit card and took a very long time to get me the receipt.

Best of all, my window treatment arrived! I am going to hold off on pictures of it, (hint: if you study today's pictures you might just see a sneak peak) just remember that I do not like the view out the one window in this room. It's of the side of my neighbor's very dirty house, and decaying pool and yard.

I am slowly bringing things in, I know I will change my mind a dozen times before I settle on exactly where everything will be located.

Monday the formica arrives!!

A little of this...A little of that

I have not stopped working on this room, it's a nonstop adventure! My husband thought it would be a good idea to move the Memory Making Embellishment Centers into the new room while there was nothing obstructing us. Only problem was, they were loaded to the gills! So in the midst of this mess, I started to take things down...



As with everything involving this room, it wasn't just a matter of removing the embellishments, it meant taking things off the shelf above it so that could be removed! Due to my husband's fear of things falling off the wall, he used the embellishment centers as a brace underneath the shelves that held my paper and books.



Now that meant I had to empty the shelves also! We are not talking about much room up here!!

At first it was an overwhelming feeling, where do you start? I just sat and stared for quite some time. Eventually I got up and moved, started by boxing the ribbon, then the embellishments, then realized, I might as well just leave the flowers around my desk so I can see what I have when it's time to put it all back.

Then I put all the paper from one shelf on the floor, when the center was taken down, I just moved the stuff from the other shelf onto it. Problem now was just what my husband thought, the shelves were starting to sag!

Meanwhile he decided to start putting together the paper storage unit he is building. While he did that I thought, why not save time and start organizing cardstock.

I guess you can imagine that disaster. Is it red or pink, is it blue or green, or maybe grey. How about orange, yellow, gold or even brown? Worst of all is WHITE! Is it white, or is it cream?

It took two days, but I cleaned it up, stored it back in the Cropper Hopper Holders, with scraps in the small ones with labels on front telling me what color is inside.



While concentrating on what color is what my husband decided to put up the embellishment centers. Now I know that two hangers on the back of an item can make it stronger, but do you know how hard it is to get that up on the wall, times three! Increase the problem by making the hooks on the back different on each one, including different heights on the same center! Paper had to wait as the two of us spend the next two hours attempting to get them up, centered, and level!

The end result was a little off center, but really, I'm just relieved to have it done!