Week 30 - Enjoy your beautiful and organized new room

TEE HEE we should be done now...ha ha ha  The original post is HERE.

OH MAN...I wish I had a space to decorate!  I'd keep it fairly neutral and then have a few accessories that are, well,...blue...big surprise...blue.  I'd like to have enough space that I'd be able to use some of it to display photos or pretty things, a nice clock...rather than just used for storage.

Enjoy your new, beautiful, organized crafting space - I know I will...IF I EVER GET ONE!  ;)

Week 29 - Albums

This is a new step from last year since I didn't notice it as a separate item in the original girl's posting of organizational steps.

I have no idea how they should be stored...flat...standing up...what?  I have mine flat but it does make it difficult to look at the one on the bottom...so I really don't look at them at all.  They are also different color albums...although the colors kind of make sense - green is pre-baby, light blue is a holiday album, yellow is baby's 1st year albums...you get the idea.

I'd love for them to all be the same with labels on the spines and standing up...like books...but that would take too much work and I don't have the space to have them standing up and displayed and able to be looked at.  All that work and effort and no one can flip through them.

Week 28 - Cards and card making supplies

Another small post for me...see the original post here.

I keep all handmade cards that I receive and they all fit nicely in a photo box from Michaels - and still have lots of room to grow.  I don't make alot of cards - really only for Christmas and one-off thank-you notes - so I pretty much only make the quantity I need - so nothing to store.

The original poster has a lot of ideas - please go look if you have a lot of cards to deal with. 

Week 27 - FONTS

This post (original post is here) is about organizing your computer fonts.

She says to NOT install all fonts (which I started to do already) - it slows down your system.  She suggests if you have thousands of fonts to maybe have folders for the different types - san serif, blah blah.  I don't have thousands (well, I'm not really sure)...and she suggests to get "the font thing" for organizing (which doesn't work with Vista) - which I also have...but I don't think I've used.

She says to unzip any fonts and put all fonts in their one location.  I have all my fonts in 1 location, but I think I've kept them all in their zip file....hmmm.  She says to print them out so you have them in 1 location and can look at them easily and see which ones you want to use.

Remember to back-up your font file - wouldn't it suck if you lost your fonts when/if your hard drive crashed?! I lost my personal printing font because our computer crashed...boo hoo.

Currently I only really use 2 or 3 of my available fonts, so I'm just going to leave it alone.

Week 26 - clean?

HA HA....see the original post here....keeping it neat...baa ha ha ha ha ha.

She suggests that when you purchase new things, they can only go into your workspace if you immediately put it where it belongs - ha ha .. when I get something new, the bag lands on the floor!  I clearly need to get my act together.

She also says that after you finish a project, you can't start another until cleaned up everything from the current project..oopps...I fail on that one too.  I keep all the 'scraps' from the project in a pile...which I add new scraps from the next project and so on until there isn't any room...THEN I put them away.  I guess I'll have to try to stop that.  Have a pristine workspace before you start the next project...BAA HA HA HA!  I barely have room to work on a current project...there's no place for pristine...see, I NEED a scrapbook area!

She also talks about organizing your albums.  If you want to keep them together (I like that), they don't have to be in your craft area.  Gee - I wish that I had a place I could put them that wasn't in my craft area, but I don't.  She changed all her albums so they look identical...DROOL DROOL!  I would love that....but alas, its not a priority....she even has the spine labeled...wow...what a concept...I have to open an album to see what is in it...except those that are obvious from the album cover.  I also have mine stacked, rather than like books - not sure why, but I think its because I didn't want to waste the space that the 12x12 album didn't fill...if I stack them, I can get more in the space.

IF I ever get a scrapbook space...I'm going to try to get all my albums identical...but I dread the thought of the work required to do it...as it is now, I wait until I have an entire album's worth of pages ready before I fill an album - that's one part of scrapbooking I hate - filling the albums.

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

See the original post here.

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.

The original post is here.

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?