My staroom is my room for scrapbooking; it's also the family office, computer, homework, and project room. Unfortunately, lately it has become more of the latter and less of the first. I realized when I was in NY and read a book that Laura got for her birthday (which I couldn't find a picture of on the internet) The Organized and Inspired Scrapbooker, that part of the reason I haven't scrapbooked in three and half years is because my room isn't organized properly and doesn't inspire me to want to scrapbook. Also, just being with Laura and talking with her about scrapbooking really made me want to get going again because she truly is an inspired scrapbooker.
When I got home I got the book and read it, as well as using the workbook that comes with the book to help you realize what inspires you and your personal approach to scrapbookng and then how to make your scrapbooking space make you WANT to scrapbook. Well, it's taken me a couple of weeks to completely revamp my space and my supplies, but I completed this project last night at 10:30 pm and it feels great! I got a bigger bookcase since my old one was overflowing (thanks, Heather!) so now I have a "reading area" with my books, Ikea chair and lamp. I moved my printer and modem closer to the computer and made my "home office" space more workable. Finally I reorganized ALL of my scrapbook supplies. I realized that my approach to scrapbooking is motivated my color, so I organized everything into drawers by color. This included going through all my stickers, brads, grommets, die cuts by color - very time consuming, but rewarding because now I am excited to get scrapbooking. My next job is organizing all the photos of the last three and a half years into photo boxes so I can start scrapbooking!
8 comments:
You have reached true bloggerhood. When you finish a project and immediately take photos and post about it, that's when you know you've arrived.
You even get to the point where a main part of your motivation in doing the project in the first place is to post about it. What did we ever do without this wonderful invention?
guilty as charged!
It looks amazing, Mom! Can I come scrapbook at your house? With three kids and a preschooler now, my table is no longer my own. It's always piled with stuff to be put away (wherever "away" is). Way to go!
What a lot of work! I admire you and your girls because you are all awesome scrapbookers. (That includes Karrissa)I don't have the room to do something like that unless I were to get rid of the bed and that I can't do. The new and improved Star Room will be so much handier and nicer for you and you don't have any little hands to get into things, either.
Why do you call it the star room?
HAHA
Looks great Janet! Wish I could come visit it, and sit in the Ikea chair and read.
You Rife's know how to organize!!! Looks great, good luck with scrapping!
WE NEED A NEW POST FROM YOU MOM!
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