So, first up - I have finished my donation slab blocks for the Quilts Recover Southern Alberta project - yeah! I sat down today and sewed a new orange block, since I had fallen in love with the first one I made and then made a second red block, since I had a lot of leftover red scraps I'm unlikely to use for anything else.
That brings the total up to eight blocks altogether and I'm quite happy about it. I'm eagerly awaiting Cheryl's address so that I can pop these into the post in the next week. Here's a look at the collection altogether:
I've also been working a bit more on re-organising my scrapbooking stash. It all started when I found some wooden clothes pegs at a good price; brought them home and decorated them with narrow washi tape, then sat down and went through my ziplock bag of ribbons, creating a donation pile and winding the rest I wanted to keep onto my new, prettied-up pegs.
How lovely, eh? I've since found an old glass container I no longer use for baking supplies and have stored them in there. Well, then I seemed to have gotten the de-stashing bug because I quickly moved on to my stash baskets, which are now pretty bare. I'm very happy about that, though, because a lot of it was stuff left over from my extremely early scrapping days that doesn't match my current style or things that I've received from elsewhere (ie. magazine gifts, etc.) that again don't match my style. And of course, clearing out the old means plenty of room for new shopping - squee!
So at the moment this is the current state of things. Not really organised, as you can see. Those two woven baskets in the bottom shelf are actually my 'stash' and with the exception of cardstock and patterned paper, everything fits in here. Small, right? What can I say, I own a small flat and I need to balance living space with hobbies. The majority of my scrapbooking supplies are currently in a similarly large basket in the kitchen, though - that's my current stash that I'm working through so this certainly isn't all of it.
The box on the second shelf in the first cubby on the left is my box of de-stashed items. The other two cubbies on this shelf have things that would normally fit into the stash baskets but it's all awaiting further organisation at the moment. I'm trying to decide what to do about paper storage right now. I have paper sleeves that my 12x12 cardstock comes in that I'm considering recycling to hold my patterned paper in one of these cubby squares. Or I might invest in a cropper hopper - one for cardstock and one for patterned paper would be plenty for me. Or perhaps the black three-partitioned cropper hopper. I'm going to chat it over with a fellow scrapper friend who's coming to visit for a crop this weekend and then try to decide on a course of action. Suggestions are whole-heartedly accepted.
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