Organize your Stuff: Week 24 (round 4): WOYWW #118 and memorabilia (intro)

For starters, let’s have a great woo hoo for back to school!

*yeaaaaahhhhh*

Second, it is that time of the week again for fabulous work desks around the world at Julia’s Stamping Ground as a part of the WOYWW (What’s On Your Work-desk Wednesday). We are here transmitting from the lovely Pacific Northwest, with a defunct laptop that will not hold a charge (*booooo*).

So, it is off today to the computer repair wizard. Promise, Promise that we will get back to any and all commenters, as we know that there are few truths in life…one is never to fight a land war in Asia, and another is never to cross a Sicilian when death is on the line (from Vincini in the Princess Bride). However, even lesser known still, is not to kill the laptop, when WOYWW is on the line!

As this is the second attempt at this post, let me just share Creative Me’s card (minus publisher’s cropping and editing).

This is our sketch for Tuesday Trio’s Sketch #83 (Pink/White/Brown). Creative Me broke out the acrylic paints for this one (as well as our favorite butterfly punch!!)!

As for memorabilia, it has been the bane of our existence since day one! It is the reason that we quit round 2, and limped along round 3. It is the one thing that if any scrapbooker has an Inner Hoarder, takes them too far…

As the POW is currently struggling with laptop issues, we promise to post more about this later…

HAPPY HOPPING!

Organize your Stuff: Week 24 (round 3): Memorabilia part 4

Ok! Memorabilia is still there, but Creative me has taken a tiny bite out if it by completing two more Iraq layouts (that uses OLD 2007 Memorabilia…yeah)!  OCD Me is not happy, the Inner Hoarder keeps sticking her tongue out when nobody is looking, PA Me is pointing out all the cool stuff to Creative Me and reminiscing, and the POW is on her second glass of wine...for tonight.  How was your week?

This first layout has Fabulous Spouse’s Humvee Driver’s license. Just an aside note from the POW: if posting to the internet, make sure that things like social security numbers and such are blurred out!

 

The next one has the convoy map that was given to all the drivers. Fabulous Spouse saved it…because he knew that we would scrap it for him…someday.

However, we have survived Memorabilia Week… even if we did not get much done (organizing wise). Now we are officially no longer Beauty School Dropouts…er… Organization Challenge dropouts. No need to cue the musical number, or get that black costume that Olivia Newton John had to wear. Nope. We are followers, and finishers. The POW has said so…so let it be!

Also, we were featured on Scrap Our Stash Challenge today! Check them out! See you Tuesday!

Organize your Stuff: Week 24 (round 3): Memorabilia part 3

Happy Thursday everyone! This week has been a crafty one for us. PA Me and the Inner Hoarder have been encouraging Creative Me to go to town! Anything to avoid the Memorabilia, because (to quote Becky, a fellow blogger) “Holy memorabilia, Batman, that’s a lot of stuff!” However, at one point, OCD Me and the POW did try to dive in…so that Creative Me could make a Memorabilia Week layout.

Lesson Learned: The only thing worse than ignoring your memorabilia…is looking through it. Two hours later, stuff is spread out in piles everywhere, the brain is full of nostalgia and stories, and nothing is purged. However, we did find some stuff with which to create our layout…once again procrastinating, and once again letting Creative Me go to town.

This was actually a pretty quick layout to make!  Fabulous Spouse won the office pool for the company tickets (Club Level with paid parking!!!!) for the last game of the season.  Four photos, plain blue cardstock base and memorabilia!  Memorabilia used: winning e-mail printout, program cover, tickets, newspaper 12th Man insert.  Scrapping the old school way!

Confession though, we did save a program (not the one from which Creative Me removed the cover for the layout) because it was the game that clinched the division title.  Yes, my name is Scrappnbee, and I have a problem.  The POW did recyle the used program though.  That means that there is still a chance that we will not end up on that Hoarders Burried Alive show...maybe.

The big plan is to get some more Iris Clamshells, label them each with a child’s name and fill it for the school year (I’m telling you, buy stock in Iris. We will personally keep them afloat). Currently, they are on sale, so it gives us an excuse to schedule a lunch date with Fabulous Spouse. Besides, if we buy them…Fabulous Spouse will make sure that the POW knows that they NEED to be filled and not sit empty in the scrap room.  Will try to post on Sunday, with a memorabilia layout from Fabulous Spouse's trip to Iraq. Think that we can get it done? Besides, there is always next round! LOL!

Organize your Stuff: Week 24 (round 3): Memorabilia part 2

Mmmm… Chocolate. Anyone else coming out of a chocolate coma today? Fabulous spouse actually bought us a 22 oz. Chocolate Porter to go with dinner last night! (He figured that after Tool Week at Cub Scouts for Illusive Middle Child and 8 other 2nd graders, that we might need it!...that is why he is a FABULOUS Fabulous Spouse. Love You!) As for Tuesday Trio, Sketch #54 is a red and white only challenge. Here is my Design Team entry:

You may notice that it is not a love card. That is because red and white does not necessarily need to mean Valentine’s Day! … we are already thinking spring, and play dates, and BBQs… OK, We are just looking for something other than 51 degrees Fahrenheit and grey skies and rain…

Speaking of rain… when it rains, it pours, so to speak, and we are just flooded with Memorabilia! We think that is genetic- Packrat-itus. There is no cure, only expensive therapy that PA Me would find an excuse to miss. Maybe that is why my kids’ rooms are so full of stuff! OCD Me has never been able to curb the Inner Hoarder’s need to grab fliers, programs, paper Thanksgiving turkeys, and Valentines cards. With three kids in activities, it amasses quickly!

Realistically, most of this needs to be thrown out or recycled. However, how many of you got that box of treasures from your mom when you left home and loved going through it? The Inner Hoarder just does not want to purge the wrong memories. This is not the memorabilia that you are looking for. Move along. Darned Jedi mind trick! This is why we stopped the Organize your Stuff Challenge last round.

When you first look at the piles of…stuff, it is just overwhelming! Like Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (the Gene Wilder movie, not the Jonny Depp one) where Charlie is in the room with the fizzy lifting drinks. Bubbles, bubbles, everywhere, but not a drop to drink. Then, when you take a swig, you are propelled forward, up to the blades in the ceiling and certain doom! The only way to save yourself is to sink back to whence you came and abandon the room. We have abandoned the room many times.

This time, we may not make much progress, but any progress is better than none. Prior to this post, OCD Me took the Inner Hoarder shopping and bought clear plastic bins to store the stuff that we are not ready to address upstairs as a part of emptying the old scrap room. It was hard, but not as hard as the Inner Hoarder thought it would be, since…we will admit… little purging actually occurred.

Now OCD Me and the POW need to tackle the memorabilia in the scrap room. It is scary. It is not fun. PA Me can think of a thousand other things to do…like dishes…laundry… re-grouting the bathrooms… root canal… anything! However, this is not the Bog of Eternal Stench (from the movie Labyrinth- a must have for families with kids). We will not be placed in an oubliette if we fail. This too will pass.

On to happier things! Blog Candy!!!

The winner is Daniella! Please e-mail me at Scrappnbee@yahoo.com so that I can get your prize mailed out! Thanks to all who visited and We hope that you continue to read from now on!

Thursday, Creative Me will have a Layout using some of my memorabilia… because that is why we still have it! How many of you collect the memorabilia to use in your scrapbook, but end up doing your layouts without it? Then what do you do with your memorabilia that you did not scrap??

Organize your Stuff: Week 24 (round 3): Memorabilia part 1

Let’s start this week with a Happy Valentine’s Day! We need all the love that we can get, as we are starting Memorabilia Week! In a good faith effort, we made a card for the Scrap Our Stash February challenge-love. This is the Love MME Love Me Do paper that we got last year for Valentine’s Day.

Memorabilia! It is a dirty word in our mind. This is our Achilles’ heel in the whole scrapping process! The Inner Hoarder has amassed way more memorabilia then we will ever place in our scrap pages. She has too many program fliers, artwork, ticket stubs, etc! The only thing keeping us from television show status and climbing on the piles is that we were military for so long, and every move had a weight limit (and the house has a space limit!).

The Inner Hoarder is not happy. She and PA Me (and summer break) enabled us to quit the 29 week process and derailed our organization last round. However, this time around, the POW and OCD Me will not be so easily swayed. So, since We do not have a small tropical island with a scrap room and a bottomless Margarita Maker to which we can escape, and running around in circles going Aarrrgggggg!!!! Is just not really an option… you will just have to bear with us as we play a mental game of tug-of war and try to pry stuff out of Inner Hoarder’s hands! (Some pictures tomorrow with my Tuesday Trio Design Team entry and blog hop winner!)