Week 25 - Negatives

WOO HOO - I have all of my negatives D.O.N.E - Well, I think that I do and I started working on this a long LONG time ago - before I got my digital camera and I had so many negatives and they were driving me crazy, so I bought negative sleeves that fit in a regular binder and spent hours and hours organizing them and labeling them...and the 3" binder is FULL - but it sure is easier to deal with 1 binder than bags and bags of negatives....and...and

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Week 24 - Memorabilia

I always come home from trips with a big envelope FULL of pamphlets, tickets and other memorabilia from trips.  I just recently purchased an accordion file box with a handle, to put these kinds of things in.  I'm going to keep items sorted by trip...I can't think of any reason to do it any other way.  I haven't put all memorabilia in it yet...but as I accumulate new things (like stuff from PJ's school), I'm putting them in.

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Week 23 - Templates

Templates - seems easy enough...sort by type or by theme...done.  I have a few Coluzzles and a few deluxe cut layout templates (which are now discontinued), some lettering templates and I think a few other templates (for folding).  The ones that are letter size, are stored in the same place as my nestabilities (binder) and my Deluxe cut ones & alphabet ones are in a bag near my crop bags (I used to use them a lot, so had them in a really convenient place).

See the original post here when she has links of ideas on how to store these.  I guess I have to figure out if I want to keep them....they don't take up a lot of room, but if I'm not using them...why are they here?

Scrapbook layout - 2010 Fun with Papa

PJ took his 1st escalator ride with Papa - he loved it and they had to go up and down the same one several times. 

I had to reformat my Gypsy so all my files are gone...so knowing which carts were used will be a challenge.  I believe the font is Out of Character and the frame is from fancy frames...but I could be totally wrong.

Week 22 - Dies for Die cutting machines

This is yet ANOTHER easy one for me...other than embossing folders, I think I have 3 dies - and they came with the cuttlebug...so I don't really have an issue with this.  I'm SO GLAD that I held off on die cutting systems until the cricut was born...I certainly wouldn't have had room for all of those wooden dies...NOR the cute little metal ones...that, and I like to be able to change the sizes...so dies are so NOT my thing.  Actually, I do have a couple more dies that match with a stamp set...and they are kept together with all my stamps

Having said that...I do, however, have some nestabilities that I have N.E.V.E.R used!  They are stored in pocket pages on magnetic sheets (looks like slide-in photo sleeves) and are in a binder somewhere in the room - and I think there might be a mailing pouch full of unopened ones...somewhere in here...I really need to determine if I'll bother keeping them or not.  I can see they could be useful...but because of my limited space, they are out of sight because they'd be too hard to use (I don't even have room to use my cuttlebug for embossing).

See the original post about this here and she has several links for ideas on storing these bulky items.

Week 21 - Pens and Pencils

Did you notice how these are getting shorter and shorter....I guess I don't have very much to organize because a lot of these topics don't apply to me (or apply, but because I have so few of the items, I currently don't have a storage issue with them).  

So...in my pea-sized brain...these should be stored by type.  She does mention by color - but that just seems odd to me, probably because I have so few.  I do, however, have my copics together....AND by color...ha ha!

I have a couple of watercolor pencil sets and they are still in their packages and stored that way (and are currently buried in those iris storage keepers ... and now that I think of it, I also have some markers from Michaels that I bought a long time ago...hmmm...I wonder if they are all dried up - they weren't that special.

The original post about this is here.  She includes links to various ideas on how to store these items.

This is what I do with my copics - I originally had them in unused baby wipe boxes, but they were cumbersome and I wanted something easier to transport.  THEN I put them in the plastic clam-shell boxes that used to hold my Stamping Up stamps (I have them all removed from the wood, so I didn't need any of that any more).  They were fine...BUT I found these fantastic boxes with a lid in the bead aisle at Michaels and I LOVE them!!! 

Since I took that photo - its changed a bit...I bought 1 more container and use 4 of the narrow sections so I have them sorted better (by color) and moved the larger section with the other larger section to put my Stampin Up Ink spots in it.  LOVE LOVE LOVE!

Week 19 - Chipboard

HA HA HA - this is going to be a S.M.A.L.L post - I don't have ANY chipboard!

The original post about this step is HERE.

She talks about whether you keep them in the form that you buy them in or pop them out of their holder and store based on image or manufacturer.  I just don't "get" organizing anything by manufacturer...probably because I just buy what I like and that goes together, regardless of the "manufacturer".  I know the minute I change and actually care about this, the manufacturer that I like will go out of business and I'll be pi$$ed off.  

I think its obvious that chipboard alphabets need to be on their own/together...and I guess people have full sheets of chipboard too (which, I must confess, I had some, but I used it and they are gone...I couldn't cut them properly on my expression and I just don't have the patience or desire to figure it out)....she suggests to store them like paper...which makes sense to me (not that anyone cares what I think about this, since I don't "have" chipboard).

Her post is really long about this...so please go look there if you want more info about "methods" of storage.

Week 20 - Diecuts

Another quick one for me...now that I have a cricut, I only cut what I need rather than having stashes of die cuts.  I do, however, have a 12x12 paper mailing box (aka, pizza box) full of some that I purchased long before I got a cricut.  There are several duplicates because I bought them from a company that was going bankrupt and thought...heh, if we have a 2nd child, I'd want to have these cute things in both scrapbooks...so, we only have 1 kid, so now I have duplicates - I also have 2 Santa stockings...so they would coordinate if we had the 2nd kid...sigh.  Anyhow, back to the real discussion....the original post about organizing die cuts is here.

Oh, I actually do have a few more die cuts - ones that I made with my cricut.  Last year when we renewed our membership in the circle, they gave you access to ALL of their digital cuts for free for a certain amount of time.  While a nice gesture, it was odd for me because how do I know what color (or size) to cut things out as when I'm not at the point of scrapbooking those particular photos.  I did cut a few more generic things and and I have all of them saved in plastic baggies.

She talks about how you will organize them...which might be the same way as you organize other embellishments...theme, type, color...whatever.    I think I'd put them by theme...unless they weren't theme related, then probably by color.  She, as always, has links to various ideas for storage.

SO...go at them...dig them out, organize them...and if there are some old and nasty ones - get rid of them!!

have a great week!