Hey all,

Remember all my talk about my "Scrapstudio"? What did you think? Is she all making it up? When are we going to see anything? Well, this afternoon I finally managed to finish all the cleaning work in my scrapstudio! I'm so happy I can finally use it as a real scrapstudio. As you can see below, it looks a lot better than all the old versions.
I've taken this photo from the doorway. On the right, you can see supplies from Scrapping Memories. In the middle is the big closet James and his colleague made last year and on the left you can see a small part of the table. Take a look at the next picture in my gallery for a view of everything under the windows :)

The Desk
With a lot of thanks to James for the bright idea I have workplace, lets call it a desk, in my closet. That's far more better than working on the small table. The desk is really big as you can see.
I believe it's about 1 meter in depth. And it's 1 meter wide. So I have a really huge area to work on. I won't have t worry about the desk getting too cluttered, because I have everything else in the closet. This is so wonderful! And of course I have some essentials right under reach. What to think of the glue, scissors and pencils? And my Trimmer? As you can see in the picture above I've already placed the project I was working on downstairs on my desk. And it all fits perfectly! Ah, but there is one thing a true scrapper can't do without and that's..............

The M & M's!
I did make myself make a promise. Now, how does that sound? Weird, doesn't it? Anyway, I've made the promise to myself that I'm only allowed to take a few M & M's once I have a page finished. And since that may take a while with me, the jar shouldn't be empty right away, right? So let's see how I'm hanging on to that in a few weeks time, shall we?

Embellishments Jars
Now, although the M & M's are very important in a scrapper's life, there are more things important too. So let's have a look at the rest, shall we? I've made one shelve especially for most of my die cutting machines and other things, like the Xyron. The only thing is that the Sizzix is simply too heavy to put on the same shelve, so that one is somewhere else. Of course I have my finished and unfinished projects on shelves in my closet. Where else would I have to put them? But that's not all. Remember the jars for the embellishments? Remember that I told you I had bought five of each a few weeks ago? Well, not long after that I bought some more of these little jars. They are just perfect. This week I started putting all the embellishments in jars and I found out I didn't have enough jars, so I bought a few big ones for all my ribbons and fibers. That would fix it, or so I thought. Well, in the end here's the result. I ended up with 14 jars like this one filled up (and I have a few left!) and more little jars for the little embellishments!:
And let's not forget the other jars I had already and the grocery jars! I have so many embellishments! I'm glad I've put in reach, on the shelves right next to my desk. That way the colors will inspire me and I'll get inspired to use more embellishments than I've done so far, simply because I'll actually know I have them right now. It makes sense, doesn't it?

Stamps
So, anything left that's interesting? Let's think..... Oh, right, my Stamps! I've collected quite some stamps with Clubscrap (and no, I was NOT a member of Clubstamp!) but I haven't used them often. Maybe, just maybe, that was because they were.... well...... in some place where I didn't have a full view on them? So, I managed to change that. I have placed them in full view, so I can hardly miss them right now. It's time I start using these stamps! So, what do you think of my solution?

More wishes?
Okay, so it took me several days to clean everything up, I had to use five garbage bags (the BIG ones!!!) and I've been cleaning up everything until I thought there would be no end to it. BUT, the result is worth all this. I'm so glad I did this! And now it's all clean, I'm really enjoying my scrapstudio. Of course, there are a few things I'd like to change, like the table, i.e.:
This table is just to small to work on it with several people. I'd like to have a table (and accompanying chairs) for at least four people in my Scrapstudio, NOT including my desk. It all depends on the space I have left if I'd be able to fit in a table (and chairs) for six people. For now, I don't really need it. Usually it's just the three of us (Bianca, my mother and I), so a table of four will do. Maybe it will be different in the future, but that's a whole other story! I'll tell you about it some other time. Once I've found a nice table, I'll show it to you!

My computer
You may have missed my personal computer. Well, that's correct. We have a separate room (we like to call it the "Study") where both my computer as the computer from James is. It's perfectly because that way my computer won't take much space from my desk! Ah well, I guess that's one of the benefits of not having children (yet?).

Well, this is it for now. If you have any questions, please leave a comment or e-mail me at:
ilse at ilsesjournal dot com.

Let me know how your scrap space is! What do you have and what don't have? Do you have specific reasons to have or don't have certain things? What are your wishes for the future?

Talk to you later!