Scrapbook room Organization! Goal #1!!

WARNING: PICTURE OVERLOAD!!

I will be the first to admit it.... I do not ever follow through with new years resolutions... so, I don't make any!! This year, I have some goals, and will faithfully try to meet them!

#1 GET ORGANIZED!! I love to organize everything, but if you walked into my house right now, you would never know! Is it the 3 Totes of Kids Christmas presents, the 2 totes of Christmas decor, the pile of stuff to take to Goodwill, or is it the pile of stuff I just bought at Goodwill????? Either way, it's not looking too good. And, to be quite honest, I have not had 4 straight days off of work in a LONG time, and I really didn't feel like spending the last day off cleaning my house... so I worked on a few goals!!

My BFF helped me make some new vinyl tags on the cricut and organize my drawer system, and tonight I got everything labeled! I am in LUUUVVEEE!!

These are all of my SEI (monthly club) sets that I am now keeping in these handy pockets:

If you look closely, you will see that I got ALL of my printed papers all organized by theme, this will make life sooo much easier!

AND..... while I was locked in my scrapbook room listening to Pandora love songs, the Hubby was inside finishing my fabulous new mantel and the kids were dragging ALL of their bedding out to build a fort!! Now I am on to clean up those messes...

Thanks for stopping by!

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My Favorite Room Before & After

Welcome to my Blog! I must start by saying that I do not have an "Official" before picture, but with good reason! My husband and I decided that we were going to remodel the garage in our home that would include a Laundry room (I've always hated doing laundry in the garage) and a Playroom! Well to my suprise I came home from work one day and he had already started the building without me knowing. I didn't know why, but I was not going to complain! So I grabbed my camera and started from here:

In this picture you will notice the Garage door still in the photo, along with the opener...

This is what I had envisioned for the playroom. A big room that had the ability to have an open door for fresh air in the summertime... WRONG! He told me this was going to by MY room! His exact words were "The kids have their own rooms with plenty of toys, and I want this to be a place for you!" I know how sweet right? I was on cloud 9!!

Well as we started moving along, I had NO clue what colors I wanted because I had no time to really plan for this! I wanted another baby, but we had decided that our two plus raising our nephew was really all we could handle while working full time... and my son had a Curious George nursery that I was ooober in love with and kept EVERYTHING from. So I decided that since I can't have more babies, I would make this my "baby" room, but for ME! Bright YELLOW!! It keeps you awake in there, trust me!!This is the door that leads you into the laundry room to the right, and into the stockpile through the door on the left! (and yes, that is my daughter in her undies with a paint roller. She was helping paint the laundry room)

Here is my finished product!! My hubby built all of the workspaces and the shelves on the left wall. Everything else was purchased at Michaels craft store! I love it, and I am not even completely done making it my space!

Just a couple of my storage spaces:

So here it is:

BEFORE..............

AFTER........

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"Decrapification" of the scrapbook room!!

Well hello again! It has been the craziest summer, and it shows on my blog!! My goal is to post at least 2 days a week... so we shall see how that goes.....

Ok, now onto business. I have this amazing scrapbook room that Mr.Wonderful built me last year, and over the summer it was a little abused. Ok, let's get real... it was REALLY abused!!

Here is what it looked like last year.

Not too bad, just WAAAYYY too clutter for this OCD crafter!

Ok, so that looks pretty good compared to what you are about to see. I am ashamed to show you this, but in all honesty the only reason it looks the way it does is because I have 3 small children, and this was the only place i could "park" stuff until i put it away. HAHAHA it only took 3 months to put it away!

OK, it's over, I showed you my dirty secret. I have problems, yes I have figured this out. While my Bestie Heather was over to help me clean this room out, we discovered that Ihave about 3 of everything that I dont even need!!

So we spent one night cleaning most of the stuff you see in these pictures out, and then tonight I really went full speed and re-arranged, and re-organized the whole space. I am loving it, and cant wait to start working in there!

OK, so there you have it. And for some reason blogger is being a pain in the butt tonight with the pictures, so I will show you more of how I organized and decorated in another post!

Thanks for checking this out!

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