Deciding how I was going to display my newly sorted stash was definitely the most enjoyable part of the process. One of the difficulties with keeping my stash orderly was due to my lack of a singular creative space where I could work. I have a desk in my bedroom, however while I was at school this was used to do my homework on. In the past 18 months it hasn’t been used for anything more than storing random junk. All my Uni work is done at my apartment in the city, on my desk there and on my laptop. It never occurred to me that my old school desk could be used now as a scrapping station.
I was standing in my room, staring at all the piles of supplies, when the idea hit me. I got to work clearing all the junk from my desk, emptying old notebooks and papers from the drawers and moving books from the shelf. I dug out some empty Prima flower jars, Maya Road tins and cute colourful bowls I had collected and starting filling these with my supplies. It all came together really quickly and when I was done it looked like this:
It is small and it definitely isn’t perfect, but I am oh so happy with how everything has turned out. I like having my supplies out in the open where I can see and admire them. Just glancing up at my shelves fills me with the itching urge to scrap.
My most used supplies are all within easy reach, in bowls, jars and boxes which I can ruffle through when I am searching for that perfect ‘something’ to complete my pages. I particularly like the openness of the bowls and boxes, I can see exactly what I have and easily ‘chuck’ things back if I decide not to use them. (Perfect for a messy, lazy person like myself!)
Below is a little ‘tour’ of my new space.
I have had this lamp since I was about 7!!! It is perfect for casting light across my desk in the evenings. Here I also have a bucket which holds all my most used tools, such as scissors, fine liners, double sided tape, ink etc. The little pink box to the right holds anything which I am saving for a page idea. At the moment it holds some ribbons which will match my old school uniform perfectly and some cherry embellishments to go with a page I plan to make about my grandpa.
My shelves. I had so much fun organising these!!! I am using the maya road tins to store my hearts, stars, photo corners, circles and tabs/pockets. My ribbons are looking pretty all lined up together in the glass jars! The little cups I have had for a while but never used. I figured that they are too cute to keep packed away. Now they are holding little bits and pieces which didn’t fit anywhere else and which I don’t have a lot of. My purple box holds journaling spots/cards, whereas the gold box holds my words. The little coloured bowls currently hold tags, decorative brads and bling, however I will swap these around when I get inspired by certain products.
A close up of my ribbons!
My flowers are sorted by colour in different glass jars I collected over the years.
Here is a wide shot of the corner where my desk is. My clip it up is not going to stay there in the corner. Next to my paper holder is currently a TV which I don’t often use. I am giving this to my brother and getting myself an expedit shelf from ikea. I plan to put the clip it up on top of the shelf and store my extra supplies and albums in the squares.
This is a little shelf to the side of my desk. At the moment it is holding paint, glitter and my paper trimmer. Not sure if it will stay like this when I get the expedit shelf or not though.
And lastly here is a glimpse inside my desk drawers. The top one holds tools. The next two I am using to store extra embellishments which I don’t use as often. They are sorted into baggies by themes such as ‘things with wings’, ‘ephemera style items’ and ‘borders’.
The bottom drawer is just holding my extra paper scraps, but I want to sort through and use as much of these so I can free another drawer for myself.
And that is my new space! There are still a few things I would like to add/change, but for the moment I am extremely happy with it as is. I feel inspired just by looking at it and love that I can scrap without pulling everything out and making a mess. I will admit that I have a few boxes of random supplies out in the shed which still need sorting, but that can be done another day.
What now? Well now I am off to do some scrapping!!!
Anyone else have photos of their scrap spaces they can share? I would love to see!!!
I have returned from a 12 day camping trip to Central Australia with University. This was definitely one of the best trips I have ever been on!!! I had so much fun, met so many lovely people and learnt a lot about Australia which I didn't know before. 
We stopped at Glendambo for lunch and just had to get a photograph with this sign. Very cool!
