couple projects happening here

I've been working on some stuff and sad to say not scrapping. But still being creative is a good thing. With my immense love of all things posted on Pinterest, I have been finding many projects and things to try. Some I may someday get to... others not so much but fun to have them if I ever feel the need. Anywho I found this one pin and knew I had to do it for Valentine's day. 

To start our crayon melting project, one must first strip a few boxes of crayons down to their bare naked selves. Big time hint here for anyone attempting this... use the cheapo RoseArt Crayons and not the Crayolas. Trust me. Those wrappings are down right frustrating to get off! Both of the kids gave up and left me to finish unwrapping four boxes of 24 crayons by myself. Oh the things I do for my kiddos. I left out the black and brown crayons since I didn't want the end product to be too dark and heavy feeling for Valentine's Day.

I found these heart silicone muffin trays in the dollar section at Target (they were $2.50 but so totally worth it) Here are the bits and pieces getting set to go into the oven. I believe this is a little bit before I had finished filling them in but was so ready to get them in the oven, I didn't take one right before cooking.

Here they are after I popped them out of the trays. I will say that I cooked them for about 17 minutes at 230 degrees. They are still kinda chunky looking and have since re- cooked them and they look much better. I need to take another picture of the whole collection for Alex's class. But I was pretty proud of myself for not only finding the idea on Pinterest, but actually doing it!!  I didn't scrub the trays clean since they were not that expensive and who knows... there is always next year!!

Now to figure out exactly how the tags for these will look. I have some ideas so that will be another post.

Then today, I dusted off my Silhouette (aka Sybill) and created a 100 cut out for Alex's 100th day of school celebration. We had started thinking we could punch out 100 Mickey Mouse heads and place them on a piece of cardstock. Which he thought was cool until he decided that would be a ton of work and hard on his fingers. Then he came up with the wonderful idea of 100 smiley face stickers! And wouldn't you know it, we had purchased such animals a few weeks ago on one of my shopping trips to Michaels. Even better, the package we purchased had 112 smiles in it!!

Sybill all done cutting. I bet she was quite happy to be plugged in and running. It's been way too long for her. I feel bad that I use her more for holding my agenda and my notebook than for cutting. What a waste!

This pile would be the reason that she is not used more often! I had to move all of this before I could cut since the paper has to be able to move freely back and forth. I need to clean my desk off in a big way. It's on the list. oh what a disaster. BTW... that is one small section that is overly piled up, the rest of the room looks about the same. oh the shame...

And here is Alex's project!! I glued the numbers down for him and had to help him get the stickers off the sheet (and they were hard for me and I have nails!!) But he put them all on himself. It really shows him. My happy little guy. We are ready for Tuesday!! (as long as there are no snowdays!)

Well... I need to clean up a bit around here. sigh... I don't wanna but I think I would like to have some order and then maybe I can be more creative with more space to work!!

i did it!!

oh such a happy happy day! I finished cleaning my scrap room. I am back to being able to be creative. Of course first I must clean the house as I was totally neglecting it while finding my space. Then I shall be creative again!! Thanks to my family for understanding.

Here's the bulletin board reworked. I took a ton of stuff off of the board and put it into my embellishment mini tackle boxes. Worked lovely and now I can actually see what is on the board ready to be used. Also cleaned up my magnetic board above it.

Behind the monitor are most of my pictures. I think I have two more boxes tucked away but these are the recent ones. I best get busy!! Yes there is a window behind all that fun stuff but it doesn't open and there is no light that comes into it so it is useless and doesn't need to be seen. Took care of that!!

My ribbon storage. At least most of it. The top containers hold the spools of ribbon and the drawers below hold the small bits and pieces along with my floss. Now I can see what I have!!

My paper corner. I am going to rework it once I buy some more cropper hoppers. My goal is to get all of my cardstock onto the bottom shelf with some pattern paper on the top shelf. Love that my flowers are out and organized. I think I will be using them more now that I can see them. Those are dollar store jar finds. I need one more as I totally forgot I had brown flowers!!

Look at that!! A desktop. Who would have known there was one there?? Certainly not I!!

Under my desk. Disney stuff, two drawers for each child for their mementos, one drawer each for Christmas, Halloween/ Fall and Easter/ Spring. One drawer for my Vegas trip I need to finish scrapping. A drawer of my stuff to scrap. And a drawer of foam stamps. Accordian files hold paper scraps. The large one on top of the paper shredder has my cardstock scraps.

Bottom shelf along with some rolls of ribbon on two dowels. They are larger spools of ribbon so I don't have to change them as often. The blue bin holds my bling. The purple bin holds my chipboard alphabets. The white cannister holds my ATG refill tapes.

Top shelves. My embellishment tackle boxes. I need a new label maker but they are at least labeled now so I can tell what I have. The plastic envies to the left of the Belle mug are full of completed layouts. Need to spend some serious time putting pages away!! As you can see I have a few stacks (more to be seen in another picture)

There's the whole shot of my stacks. I really need to start using them up.

My Sizzix storage. I reorganized a few of the cubbies as I had lost some things deep in the back. Glad to have found them again!!

Storage under the Sizzix cubbie. Again... they need labeling. But they are all cleaned out and ready for action. And can you see the floor?? Yes I had a floor under all that junk. woohoo!!
My two other bulletin boards. They now have specific uses. The top on holds my directions for frequently made gifts as well as my color wheel and an adorable picture of me and hubby with Super Grover. The bottom one holds stuff for the school. Box tops for education, ribbon scraps and paper scraps for the art department for their collage bin.

Thanks for taking a peek! It feels so good to have room to move here. I have been only able to sit at my computer and get in and out. That's it. Now I can move my chair around! It is lovely. Hoping to be posting something scrappy soon!! Have a great weekend!!

my impending project

I have been slacking... BIG TIME!! I have let my scrapping room become a pit. Seriously it is hideous. As punishment for it getting so bad, I am posting pictures of my nightmare. This room is 6X9 and I have barely enough room to step through the door and sit at the computer. Scrapping?? ha! That is not happening here for awhile! My desk is lost beneath a mound of stuff. So here is my shame. I have begun today to reorganize and claim my space. Gonna take a few days but it will so be worth it.

As you walk into my room, this board is next to my computer. It needs to be redone. There are things on there I never use. And some I totally forgot were there! oh the shame.

Computer area. Needs a serious make over there!!

My printer area and main paper storage. Needs reworking too!

My desktop!! Not much getting done there. But it sure does hold a lot of stuff!!

Mess on the floor. Some of it is from a crop a few weeks back. Some is just been dumped there. And some is part of the reorganizing I am going to be doing. The cream colored bag on the floor, is what broke my little piggy toe this weekend. Dumb bag.

Shelves. Totally need reworking of them. They are not working for me anymore!

Sigh... more stuff that needs to be moved and organized.

Two more boards that hold not much. And what they do hold.... may not even be needed!!

That is a tour of my pit. It is going to be a long road, but I know I can do this! I shall be scrapping once again in a clean space! Wish me luck. But for now, I need to run to pick Kira up from Girl Scouts!!