Manic Monday May 21 Updated**

Well, I am a bit late but that's because after seeing no SOS last night it really threw me off!! That said, it made me realize how much I rely on this place and all of you!! So, I am going to make sure I am on here more often and hopefully we can all have a good connection through Facebook ... Just in case!!!! My inspiration is all of you and that fabulous gallery...

I am challenging all of you to show us something you have organized in your space that we might find works for us and post a photo here! As soon as I tidy my little space, I will post a photo!

I'm heading to my scraproom in a bit, and I'll take a pic to share with you.

I agree with you Lois!!! I will get a photo later when the sun is shining!!

Oh! I showed you most of my tricks in the forum last week! I don't know if I have any more.. hmm...

Mine isn't finished yet, waiting on DH. Maybe once the kids are home life will get boring again.

This is how I have my Thickers stored. I have them sorted by color families and then stacked sideways in 2 drawers like this. YES, I know -- that's a LOT of Thickers

My friend Stephanie's stash of Thickers would stomp your piles into nothingness.... She has a 3 or 4 ft stack (last I heard...)

I'm trying hard to use mine!

They soon stock up but are quick!!!

Here is a shot of my work area... the rest of the room is not so organized today!!



Have I mentioned how much I love Ikea!! Carla, I love how you've stored your thickers... I have mine in drawers but I don't have too many!

Oh that looks very nice Lois. Is that an expidite unit?
Carla, that is very organized. My letter stickers are just in a drawer, no sorting.

Remember the old cassette tape storage boxes? They are great for small sizzix dies! I did this one up for my "fun sherif" alphas. Lowercase, uppercase and two punctuation fit perfectly!

Carla, I don't have as many thickers but I should sort them by color. That's a great idea.

Lois, I love your room!!! Everything looks so neat and tidy.

Jessica, what an awesome recycle! That's so great that they fit right in there!

Great idea, Jessica!

Lois, I think I need to find an IKEA store! That looks awesome!

Lois , that looks so organized. I wish we had an IKEA.

Great idea, ladies.

Lois - wowza. I'm thinking of something similar for my next scrap room 're-do' ... love it.

Carla, so many thickers - I'm jealous. Love how you have them.

No photo for me, but just yesterday I took an over the door towel bar apart because I wanted the bars for my peg board. Only one problem, I should have purchased a new towel rack first because yesterday I could not find one in the stores! LOL

I use sketches a lot!!! I often print them off and then I would have this pile of papers. I started cutting them out and glueing them to an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet and keep them in a binder. I divide them by number of pics on the page, e.g. all the sketches with 2 -photos are together, all the two page LOs etc.

There are a few designers that I keep together e.g all the Page Maps are together.

Making my own sketch book, girls love to borrow it at crops.

Here is an example of a couple of pages.



I am in the process for doing this with stamps, too. I have a lot of SU, CTMH and others that I have picked up over the years. I either cut the pic from the catalogue or stamp it on paper, they are arranged by categories, that way if I loking for a particular stamp I can quickly find if I have it or something similar.

That's awesome Linda! I really like that idea. What size do you print them off as?

spuccini wrote:

That's awesome Linda! I really like that idea. What size do you print them off as?

It is whatever size they come out of the printer, I have never tried re-sizing them. I just glue as many will fit on a page - some pages have only have 3 others may have 12-15.