WEEK 12 - Ribbon, Thread & Fiber OH MY

Yet another topic I don't have a lot of...Ribbon, Thread, Fiber - the original post is HERE.

She suggests to remove the products from the original packages and put them on something so they are all the same size and thus, easier to store.  She mentions that you can organize by size or type or color.  I have most of my embellishments sorted by colors...and it includes these items.  They are all still in their original packages...but mainly because I don't have a lot - I would totally want them all wound on their own matching paper bobbin - but its not worth it for the tiny quantity that I have.

She has a T.O.N. of links for storage ideas....please take a look!

WEEK 11 - Non-Alpha stickers & rub-ons

SO, this week is similar to the last one...hmmm.  Anyway...the original post is HERE.

She talks about purging some of your stickers/rub ons...so, if you find stickers from back when stickers first came out for scrapbooking (you know the ones...the Sandy Lion ones that seemed so amazing at the time...until Joelee's etal showed up) you probably won't ever use them (we all want the NEW thing...right)...so give them away or let your kids play with them...but get them OUT!

Organize them by type or manufacturer.  I only have a few stickers and they are all for kids and I have them all in 2 boxes...and they are both unused pizza boxes...so basically, I have nothing to do with this item either.  PHEW!

WEEK 10 - Alphas

This challenge is about organizing anything that's letters/alphas - and the original post is here.

She talks about the different types (rub-ons, stickers etc).  You can organize by type or by color..she has a bunch of links for ideas on how to store them.

I don't have any of these things because I use my cricut for all lettering.

WEEK 9 - Embelishments

Hmm...I need a way to have my embellishments out so that I remember to use them...but I don't have room...hmmm.

The original post about this topic is HERE

She starts with - how do you want to organize them - color or type?  I think I'm both - I want each type organized by color...but maybe I AM more of a color person...hmmm....I'll have to think about that because I currently have them by type then color....maybe that's why I'm not using them that much?  Wait...I actually have them by color (except buttons - which are so plentiful, that they are together because there isn't room in each "color" box to include the amount of buttons of that color.  GEE...I better go and look how I have them - when I bought all the white photo boxes, I filled them up with embellishments...so I better check it out - and label the boxes - I can see that there are 4-5 white boxes that have no label - bad girl!

She has a ton of links of embellishment storage ideas.  Every and any kind of embellishments you can imagine, she has organized and the photos indicate that she might as well open a LSS in her house!

So, what I have is white photo boxes and the embellishments are by color.  I do, however, have all my buttons in one photo box (each color group in their own baggie).

Here is where they are sitting (three boxes of embelishments).

This is the reach from - I have to get OVER the imagine to reach way over to those boxes...long for me.

 So...I decided to move those white boxes over to beside where that brown paper is above (which is where I have 3 completed albums).  Heres that space now with albums

Here is where the white boxes were moved too

Seems a little closer of a reach.  The boxes b.a.r.e.l.y. fit...but they do.

Here's what is inside those 3 white boxes.

In each of these boxes, I have these tubes (from the bead department - they screw into each other) with tiny embellishments - by color...I just pulled out this silver one, but there's a tube for blue, white, blah, blah, blah.

Here's the box of buttons...which I have never EVER used..hmmm.

I do have a few other embellishments which wouldn't fit into the white boxes...so I have them in this ribbon storage box.  They are all in those bead jewelery tubes.