
I had to call in reinforcements this weekend to help me organize my scraproom---or at least make it where I could walk in it without tripping over something and breaking my neck!! This pic is me in my living room after pulling out all of these drawer thingies I have that were STUFFED full of scrappy crap..
One of my closest and sweetest girlfriends, Leeann, took her weekend away from the lake and her hubby and spent 2 days with me, bossing me around while I cleaned, purged, organized, and exhausted myself in the "Chaotic Pit" I call my studio----(I secretly think she kinda liked the "bossing around" part!! LOL!!) My new roomie, Kristen, also jumped in and helped us to sort through my stuff (I think these two girls were ganging up on me, though....just sayin'.....)
Okay, so as I am going through my "older stash", I come across these FUGLY PAPERS--I mean, who would BUY THESE????? Apparently, I DID.......and not just one piece, but several of the same design--

In my defense, though, these papers were DA BOMB maybe, ummmm, 10 years ago???? I think I even made a couple of layouts with them-----not that I want to go looking for these layouts in my old albums, mind you...
I was given two boxes to fill with my "purge stuff"---one for embellies, and one for papers--as Leeann went through my room with me, I kept noticing that my "purge pile" was growing......but not from ME putting stuff into it. Leeann was being sneaky and adding things to the pile when I wasn't looking.. GASP!! I had to be sneaky myself and when she wasn't looking would grab whatever she put into the pile and hide it in my room somewhere--I mean, come ON...those little BIG LOTS finds I spent hundreds of dollars on years ago could be used on a lay out eventually....right?? I mean, who wouldn't want to use these lovely little embellies on a page?

Okay...well...maybe not....so the purge pile Leeann started earlier became bigger and bigger as I threw the CRAP I spent hundreds of dollars on years before grew and grew....and you know what? I became pretty darn DEPRESSED over all that money I spent on this shit....what was I thinking??? I pictured myself at BIG LOTS when I bought this crap, stuffing hundreds of crappy items into my cart because it was a buck or two--good lord....(where's an eye rolling 'smilie' when I need one??)
so, after 12 hours of non-stop cleaning and purging (oh, and Leeann surprised me by getting me these AMAZING totes for my IKEA shelves--THANKS, GIRLIE!!!), we finally were able to sit back and enjoy our hard work--and, my friends, this is now what a clean, organized, PURGED, scraproom is supposed to look like!!


Oh my goodness.....I forgot that my desk was white---it's been so long since I've seen the top of it--


Oh, and I've been warned by Leeann that it had better STAY THIS CLEAN or else.....
(duly noted, girlfriend!!!)