Three Things : On My Table

Project 365 book, getting caught up. Finding creative ways to fill the holes on days I forgot to take picts. Thank goodnes for notes! Latest Cocoa Daisy kit. At work, WASL testing materials. Let the testing season begin, because Spring sure hasn't!

Messy during the set up, but SOOOO worth it in the end! Now my workflow for pictures is so NOT messy it almost scares me...Isn't the LOM class the BEST!

I am known to have a TON of clutter and organized mess everywhere! :) LOL! My "area" looks a lot of the time like an atomic bomb hit it! :) It is a "mom", thing...so I hope you aren't worrying about it.
It is nice to hear that you would rather create and play with your little ones (yes, Simon, too)than worry about what your "table" looks like! :)
I just love how easy going you are Ali...such an inspiration!

Unfortunately, I don't have a scrap space at the moment so my "desk" is actually a big plastic container I use to hold the supplies I'm interested in using. (I bring up the plastic bin from storage in the unfinished basement.) Not the best situation but it's what I'm able to do for now.
So, anyway, now that you know I'm not really using a desk, I do have some products that I've been using recently. A couple of them are the new upper crest border punch from fiskars and a scallop circle punch.

All my acrylic Stamps, a pile of nearly finished projects, my laptop, some patterned paper I ordered that came in.... all-in-all my desk is a hot mess! LOL :)

I have recently taken up art journaling. I kept a journal for many years, but this is a whole new level, and it has been keeping my desk covered with bottles of MM paint, paper scraps, silk flowers, wire and beads. I also have my boy's baby-album-in-progress pile. The American Crafts three-ring binder album, ultrasounds, and lots and lots of Prima and MM paper! It can get overwhelming trying to get all these wonderful ideas out of your mind and onto a canvas of some sort.

The scallop circle punch from Stampin Up! is on my table a lot lately. And buttons. Hybrid layouts are making a big mess there, too. Really enjoying being able to scrapbook on weekends away or vacations without having to take a ton of stuff...then putting the stuff on when I get back home.

awesome :)

HA! Sounds like I need to show my mess more often!

My table it's not really messy right now... I have my Xmas stuff out as I'm working my Xmas 08 album.
I try to keep some kind of order so I can find everything and work fluently.
My side table is messier (sp?). I have a binder with Shimelle's Journal Your Xmas lessons, an album with rubons, journaling spots, etc, foam stamps, my binder of scraps,... but everything is in its place! :o)

lets see...I am staring at a couple of camera manuals, notes from the ATJ class at BPS, punched accents for a mini album project, and SS Quick & Easy Photo Albums special issue, to get ideas for same project, and way to many other things to list.....

Ali, I love seeing your fun and creative table...it looks just like mine right now! For me, with a full time career, a two-hour daily commute, a daughter, a husband, a house that is in constant need of attention whether inside or out in the yard, "relearning how to get things done & how to work in minutes rather than hours", has been my life motto!
Thanks for making me feel NORMAL! :D

Nice to see I'm in good messy company. I always thought it was just me who had working piles. I have 2 scrap desks and right now both have chipboard pieces and letters to make an album, modge podge and a variety of paper on them. I'm showing my friend how to construct one from scratch. It's so much fun to scrap with a friend sometimes.

"Are you working in the midst of a mess too?"
Always ... I do try to clean up, but while I work, I grab and throw things around ... end up working on two or three things at once. When finished, I attempt to clean it up and put it all back, but something usually inspires me again and away I go ... having three kids though usually means working in fits and starts, so it takes me weeks to complete anything. Much less get it all cleaned up! Vicious cycle.

I've got piles of goodies from the hospital on my desk. Audrey's birth certificate, wrist bands, all that good stuff that I can't wait to put in her book...or a shadow box.
I'm another one that really struggles to put stuff away between projects. I think I'm just afraid that my mojo will go-go if I stop! LOL! :D

Hi Ali
my working table is ok. Has been better, has been worse. I am happy with my sewing machine on hand immediatly, like i saw on your blog. I put a taylormade shelf on a ikea dresser and montaged it myself with skrews and a skrewdriver! Working on a lot (couple of swaps) but NEED to finish the scrapbooking of 2008 (i want to make an annual of the non festival / holiday happenings. But i started, made 4 pages in January and still did not progress. OK of to make the progress!!!
Hedwig

Right now I am into beaded trims so I have a few of those on my desk. There is some Ten Seconds Studio metal and some paint also on my desk. I have tried my hand at collage.I'm kinda liking it.My desk is an absolute mess at all times. I always have at least three things going at one time. It's nice to know even the pros are messy too. Thanks, ms.cheryl

Messy table here. I like to pull things out and see if they might work with whatever I am working on. Problem is, I don't put them back after I am done. Oh well!
Not working on anything this minute, but thinking about doing some Easter lo's.

Um, totally have the movie "Singles" for the next time I scrap and lots of Studio Calico goodness that I haven't had a chance to break into yet. Four cut-out aprons ready to be sewn and an iron :)
I better get going!

oh goodness am i ever!!! my scrap table is a disaster right now! i have bills and projects galore for my 3 DTs that im working on!!! They tend to spread out onto my office desk and the guest bed and any other surface i can find until i have the time to go and clean up!