Scrappy space

I have a true love for paper... It’s blankness captures me and provides endless daydreams on what it can become. With this love for paper, scrapbooking seemed like the perfect craft to continually persue.

Our cute little house had this amazing (smaller) 3^rd bedroom where all my crafting stuff lived… now, Lolli resides there (and I wouldn’t have it any other way : ) So, my supplies have migrated here, there and everywhere in between. I noticed everything eventually ended up strewn across the dining table. After visiting one of my favorite stores, The Hickory Tree, I found an awesome wardrobe that fits in the dining room.

Sidebar: The Hickory Tree is a local home decor/ furniture consignment store with amazing finds!
www.hickorytreeconsginment.com

After, we lugged this thing in the house the fun began… I loaded it up

Here’s the contents… (two layers deep):

• New albums and refills
• Stickers turned sideways in a basket and labeled with dividers
• Embellishments in the IRIS Extra Large Photo Keeper (bought at Michaels) - LOVE IT!
• Chip letters stored in small stackable containers
• Journaling paper in small basket
• Other like items grouped together in small baskets
• Caddy full of constant use items
• Circuit
• Basket filled with Circuit cartridges, blades, vinyl and transfer paper
• Basket filled with Crop-a-dile, Creative Memories paper cutters & tearing tools and Spellbinders embosser
• Photo box containing embossing plates
• Creative Memories punches and cutting system supplies stored in one of their discontinued cases
• Creative Memories power sort box and power layout box
• Storage box containing packs of paper
• (2) IRIS 12 X 12 scrapbook paper storage boxes (one for solid paper & one for printed)
• Pockets containing scrap paper
• Crate containing completed scrapbooks
• In the bottom... I have Lu-lu’s scrapbooking supplies, old photos, stamps, family portraits and cards

It's time to think outside the box and get scrappy!

Capturing a free spirit

As a woman holding on to her twenties, a mother of two, a wife, working full time and trying to find my place, I find myself trying to make time… time I just don’t have. It is a balancing act between getting to be my true self (which I lose frequently) and being all these other things that I dearly love.

More often than not, I feel these urges surge through my body; almost a combustion feeling… it is my creative spirit trying to free itself. I feel like if freed it would be like Ferris Bueller singing on the parade float, an epic release, euphoria, a rebellion against myself.  Francis Picabia said “A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.”   I certainly believe this!!! My spirit reminds me with who I really am and at moments it will not be suppressed... unless I use the ‘force’.

After teenage years or ‘the good ol days’ you kind of lose who you are, even though you haven’t seemed to find yourself yet.  I guess life is a process of reinventing yourself every few years, with new experiences and circumstances you adapt evolve. But, I still feel those pesky teenage years hold something valuable.  I think the freedom (and the free time) of those years is what people hold on to. Now, the question is how you recapture that while holding down the fort!?! I haven’t found this balance yet, but it certainly is my mission. It’s time for this free spirit to fly! Hopefully by showing my girlies what this Momma can do, they will be inspired and free spirited individuals!