Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Embrace Your Space

This title is always an article in the Creating Keepsakes Magazine I subscribe to. They have pictures of people's scrapbooking places and how they have organized them. I have always drooled at how great these spaces are and loved how they have it all organized.

Since I have all my scrapbooking supplies in my bedroom it has been hard because my stuff has always taken over the corner of the room. Organizational items aren't cheap and I have slowly tried to get to where I want to be. Zeb has been incredibly patient. :)

Over the course of about a year now, I have been trying to get my stuff organized. Even after Zeb bought me a small bookshelf for my stamps there still was too much stuff for the space. So when Zeb and I saw this 16 cubby bookshelf from IKEA you could say I was pretty stoked.

Slight problem: We drove all the way to Round Rock in our "small" family vehicle and after deciding to purchase the bookshelf Zeb had the bright idea to measure it first. Needless to say the car was an inch too short. We thought, "hey, we'll just get it delivered." Well, that doesn't work when it would cost MORE THAN THE BOOKSHELF!!! Bummer. Luckily Josh and Carol were driving down that weekend and they have an IKEA close to them. So they picked it up for us and drove it here in their truck. THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

This shelving unit was PERFECT and the last thing I needed to organize all my stuff. I love it and think my space has been fully "embraced!" I know a lot of you could probably care less about my "scrapbooking corner" but for me this is a HUGE project that is finally finished! I am so excited!




13 comments:

karin said...

I LOVE being organized! That has been a challenge the past few months but Bryan has been pretty helpful but I still don't know where everything is.

Congratulations on Embracing Your Space!

Katie L. said...

I love to organize things so I am so impressed! You sure do have a lot of scrapbooking things! Way to go!

mistyp said...

Lucky you! Have fun moving it all when the time comes. ;) Wish we could be there to help...thanks again for the help you were to us!!! :)

The O'Briens said...

It looks beautiful! I don't know if people realize just how much stuff you had to organize!! Congrats on achieving your goal of organization!

J and C Fish Family said...
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J and C Fish Family said...

I made a typo on my other one. Oops. Props to Zeb for getting it ready for you. And your welcome. Hopefully we will have room for Carol to do something like that soon.

Angie said...

Looks fabulous. It's a big deal to have everything organized and readily available. Happy scrapbook space for you!!

wurtz said...

It all looks so nice. I love it and after seeing it person I have to say I'm a little jealous. ;) Someday...maybe. I'm happy for you.

Kim said...

Looks great! I wish I was more crafty, but I am not...infact I have only done the first 4 days of Sofia's life. I know very sad! I would love to have cute scrapbooks for my kids to look at someday. I have not even printed off any of Dallin's pictures since he has been born. I know I am a bad mom! I guess I just need to take baby steps and get it done. Maybe we can work out a time and I can use your wonderful talent to help me....let's chat! Keep in touch.

JanelWarner said...

Your room looks great. Life is just so much better when you can be organized.

Michelle said...

I have that shelf for my living room....in that size and one in the 2X4. I use them for bookshelves/decor and a t.v. stand. They're fabulous! That's a great idea to use it for scrap book organization.

Anonymous said...

You know how much I love your scrapbooks - if Zeb is getting frustrated you could always let me hire you to do my girls books. :) Email me if you are interested.

Michelle said...

It looks great! I'm actually a little jealous; I would love to get all our junk organized. Good job!