Way to go! This is the last week of our 2peas photography course to Taking Better Photos.

Thank you to all who've participated throughout the weeks and shared their photos! We are so proud of you and really enjoyed working with all of you!

Happy Graduation Day!

 I give you the Exhibit  A:

This is my scrapdesk.  I figured I didnt want to scare too many people so you will only have to endure a picture of the desk.  No more scraproom pics from me. Did I just finish a week working on some huge project? No. Does my desk always look this way? Pretty much, yeah.  Does my house look like this? No, but there are time when its pretty untidy. For some reason, the clutter and chaos is reserved for this tiny room. And yes... I actutally get LOTS of stuff done here. I know its hard to believe, but I think I actually function better in this kind of environment than I do in an organized one.

See... not all of us are organizational goddesses. Some of us are HIGHLY impaired in this arena. 

Ive tried to incorporate some order. I recently bought one of those clip it up things and I love it. Its very very cool. I do tend to keep things I use close by  - on the desk, in the baskets on the floor, on the clothesline beside my desk - but its not micro managed at all. I could probably use some help, but most days Im honestly very comfortable on how it is. It works for me.

Recently I threw a TON of stuff out. Boxes of stuff. One of the many problems with being disorganized is that you have no recollection of what you have and what you havent. The product gets placed under piles of other product, stuffed into drawers or lost in the shuffle.  I had WAY too much. I thought of selling it. I actually called my lss to see if they were going to have any of those garage sale things where you rent a table and sell your stash, but they werent. So in the trash it went. Tons of stuff. I can not emphasize that enough. Tons. 

Its made a big difference. I can walk into my room now. I dont have piles of things on the floor anymore. Actually I have some - but they're supposed to be like that. lol  I feel better about the freed up space and lack of unused clutter.  And I gotta say, it was such a huge weight off me to get rid of so much stuff. It felt good. I wasnt really expecting that feeling, but once I started throwing stuff out I coudlnt stop. It felt really, really good.

So my advice to unorganized people like me: purge from time to time.  I highly recommend it. :)

 As Joanna mentioned, it's get organized month at 2peas...So, I thought I'd share two of my organizational spaces. The first is a shelving unit I have that I think I got really lucky with, considering the bottom bins hold 12x12 paper and the top bins are the perfect width for American Crafts stickers and rub-ons. :) (Pardon the mess in the hallway, we are renovating two bathrooms right now!)

The second is my bulletin board. I keep two calendars here...One is decorative and other functional. The one with the tabs is from Real Simple/Target and I use it to keep track of scrapbooking deadlines and some family stuff.

Laura K.

Have you noticed that it's Get Organized month here at 2peas?

I thought I'd kick off the month with a little organizational space share from my office.

This is our apothecary-cabinet lookalike (because it's not really an antique, because I'm allergic to dust and old things and we just bought it on clearance at overstock.com) that resides in a small corner of the room. I am always attracted to anything with drawers, and this definitely suits my needs for storing small things!

It came with all those little tabs so that I could label every drawer, but before I had finished labeling each one Cole decided to take over - so half the drawers are labeled correctly and the other half are gibberish...

Actually, what I really like about this particular piece is that while the entire right hand side of the cabinet is small drawers the left-hand side is really just made to look like drawers, and is, instead, 2 cabinets that open up for storing bigger objects on shelves.

Here's a glimpse of the cabinet with drawers/doors open. I use the small drawers to store things like ribbon, punches, buttons, etc and then my extra adhesive (and DVDs) are stacked inside one of the shelves.

Joanna