Organize your Stuff Week 15 (round 5): Inks & WOYWW 142

WOYWW Valentine Blog Candy winner: Sarpreet said...its not unloved, its well loved, Great workspace, Happy WOYWW 141, thank you for sharing,# 52 February 15, 2012 1:19 PM
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Welcome Wednesday! It is time to WOYWW or What’s On Your Work desk Wednesday, where we share our crafty spaces… the good, the bad, and the post-apocalyptic wasteland! (well, hopefully none are that bad, but we know that ours has come close from time to time!) To peek and oooh and ahhh at the other crafty spaces or post your own, pop on over to the Fabulous Julia’s Stamping Ground.

Here is our workspace after a week of half days for the little guys, and then a busy four day weekend!

As it is week 15 (half way there!) in our organization challenge, it is Ink Week, and so here is a peek at how we store ours. It is always a constant battle between OCD Me who wants them put away, and Creative Me and PA Me who tend to leave them on the desk (seen above) in easy grabbing space.

Inner Hoarder loves inks. It is only the POW who keeps this addiction in check. The biggest thing that Creative Me has learned over the years is that not all inks are created equal. Momento is what we use for Copic Coloring. Close to My Heart (CTMH) is our favorite for clear acrylic stamps,

...closely followed by Tim Holtz’s Distress Inks (OCD Me has labeled these and stores them upside down). We use Stampin’ Up for our rubber stamps, and VersaMark for embossing.  We have a bunch of reinkers (behind the tower).  These are definately cheaper in the long run for avid stampers then constantly replacing the pad. We have StazOn (the permanent marker of ink), but to be honest they are not used much.

Here is our card for this week. It is the one that Creative Me made for Fabulous Spouse, and was mailed off over a week ago. Unfortunately, with all the crazy this weekend, we did not get our design team card done for this week. *sigh* We could not find a Mardi Gras stamp in our massive repertoire of stamps, so Creative Me had to freehand this image.

Warning: Skip to the bottom now if you do not want the family stuff!

We all got into the Mardi Gras spirit though this week. Yesterday was Fat Tuesday or Shrove Tuesday or Fauschnaut Day for many depending on where you are from. Having grown up in the land of the Pennsylvania Dutch, for us it was the tiny donuts known as Fauschnauts that meant more than Mardi Gras beads as part of our fun holiday traditions. Now that we have moved far away, we substitute donut holes, and even shipped some to Fabulous Spouse, who had a Mardi Gras party of his own over there.

Also, for his “official” picture of the week from Afghanistan, Fabulous Spouse got to attend the festivities and displays of the Mongolian forces at the base as they celebrated Mongolian Armed Forces Day. Oldest Child surprised us by looking at the picture and going, “Is that a gur?” (??!!??... It is from Civilization, Mom…). Why yes, it is.

Also, this week, we had Oldest Child’s first wrestling match of the season. He was Varsity 250 pound class, and almost won!

Girl Friday met the illustrator of the Fancy Nancy books at the Fancy Nancy Ballet.

…and Illusive Middle Child hid from the camera as much as possible.  However, we did snag this one of him helping with cookies for Fabulous Spouse's weekly care package.

Happy hopping!