Lauz' little pasta and pidgeon hole scrap organisation nightmare!
Try as I might, my space can not adapt to my needs as a creative minded cardmaker and scrapbooker with an ongoing collection of goodies being carefully being stowed away in tetris fashion like a little chipmonk preparing for winter... the thing is my supplie seems to be evergrowing no matter how fantically I work!
I collate my storage facilities in a budget manner as we are trying to save for a house and my main 'spends' budget I am allocated is taken up by supplies I 'need'. Yes, compulisively, I have bought more than I can store... but I try to be organised, I swear.
I started out with drawers in the hall cupboard.... I catalogued my stamp collection and what was in each drawer... but now the drawers are full D1-(drawer 1) to D9 (drawer 9) are 'choccas'... the catalogue is becoming useless as I scurry to adapt my space...
Then score!! I find this marvellous pidgeon hole type thing at a garage sale... My partner says, yes we shall buy you a table to attach it to. You don't have to scrap out of the hall cupboard anymore. He barters the pidgeon hole type thing down to $10. 44 holes, perfect, wonderful storage..... Here is sits on my table, trying to organise me... Yet looking so hideous filled ot the brim with all kinds of things of much use but kinda crammed in to keep things of a kind 'together' that the partner says... you could really use a devider so I don't have to look at the stuff all over your desk. (he recognises I'm creative and yes stuff will always be all over my desk!)
So hey, I outgrow my pidgeon holes, despite a clear out and here I am saving pasta sauce jars. Washing them, soaking the labels off.... making a button brad eyelet and punched shape rainbow on my windowsill. Pretty, yet evergrowing as we eat more pasta and it is slowly converging on the lounge room out past my divider. What kinds of trouble will I get in... I'm 'breaking out' of my scrap space once more... I'm using drawers to scrap on top of... they're in the lounge room. That wasn't a part of the agreement. The desk is no longer enough!
I need a scrapbox, I need to save my relationship from the 1 bedroom apartment but I must scrapbook demon that's eating our house and my partners sanity... please save us from my compulsion!!
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