Starting to feel the panic...

Ben is supposed to be home in 6 weeks and within 2 weeks of him getting home, we are supposed to have packers here to move us to Illinois. I have SO MUCH that I need to get done and can see that I am quickly going to run out of time (that seems to be an ongoing theme on this blog, doesn't it?!?! LOL!)

Oh, and I have I mentioned lately that he has lost 25 lbs. since he left??!!?! *ack* I had such good plans of being a size 6...okay, well maybe an 8 or 10 when he got home, but instead all I have done is sample every single method of pizza that's available (Jacob and I are HUGE fans of pizza...Ben not so much so we have tried to take advantage of our food freedom,) but you know what... Eating pizza almost every day is not very conducive to getting in shape?!?! I know, I was totally shocked too.

So not only do I have to totally re-vamp my eating habits, but I have got to seriously get this house re-organized too so that we can move. Yesterday, I started with my scrap area (which before Kat was born, was known as our dining room...i.e. the other half of our living room.) Here are a few after shots and I know that it doesn't look like much, but when I started (oh, and for the last 2 months) you couldn't see a single area of table surface clean or any of the floor around my chair.

I store all my cardstock in these plastic trays. This would not be a good long-term solution because in the afternoon, I have sun coming in this window, but it will work for a couple of months until we get our new house where I will once again have a dedicated stamp room (finally! This last year has been rough!) On the table there is my stamp storage of the stamps that I am using right now. Oh, yeah, those are just the ones that I may use over the next couple of weeks. My stamp collection is MANY times larger than that (it's a sickness, but one I really enjoy!) The wood mounted ones go in the wire rack, my Banana Frog stamps in the basket on the left and a few other unmounteds and wood mounted ones in the storage on the right.

Sitting at my feet, is all my paper (and a little cutie if she's awake...although I don't get to sit over there much when she is up for that very reason.) Like my stamps, this is just the stuff that I plan to use in the near future. Nowhere near all of my stash. *eek*, I really shouldn't admit that should I?

Just another shot of little Miss Kat because she is such a cutie. She has 3 teeth, waving now, and starting to stand without support.

These are the shelves that I added to the room yesterday. Before that all this stuff was at my feet and all over the table. Now you see why I had to reorganize. It was a serious mess. There are embellishments here, my Unity stamps, PaperTrey stamps, Rubber Romance stamps and Inque Boutique stamps as well as all my lace trims. In the lap tray on the buffet, you can see all of my punches and then in that blue thingie that you can just see the edge of, I have stored all my small paper pads (5x7, 6x6, and 8x8.)

The best storage method I have found for my Unity stamps has been these small $1 baskets from Target. They are really very small, but each one will hold about 4 kits. Eventually I plan on buying some shoe racks to hold them and I need to label the handles with what kits are in each of them.

A couple of better close-up shots. They are really handy because I can just pull the basket off my shelf that has the stamp kit that I want to use in it and it's all contained in a small footprint to set on my work table.

I hope that you had fun viewing my crafty space, such that it is. I will be back tomorrow with more projects to share.

smiles,

Christi