Storage Pockets $$$$

If you use or are thinking of using the Avery Elle storage pockets for your stamps and/or dies  like I did... will I found some that are just like the Avery Elle but MUCH LESS $$$Money$$.....

They are on Ebay...... here's the link;
http://www.ebay.com/itm/322136140642

You get 100 pockets for 15.90 and FREE shipping.
and I got them in 2-days no problems at all....
As soon as I got them I had to see if I could tell them from the Avery Elle... Truthfully I can't tell any difference at all... none.... 

I've been buying the Avery Elle in the 25 packs for 8.00 to 12.00 bucks so you can see the savings...

Just had to let anyone that reads this know.... tell your craft friends even if you don't use them it's really a good deal.
And Know I don't know these people or am I getting anything from them, I just had to share this. 

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WOYWW & Baby Nipples

UP-DATE TO THIS POST
This did not work for me.... I would not trying it at all....  ..
 
Hi Girls,
Happy  WOYWW're.... It's been a while since I've posted but had the time and though I would catch up a bit.... Can't wait to see everyone posts!!!!
A while back I saw a post were a gal was using baby nipples on the ends of glue bottles and they would not get stopped up.... Here's that post.  You have to watch it......
Will I tried it and here are the 2 glues I used, both of the original caps were split and I had taped them to keep them from drying out;

I liked how it worked with the regular white glue, it did keep the little bit of glue in the whole till you picked it off and was able to use the glue and form a thin line of glue or use the nipple to move it around with the and when it dried it just comes right off.  

But the ZIP glue was a different story all together.... I could not get a bead to stay on the whole so the next day the whole nipple would be dried out, now the glue did come right off  no problem, I tried it 2 more times and the same think happened... so I put my split cap with the tape back on.  I then tried to wright to the gale on the video but never got an answer, guess she was tired of people like me asking questions... but I really wanted to make this work. 

I'll keep using the nipple for my regular glue thow... love how easy it is to use and clean too. 

If anyone else has tried this and knows the answer to the zip glue please let me know. 

Now off I go to check on as many as I can.... hope to see your post!

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Wood Mount stamps compleated

Hi All

For the last week I've been recuperating from Eye surgery and still can't see out of my left eye very well.....  but wanted to complete my last phase of Organization of all my stamps into one place and container. It's been 1 month and 3 days since I started changing my Wood mounted stamps into Cling Mount.... and I can finally say I'm DONE,,,,, YEAAAaaaaaaa **********

Here's a shot of the SU boxes with just the wood blocks in them and the New way I have the stamps filled in these nice Avery Elle Storage pockets. 

The stack of 36 SU boxes was  over 41 inches tall and now fit into a file draw 13.5 long by 6.75 wide. 
OH MY LANDS what a difference this has made. All I need to do now is file them in with all my other stamps that I have already put in the Avery Elle pockets.

 

 I have them filed by Birthday, Thank You, Fun, Old Folks, Kids, Flowers & Bugs, etc........just not having to go and look for lets say a flower stamp in the 4 draws where all my SU were and a box I had all my CTMH in and binders I had all my clear stamps in, lets just say I had know idea where anything was anymore and just was not happy. I just LOVE that I have this phase of my Organization completed and now going to just sit back and enjoy it before I move on to my next phase.......

 

And maybe in a few weeks I'll be able to see better too... If these pics are blurry all I can say is I'm sorry and I'll redo them when I can tell...but just had to post this today I could not wait*******

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WOYWW-Turning Wood mount stamps into Cling mount stamps

(What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday)

Every Wednesday Julie Dunnit hosts a gathering of crafters from all over the world to share what they are working on with a pic of our play area.  It's really fun to see all the different things people are working on from all over the world and I must say I've meet some very interesting people from Julie's site, Thanks Julie!!!!!!

Will here's mine for today;

Back in April I posted how I've been organizing all my stamps HERE's the link.... Boy what a job this has been***
Will I have all my clear and cling mount stamps in the Avery Pocket now and LOVE how easy it has made finding the stamps I need or forgot about.   The only stamps I still had left were my Wood mount stamps and I was kind of afraid to tackle them.  But I did, and it's really not been to bad.  Here's the link to the gal that shows how it's done.... Thanks Jen!!!
Here's a pic of the FUN......

I've just started but can tell this is going to make a BIG difference.... I love it already. Hope to be finished in a week or so....

Now what do I do with all the Wood Blocks.......?

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Re-Organizeing my Stamps

Hi All....
Will it's been a LONG time since I posted so not sure how many are even watching my blog any more... I've been working on getting ALL my stamp sets Re-Organized and what a job this is... more than I had expected. Now that I've found SOooo many of my old stamps that I love, now I'm looking for a way to Catalog them so I KNOW what I have and can FIND them too...... Large order I know***
After seeing a few blogs Jennifer McGuireink and The Spotted Chick I found the Avery Elle pockets at Scrapbooking Warehouse for a really good price since I need so many I had to look around.   Then I went to Bed Bath and Beyond and found the container Jennifer used in her video but also found this one.  So I got one of each to see which one would work best for me in my work area... I went with the two tier sliding basket, then went back and returned the other one and got 2 more of the 2 tier ones. I know this seams like a long post but I hope it answers a lot of little questions that I'm finding answers to along this journey.....
Here's a few pics of how I've been storing my cling and clear stamps.

On the left side is a EZMount Lightweight Stamp Storage Panel and love how ALL my stamps would stick to these panels and come off to use so well... (The EZMount Panels I reused, you will see later)

On the right side is just a index sheet I  made with either the plastic that the stamp came on taped to a sheet of paper or a stamped image just so I could see what I had.  I put them in a sheet protector so the next page would have something between them... I did this with all types of stamps see below.

MFT

Papertray Ink stamps and matching Die set

Flourishes

This is the way I've been storing my stamps since 2011 here's my post from then.

And I would have still been using this if I had not stumbled across Jennifer McGuire's blog, now my whole organization world changed for many thing. 

Ok,,, next I'll show you how I place each stamp SET into a Avery Pocket.

Here's a pic of a MFT set on it's original plastic sheet so you can read the words with a paper insert (paper insert size is 7 1/4 x 5 3/8) that I have labeled with the company and stamp name if I have it, and in the Avery pocket.

Nice Ha*

and here's a pic of that set in the bottom bin.  Each bin holds 60 to 100 sets depending on if they are the red rubber cling or the thin clear sets.  Right now I just have them mix in the bins, don't have any order yet... been thinking about that????? any suggestions ?????

Now here's the new Catalog sheet I'm making of EACH stamp set.  I just ink up the stamp set while it's on the plastic and lay the paper on top and rub to get all the images...

Here's a pic of the new small book I have them in... I have it tabbed in general groups, like; Words, Fun, Birds & Bugs, Flowers, etc... but not sure if this is going to work yet. 

This is a view of the book size, it holds a half sheet of paper perfect. I took a 8 1/2 x 11 sheet and (cut it at 8 1/4 x 5 1/2) punched the holes and a perfect fit.

That's it for today... If you have ANY thoughts on how to file the stamp sets or how to catalog them please let me know.... I am open to any ideas, who knows it may triger something NEW****

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Blog I just found....

I bet all you ladies that read my blog are going to say, "Will YEA,,, I've been watching her blog forever"... Will just by the OFF chanch one of you have not visited her I bet you will be so impressed and imspired to get Orginized and easy and not to price ways to do it too....

 

 

I have just found this Gal's blog.... OMG is she ever put together..... I'm definitely changing several of my ways to store my stamps and picking up tips on so many other thing just to many to list..

Here's her Blog...Jennifer McGuireink You have got to check out her Videos about storing stamps, Dies, Stencils, Great Ideas on inks and so many other things like I said, I just can't say enough.
You will Enjoy yourself I Promise!!!

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Die Organization part 2

Hi All,

Will this weekend I needed some things in Wal-Mart...(I hate to go there, to darn big) anyway, I looked in the section were the containers are but could not find anything I could use.... So I went to the Bath STUFF and they had these GREAT baskets and they were 

****MADE IN THE USA****

 

Only 4.97 and the perfect size I needed, with a little room. 7x9x5.25 So I got two, one for my new Die boards and one for my Embossing folders..

That's not all I found........ I got a roll of White Con-Tack paper...... I know what on earth would I want that for...

Long story short, I have bad eyes with dark or shaded areas, I need LOTS of lights on to really see. 

With the Dies on the dark Magnetic boards I was having a hard time seeing them... So I though I'd try a cheap and simple fix and boy does it make a difference for me let me show you.

This how the dies look on the black magnetics, not bad in the pics but when there standing back to back in a box and your looking down into a little narrow view, will it was just not good for me.

Here they are with the WHITE  Con-tact applyed.

and here's a mixed view

And now in there NEW Basket....

 

as you can see there's lots of room left and I have 40 of the Magnetic boards loaded in this basket.

Ok that's it for today....

Let me know if you have any ideas that you use, that might help me too... believe me I can use it!

 

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NEW Die Storage

Hi All,

Today I'm showing you something I bough from the Stamp-n-Stoage store.  Just wait till you see my before and after pics....

Anyone that has metal Dies and is looking for a way to store them.... I have found just the thing,  I saw this system on a blog that I follow called Darlene Design.com check her craft room out.... Wow!  Among many of her ideas she showed how she stored her metal dies.... will I had to have that... I've been storing my dies in CD and DVD cases with magnetic strips, but even that takes up space...

As you can see here;

On the second shelf is were I store all my metal dies.  The cases from the wall to the flat stack in the middle are all dies in CD cases... the flat stack are DVD cases with larger dies that did not fit in CD cases... and then next to that are some empty CD cases that needed to be filled but I was just not in the mood to cut magnetic strips and make a index for the end and cover sheet, I know that's all self inflected work but it would help me find things I though.  I still just flipped thru my stack till I found the one I was looking for, and never looked at the index strips. Why brother...?

here's a shot of my Big Shot cutting area with my dies above... ( Boy I need to do something with all my wires, what a mess)

Here's a shot of all my now EMPTY CD/DVD cases 20" tall, next to my New stack of 5X7 Magnetic Cards  only 3.5 " tall LOADED....I just could not believe it...

On the first card I was able to put both the original Labels 4 and the Small Labels 4 on the same card.  On the other 2 cards I just put one die set.

Now on the second card I put 5 MFT borders on one card, and the last card I have both of the MFT Fish Tale dies sets.

It was SOOOoooo easy to do this after I received my 5x7 Magnetic Cards I think it took me less then 45 mins to get all my dies on these cards.... but now I have to label them.....I'm going to make labels for the back of each card so when I need the info it's right there. The Magnetics are adhered to a thin cardboard so they are not floppy but do have some give to remove your dies easily.

I'll add more pics when I have them in there new box, labeled and divided up.

Let me know how you have your dies stored.

If you have any questions let me know I'll be glad to help if I can.

 



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**NEW** Eat Cake Graphics Stamps

Hi Everyone!

Been out of town for a few weeks and trying to catch up on everything aroung home...

Before I left I order these Too Cute stamps from Eat Cake Graphics and they were waiting for me when I got home.... YEA ****  They sell them un-mounted as will as mounted but I started buying un-mounted and using Aleene's Tack-it over & Over

on the backs and it works beautifuly on my clear blocks... I love it.

Anyways here's the Cuties I got this time... mostly pooches but a few chicks too... and some cute words also....

I know you can't see the words to much but if you double click on the pic it gets big and you can read everything...  they are really cute..

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Organizating Again!

Yes it's a never ending process for me.....

A friend of my Hubby's was closing his TV repair shop in a small town in Ga.  (Cuthbert, Ga) and had been selling all his STUFF.. Well we were home when this started so when we got back to Ga we had to take a look at what was left... and here are a few things I got for nothing or practically nothing.....

These are 4 sets of plastic 8.5 x 11 paper files, there in groups of 3 and stack up... I think I may just push them back under the shelf there and put the top stack of 3 on the shelf.  But I'll take more pics when I decide what and where.....!

Now this is all apart but it's a metal file box.  On the left is the draw and it has 3 dividers leaning against it.  The long thing is a divider which I'll keep and just lay flat in the bottom of the draw.  The box on the right is what the draw slides into...

It held diodes by a company called Centralab the red sticker on the draw....not fond of the blue but think I'll keep it as is for now.

He only charged me $3 of it... I could not let that go by..

So with a little cleaning up to knock the dust and stuff off I have 2 really nice pieces to help me get organized... I wonder if it will help :(

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Revolving Bins

Hi all WOYWW'rs!!

(What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday)

Every Wednesday Julie Dunnit hosts a gathering of crafters from all over the world to share what they are working on with a pic of our play area. It's really fun to see all the different things people are working on from all over the world and I must say I've meet some very interesting people from Julie's site,

Thanks Julie!!!!!!

I havent posted for some time now but thought I would share this new Revolving bin thing I got last week...

My hubby went to Harbor Fraight to get power tool Stuff... and I was with him and saw this thingie...

Yep they had one all put together and I know I was not leaving without one... I did have hubby check it out for me to make sure it was not a pice of poop, but he knew I would not be putting nuts and bolts in it so it should be OK....

Here's a few shots of all the parts... and let me tell you there were alot of parts.... And I put the whole thing together all by myself too... :)

Here's my first bin put together with the dividers all screwed into place... 2 bins have 3 dividers and 2 bins have 6 dividers.....

Ok....

Now for the finished product and some before and after shots too....

This is the before left side of desk....

And here's the after left side of desk.... I'll be putting my acrilic blocks (that are in the purple bag) in the bottom bin too as soon as I get some rubber stuff for the bottom so they don't get to scrached up.  But so far I like it...

 Here's the right side before...

And then after, really not much change here.....

Sorry it's so Loooong....today... just making up for not posting for so long...

I'll make it short next week, promise!

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Pen / Marker Holder

Hi Everyone!!!!

Will I'm in the clean up and organize mood.... Don't ask me why, but I've been trying to get my Dies so I can find them and then I had my markers in 2 or 3 places so I've been saving Green Bean cans to make a holder... I know with all the pen holders out there what am I doing... I just could not find one I liked so until I do this will do... Why pay for something that I'm just going to make do with....

This is where I've been keeping my CTMH markers... it's alright but putting them into them little holes is a pain and it scrapes off the writing so can't see the color name on some.....

 

This is my work in progress........

 Here it is loaded up with all the different kinds of pens I have... I'm thinking of adding a few more cans....

Here's a side view...

And here's the tower with just a few things in it like my blending pens, aqua pen, tweezers, knife and plenty of room to add other STUFF........

Would love to know how you store you pens and markers... let me know!

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WOYWW

(What's On Your Wordesk Wednesday)

Every Wednesday Julie Dunnit hosts a gathering of crafters from all over the world to share what they are working on with a pic of our play area. It's really fun to see all the different things people are working on from all over the world and I must say I've meet some very interesting people from Julie's site, Thanks Julie!!!!!!

Will here's mine for today;

It's a 3-Lagged Stool with wheels...

I know, I know an accident waiting to happen.....!

But, my work table is just a little to high to use a reguler chair at.. and I've been looking for a Stool I could use and ran across this in a mag... so will I had to try it....

My hubby says I'll be on my butt before the weeks out... only time will tell!

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