What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday and Learn Something New Everyday..

Is it an age thing or does everyone's weeks fly by and it is Wednesday again before you have turned around?  I have spent some time doing the stash shuffle this week... because when I unpacked I just sort of threw stuff onto vacant shelves without any thought... so I have been taking it all off bit by bit and now I actually know where some things are!! :)
Chris did manage to get the stuff up on the wall a few nights ago so now it is all coming together as a place to sit and play properly!!

This magnetic board for my brads was metal in a white frame and it didn't look right... so I papered it!

I did this monogram when I was in Saudi but the other day I was wandering around in the local dollar store (ooooh, I do like these) and found this black material covered canvas so I glued the monogram to it for my wall and I think it looks lots better now!

I have been sorting all the shiny bits I love for my mini books into jars and things and this wall shelf works a treat for displaying them.  I really am the sort of scrapper that if I don't see it, I don't use it!!

LOL... now don't laugh... I have tonnes of ribbon and when I saw this shelf for ribbons in Michaels I had to have it... only to find that the ribbon I bought by the roll in Saudi doesn't actually fit on the poles!!  So, until I can afford to go and buy heaps of new ribbon on a role which does fit, I am utilising it for the bags of ribbon and all the chains and beads and stuff that I amassed on my shopping trips in Saudi.

Hmmm, yes, I think have enough 'stuff' to play with for quite a while!!

So if you are still wondering what WOYWW is about... pop over to Julia's and check out the ever growing list of people who reveal their work desks to the world every Wednesday!

Learn Something New Every Day.... well, I learned this morning that if you have your toenail removed and cauterised on the Monday it isn't very smart to take a 20 minute hike to the hairdresser's and back on the Wednesday....  I will pause for sympathy.... please?  LOL  Of course, the advantage to this is that now I have the perfect excuse not to do anything else but sit at the scrap table and play for the rest of the day!!  

WOYWW.... is getting nearer!

We are off to IKEA this evening to pick up Expedits etcetera for the scraproom.... and I can't wait!!  I have unpacked all the air shipment boxes and it is all now an absolutely horrendous mess down there and still no work desk to speak of, even though I do now have one of those as I found a bargain at IKEA of the metal stands for there work benches and it was reduced to a silly $12.99!!  The lovely glass tops to go onto it were over a $100 and I am not entirely sure that working on a glass work surface is the way to go... so I had a brain wave and went to the local DIY store and bought a white flat door for $37 and it is fab and huge and gives me loads of work space to spread out on.

So this is the basement as it is at the moment....

and that is all my scrappping stuff piled up on the floor...

So this is the section that I plan to use as my scraproom... you can see one of my impulse buys from Michaels on the floor that was 40% off.... that wall is about 6 feet wide so will take a big Expedit without difficulty and then I can have the long wall for desks and storage.... well, that's the plan anyways!!

and I even have my own toilet and sink down there.... great for washing brushes etc!

and here is all the paper I have unwrapped and in the background you can see the pile of boxes all flattened and waiting to be picked up by the shipment peeps.... who wanted to charge me $50 to collect it all!!  I don't think so.... they were paid to unpack the cartons and put it all away and as I did that part of the job they can collect the rubbish for free, thank you very much!! ;)

Hopefully next week I will actually have a work desk to show you... it very much depends on how many people I can bully into helping put all the flat packs together!! LOL  You can now go and have a look at all the wonderful work on work desks via our lovely Julia...