Organize your Stuff Week 16 (round 5): Paint, Mists & WOYWW 143

Happy Leap Day!
Thirty Days has September, April, June, and November.
All the rest have thirty-one…except February.
It has twenty-eight.
However, once every year in four, February has one more!

What a special What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday! Well, to celebrate this quadrennial holiday of sorts, come leap, hop, jump, or click with us over at the always Fabulous Julia’s Stamping Ground, where there are over a hundred crafty folk sharing their spaces and their work! Here is mine today…

And here are my paints… They travel a lot, having most recently traveled to Cub Scouts so that the boys could paint their carvings for their Den Totem poles, so the POW keeps them in a reusable grocery bag for ease of use and transport…even if it frustrates OCD Me that they are constantly getting messy. (Find a happy place, find a happy place...LOL!)

Our mists also are grab and go-able! This makes it easier for Creative Me to play. The big thing to remember with mists is a misting area. Inner Hoarder, of course, always has a spare shoe box…and thanks to Oldest Child’s ginormous feet, they are plenty big enough for most projects!

Here is our other project…

…our design team entry for Tuesday Trio’s Sketch 108: 5 colors. And let me tell you, there is nothing more mojo blocking then a color count for Creative Me. However, we made it through. It is simple, but it is done.

*Warning: skip to the end to avoid the family stuff*

As for our picture from the front this week, Fabulous Spouse has not done much of anything picture worthy, as it has been a little stressful in country. However, here is a picture of the Office Dodge Ball Team from last week.  On the plus side, we did get a huge boquet of yellow flowers this week!  There is a reason he is Fabulous Spouse!

As a result of increased stress in the area, we had to get our St. Patrick’s Day box out early. Let us tell you, Creative Me was totally excited with her first use of gel food coloring in the white chocolate macadamia nut cookies. They came out perfectly green and yummy.

Our big activity this week was going to see the Harlem Globetrotters, an awesome trick shot basketball team. Since Illusive Middle Child and Girl Friday are playing basketball for the first time, they were in total awe of what these great athletes could do!

Oldest Child spent the week assembling his first new bed since 2004. OCD Me really wanted to do it herself, but one week later, he had an Ikea bed that he had assembled more than half by himself.

Illusive Middle Child had pocket knife duty at Cub Scouts. Here is his carving for the Den totem pole…it is supposed to be a grey wolf (just squint and nod…its ok). Of course, the boy was the only war casualty, needing a band-aide for his thumb after somehow getting a small cut.

Girl Friday had the privilege of attending Girl Scout Songfest, celebrating Girl Scout’s 100th Anniversary. The vest was on loan from the POW, as Girl Friday wanted to wear something “vintage” to the celebration. *Sigh* We are vintage now…The POW guesses that means we are worth more than hand me downs! LOL! Girl Friday also got interviewed for the Girl Scout time capsule.

Anyways, have a great day! Leap around! Enjoy! Thanks for visiting!

Organize your Stuff: Week 16 (round 4): Chalks, Paint, Glitter, and Stickles

Well the quiet week has come and gone way too fast! Creative Me finished this layout from our desk picture on Wednesday.

Originally, the plan was to use stickles on all of the red dots, but at the last minute the POW decided to reign in Creative Me and leave it as is. OCD Me was a little conflicted, since we always try to tie in to the week that we are organizing. However, OCD Me is also the one who constantly criticizes Creative Me for swinging too far to the Dark Side and venturing perilously close to the infamous Product Vomit.

The POW, self-proclaimed arbiter of my mind, decided that when OCD Me is worried about our craftiness, then something must be done quick… lest we tear a hole in the space time continuum or something. So, a few clicks later, and we were off to create a card.

This card uses the color scheme from The Play Date Café Challenge #90. Creative Me just loves the pictures that these folks put together each week to represent their colors!

Also, this card uses the “I Miss You” sentiment from Operation Write Home’s Wednesday challenge. The POW thinks that these people rock, as Awesome Auntie gets a card from her deployed spouse every other day or so, and those cards are free from OWH to him so that he can write home.

As for storage, not much has changed since last round.

This little bag has my stickles (name brand for dimentional glitter glue) mists and chalk inks. A reusable grocery bag has two stacked mini-milk cartons of acrylic paints and one set of watercolors in it. 

Hope that you all have a great and crafty weekend!

Organize your Stuff: Week 16 (round 3): Paints, Glitter, and Stickles

For those of my readers who are Christian, Merry Christmas!!! Feliz Navidad!! God Jul!! Joyeux Noel!! Or however you say it Happy (and hopefully not to stressful and busy) Holidays!! It seems that many of us get caught up in a tug of war with our selves as the POW tries to make every commitment, OCD Me tries to channel Martha Stewart and Norman Rockwell, and PA Me keeps thinking that if we keep ignoring it, December 25th will never get here. PS- Out of state Family- PA Me regrets to inform you that she has yet to get to the post office, so presents will probably be late.

Today starts a Christmas Card week at Tuesday Trio, and this is the Design Team card that I posted for Sketch #46.

It has both paint and stickles…but no glitter.

Creative Me loves paint. However, it is very understandable if you are a papercrafter who does not paint, or a painter who does not scrap or make cards. I love adding a touch of something with paint, or painting up the edge of a chipboard. Creative Me has also recently started an addiction to Glimmer Mist (LOVE IT!) To Creative Me , this week’s tools are the things that have the potential to bring Dorothy to OZ in full Technicolor.

In a kind of trip down memory lane... here are pictures that you have seen before, but OCD Me will not allow pictures in the scrap room while it looks like a seamstress shop threw up on it (Creative Me is making Christmas Pagent costumes right now.  One Wise man down...one Angel to go!)

 
 
Here is my sack of acrylic paints and glitter.  Big jars are on the bottom and small jars are on top.  Girl Friday loves paints and uses them often.
 
 

 
 
Then here are my stickles and glimmer mists.
 
 
 

 

I am off to do more baking and sewing and at some point actually get to that post office!

Organize your Stuff Challenge: Week 16: Paints, glitter, stickles

Fortunately, as my life hits the trifecta of being overworked, over-played (with schlepping 3 kids to 2 sports, 2 scouts, 2 religious ed programs, all day grown-up scout wilderness training, mass…) and underwhelmed to deal with my over-messy home (PA me is tired and exherting her willpower)…I came upon another week that OCD Me and the POW have already taken care of.  Short of brining my stuf down stairs to enter my scrap space, I was pretty much done.  Time for a Layout..

Question of the Week: If you could have only one, what would it be? For me- paint. It is cheap, a multi- tasker (a la Alton Brown of the Food Network), and it crosses over into my kids life/ arts and crafts. I do not own much glitter (3 bottles of clearance holiday Martha Stewart glitter), or much in the way of stickles 2-crystal and 1 distressed brown Tim Holtz. (*gasp*) I know… Inner hoarder hasn’t heard about these yet!

I do like stickles though, because it can add the bling that you crave in this phase of your scrapbooking evolution, without paying the double or triple cost of getting the paper pre-glittered/ embossed.

For my layout this week, I used Little Yellow Bicycle, but opted out of the cooler… but more expensive paper, and created my own…

Next week... it is on to punches...