After Xmas Craft Clean Up

RitaS · Tue Dec 30, 2008 4:28 pm

Anyone besides me digging out from the mess made while doing the mad dash of homemade gifts for Christmas?

I sure am!! I found my table surface yesterday morning. I then proceeded to look for a LO I had stopped working on when I realized I had 2.5 weeks to Christmas and 3 8x8 albums and a large "canbox" to alter for DD. I also spent much of the day digging and looking for the Shutterfly order that arrived around the 19th, and it was a frustrating search!

Lo and behold - my LO was actually placed where it belonged - in the LOs in progress bin - go figure. I did not think I was really that smart in my sleep deprived state. I was ready to give up on finding the photos. Ahem...they too, were also placed in a drawer labeled for photos. This particular drawer in one of many Sterlite drawers on my workspace - I tend to toss photos inside mid project that are not used and I dont' want anything spilled on them, bent, etc. It has been pretty full - could not believe that I had managed to stash two fat Shutterfly envelopes down in the middle of the stack, but I did. LEsson learned - look thoroughly in the places things are supposed to be first as I can surprise myself.

Now I am trying to get a few more ACOT challenges done. Due to gift making it has not been a good challenge month for me.

What about you - digging out? Spotless as you go? What are you working on?

MamaK321 · Tue Dec 30, 2008 4:35 pm

luckily I didn't make too much of a mess only now my craft table is covered in Christmas mess... empty boxes, bags and wrinkled tissue paper to put away and gifts waiting to be exchanged. Luckily I don't need my table for much

Northern Brat · Tue Dec 30, 2008 4:57 pm

Nope not me! I clean my table after I scrap each time (more often than not) because i won't come back to it if it's a mess. But another reason...I didn't make anything this year except my cards. I didn't do what I said I was going to do this year...oh well, should start now!

Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:03 pm

Nope... I just used a different scrapping area ;P

Janshotgun · Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:35 pm

I have a scraproom in the basement that was almost organized - most of it - just some piles that had to be filed.

But during the crop, I dragged a card table into my office where my desktop is and worked in there. I had a chest in the closet filled with scrapbooking supplies. I used those plastic 12 x 12 envelopes to put each project I was working on. Well, it stayed there and I made all my xmas mini albums there. Then I had to shove everything into drawers when I had all my company for Christmas.

So I'm now almost done taking it all to my scrapbook room in the basement and putting it all away. I now have a laptop I can take with me in the basement if I need to.

So, now I have alot of unfinished projects to work on.

scrap-4-life · Tue Dec 30, 2008 6:48 pm

I have out of town guests staying in my room (bedroom) right now. My craft room is actually my walk in closet so I don't have much access to it. It is a HUGE disaster as well. I really need to get on it! LOL!

ctaylor0312 · Tue Dec 30, 2008 6:50 pm

Ya, I don't have all that of a mess. But then again I don't have that big of a scrappy area

ScrapGoo · Tue Dec 30, 2008 7:06 pm

I have my own little room but I am one of those freaky clean-as-I-go scrappers. I just have to put everything in the right place after I am done or it drives me nuts when I start something new!

SheilaD · Tue Dec 30, 2008 8:13 pm

My craft room is so trashed from projects and new stuff. I usually clean as I go but the holiday sort of took over the space. I'm hoping to dig in tomorrow.

scrapsakes · Tue Dec 30, 2008 8:15 pm

nahh, didn't get to make much homemade stuff and
i too, have got to get back on doing the challenges.

scrapsakes · Tue Dec 30, 2008 8:16 pm

ScrapGoo wrote: I have my own little room but I am one of those freaky clean-as-I-go scrappers. I just have to put everything in the right place after I am done or it drives me nuts when I start something new!

would you like to join my OCD club?

cat1393 · Tue Dec 30, 2008 8:17 pm

Rita, I am working on the Thank You card w/ the glimmer mist. Which reminds me. Need to lug the printer and print the coffee cup!

baltoscrapper · Wed Dec 31, 2008 12:55 am

ScrapGoo wrote: I have my own little room but I am one of those freaky clean-as-I-go scrappers. I just have to put everything in the right place after I am done or it drives me nuts when I start something new!

That's me too! Can't start anything new until the last project is put away!

bluejeans7 · Wed Dec 31, 2008 1:03 am

baltoscrapper wrote:
ScrapGoo wrote: I have my own little room but I am one of those freaky clean-as-I-go scrappers. I just have to put everything in the right place after I am done or it drives me nuts when I start something new!
That's me too! Can't start anything new until the last project is put away!

Me too!

naney1952 · Wed Dec 31, 2008 9:33 am

Definately one of my New Year's projects to get the whole thing organized!

Indy Scrapper · Wed Dec 31, 2008 9:34 am

I am a "keep it clean" as I go kind of gal. I do have a set of cards on my table letting the glitter glue dry, but everything else is pretty much where it belongs.

jaziscrapper · Wed Dec 31, 2008 9:37 am

I am working on challenge layouts to post on my site while I have this week off from work. I thought it'd be a good idea to get a jump on things so my challenge layouts are completed for the month of January. I have one more little project to complete for our DT Reveal tomorrow and then I need to focus on layouts, etc. for our mid-month reveal.

I tend to clean as I go. I know a little OCD-LOL!

writerlady · Wed Dec 31, 2008 12:05 pm

I have one small, collapsable (SP?) table, and it is still covered in glittered snowflakes, Christmas stamps and card-making supplies. Need to clear it off so I can do some of the Cherry Challenges.

Wed Dec 31, 2008 2:09 pm

Well I wish I could say that the mess was from gift making. I did make gifts....but not the scrappy kind. I made five afghans in the last two months. Never thought I would be able to again because of the arthritis in my hands but the message therapy has worked wonders for me.

writerlady · Wed Dec 31, 2008 2:47 pm

Emsdancemom wrote: Well I wish I could say that the mess was from gift making. I did make gifts....but not the scrappy kind. I made five afghans in the last two months. Never thought I would be able to again because of the arthritis in my hands but the message therapy has worked wonders for me.

First - congratulations! I think that's a HUGE accomplishment. Second - knit or crochet? Third - message therapy? Would you be willing to tell me more about that? My hands hurt and I'm a knitter.

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