Cleaned up, Organized and Ready to SCRAP!

I bet my friend Susanne probably has one of the most organized scrap spaces out there...I have never seen it  but she is always the one who inspires me to get my own mess organized with her challenges.  I accepted her challenge once again and am feeling good about having gotten it done...AND by the deadline, too!

If you are a glutton for punishment, or just want a good laugh at my expense, you can see what my space looked like BEFORE I started working on it by click HERE to see the thread that was started over at The House of Paper (you will probably have to scroll down a bit)...my desk was such a mess I would typically end up out on the dining room table to scrap...oops!

Okay, so here is my newly cleaned up space...even my husband commented on how well it looked and how maybe he needed to get his butt in gear and clean up HIS corner of the office -- I could post pics, but I think we've had enough embarrassment with MINE!

This is my space when you initially walk into the room.  I think I have managed to find a space for most everything...just need to actually remember to get it back IN it's space when I am done with it...I think that is my biggest downfall.  For my birthday this year I am hoping to get one of the Expedit 5x5 shelves from IKEA and then get rid of the besk and credenza...the kids have the 4x4's in their rooms and I swear I have been trying to find a way to make at least one of them mine for YEARS now!  LOL!

I have a shelf in the closet where I keep all my stamps, ribbons and a good chunk of my embellies.  The embellishments are organized in the iris cart by theme/subject in gallon sized ziploc bags and each drawer is labeled.  For the most part it works for me.  I think I would like to consolidate things a bit more but will just do that one drawer at a time...or one ziploc bag at a time! ;)  I would love to be able to paint in the office but right now that is all on hold since we are just not sure if we will even still be in this particular house much longer...but I am thinking I may get a curtain rod or something to hang across the top of my desk to display some of my LOs to brighten things up.

Well...I am off to scrap!