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Wow 2 in a week.

Check out this lamp shade. Mom and I had fun doing a little stamping on some lamp shades she bought. She had found some lamps at a salvege place but needed one more shade, so what does she do? Goes out and buys a $17.00 lamp shade for a $5.00 lamp. Go figure. Anyways we put some acrylic paint to some chunky foam stamps and had a blast adding dragonflies,butterflies and leaves to the shades. I think they came out pretty darn good. They go with the sheers downstairs and really add to the room. Mom had a pretty good idea this time, not to say that she has bad ideas, just some are better than others.

How Embarrassing

It's been almost a month with no posts. My week that I was suppose to clean and organize my room was a bust. I did get a little bit cleaned up, but it's back to it's same disorganized self, maybe worse. It's so bad that the last few days I've been at the kitchen table working on cards and playing with some new toys. I do have some good news though. DH has agreed to make me a cabinet to store my papers in. He had built something for the PMO office to hold blueprints and it looked so neat and he did such a wonderful job I needed something like it.
Although what he did for them is 4"x4" cubbies mine will be 7 15"x15"x3" shelves with a 6" drawer on top. Lots of Dados and precise measuring but he seems to be pretty good at it. Maybe after he gets done with the first one I'll design some more to build. Each one should only use 1 sheet of plywood so not real expesive.
I hope I get the 1st on by Valentines or at least it will be built and only need stain.

Boxes,Bags,...Bears? Oh My!

Well after much sole searching I made up my mind to take some pics of my room and post them out here for all to see. IT'S A MESS!!!!! As you can see, or not, there's not much room for creating at this moment. I don't even have a chair. I have piles of stuff all over the floor and boxes stacked in the corners. There is a computer in there somewhere. Most of it is still in a box, I took my son's old computer last July when he got a new one and have not hooked it up yet. When will I get it hooked up? Soon, I hope.This is my "desk" it's a 4 foot folding table that we used as a prep table on camping trips. I have way to much junk on it to be able to work efficiently. Some of it is projects from before Christmas.The iris cart holds wood mounted stamps, ink pads, glue boards, chalks, H2O's and more junk. The drawers on top have my adhesives, collage paper, and some embellishments. Then the stuff on top of that. Under my desk is a tote that holds my dearest possesions, my DS' school work,Scout and Karate stuff that someday I will get around to Scrapbooking. No telling what's in the leather suitcase. I havein't looked in there in a while.I think it's time for the file cabinet to go somewhere else, except that's where I keep my stash of chocolate and candy. THis is probably the most organized area in the room. I have each season's embellishments and scrap PP in a gallon zip lock bag hanging on the door so that I can get to it.( I also have a least one large box to go with each bag in the closet. Small rubber stamps are seperated by type in plastic cups. Punchs and tools are stored in the shoe bag on the door.This corner has just got to get cleaned out. Even if DH wanted to use the weight bench he couldn't. There just no room. What started out as a small hobby in a 6x6 closet has started to outgrow a 10x11 room. Does that mean I have to much stuff or that I just need a bigger room. My bedroom's 12x15, hummmmmm that a thought. Just kidding, I like my big bedroom. I guess it means I have WAY to much, I need to downsize a little. As I progress I'll keep adding pictures to prove that I am making progress.>

What did I tell you

I've had 2 days off and haven't even started on my room. I did get 1 tote out that was going to Goodwill but in it's place I put my new toolbox.Well it's not in it's "place". It's sorta sitting there right now. Have to make room for it.
I got this thing at work for less than $9.00. It was a steal. My hopes is to add chile peppers and southwestern things to it to at least make it blend in some. HEY, it is red. For right now I think it will hold my wood mounted stamps (I don't have that many of those anymore, most are unmounted) and ink pads. The little drawers at the bottom can hold small items, like paperclips? Not sure about using them.

Under Construction

This site is under construction at the moment. As the title suggest everything is somewhere in the stamp room, I just can't locate it.
Have you ever had this problem? You know you bought that special paper or had a paticular stamp but when it comes time to use it you can't find it. This happens to me all the time. You would think that if I just got organized I could find everything. NOT!!!! No matter how hard I try I just can't get it together. Here's a pic of my stamp room last year. This is clean an organized compared to what it looks like now. I'm really to embarrased to post a pic now. While I'm on vacation from work I'm going to work on it some. It's my #1 priority.