WOYWW #195 ~ Clear Sort ~ Sorta Fini

Hey There!

You guys, it's the end of Febberary!  Holy knees and butterscotch.

It's time once again for What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday (WOYWW), a mahoosive blog hop brought to us by the invigorating Ms. Julia.   I hope you check it out if you don't know about it!

 

My desk today is actually Part Two of my desk last week where I showed you that since I now have too many clear stamps to keep filed up in my head, I need to sort them like I have sorted my woodens for years and a decade. 

 

Listen, if you even THINK you might like to do a similar system, start now.  It's so much easier to start from the beginning or early on, than to go back and create order out of old chaos.  It's like organizing photos.  I see you nodding.

 

So it's taken me the whole week and I've still got more to do, but I've done enough to share with you before you lose complete interest, and who could blame you?  Some of you mentioned that I made it clear (ha ha) what my concept was, but not my execution and you were interested in seeing that part.  This is that part.

 

Here are my finished clear stamp cases, ready for the shelves:

You can see that there are two types of cases.  There are Stampin' Up plastic cases and CD cases.  I'd love to have all the cases be the same size, but some "themes" require the bigger SU cases, some don't, and because the bigger SU cases are more expensive, I use CD cases for the smaller themes.  I have to say I do love those SU cases, which you can buy empty.  I believe they are basically DVD cases.

 

Here they all are back up in their cup board.  (That's one cupboard, zoomed, not three cupboards full!)

Notice that not only are my cases not all the same, but my labels are not font identical.  So there.  That means that despite coming up with the name, and despite outward appearances, I don't have "clinical" Organized Crafting Disorder.  I just have garden-variety OCD.

 

Here is a close-up of both types of cases which shows what I mean by my "themes."

I hope this has helped to give you the completed picture of my style of organization.  For me, there is just no way I could remember that I had all those sweet little "hello" stamps in different stamp sets if I didn't give them their own case.

 

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And finally, here's the next installment. Not for you, I think you now get the idea, but for me. This is my "birthday" drawer of woodens. I just tossed in my clear birthday sediments, but I think they will be cased and shelved soon. 

I thought about keeping them together in the drawer, but I think I will do better putting those clear birthdays up on the shelf and looking in both places if I want a birthday sediment.  Not only does it get my bass up and out of the chair, but I'm one of those people who can't see the forest for the trees.  Once it's layered, I only see the stuff on top, KWIM?  I have to hang my clothes up for the same reason. 

 

It was very interesting reading your thoughts last week about your individual preferences.  I  know I'm fortunate to be blessed with enough space to organize in a way that works most efficiently for me, and not in a way forced on me by space men.  Wait, no.  I mean limits, space limits.  I'm always amazed by folks who can function with lots of layers with great skill, knowing where everything is.  A lot of you WOYWW folks can do just that!

 

Thank you, friends, for hopping to my blog.  Enjoy the rest of the WOYWW hippy hop and thanks for letting me know you were here so I can return the flavor!

 

In fact, enjoy your entire day, wherever you hop to!  No, seriously, enjoy your day.  LITS*!

 

*Life Is Too Short!