It's A Tie!!!

Hey, everyone!

WOW!!! You all know how to show the love!!! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! What a fun year it has been! Yesterday was my one year blogaversary and I had decided earlier this month that I wanted to do something special for this occasion! You all know what blog candy is, right? (If not, it's a fun prize given to someone who is usually randomly chosen.) This time, however, I decided to give a prize to the person who left me the most love on my blog all month. I wasn't expecting a tie but no worries because I have enough for both of you ladies! The winners (PLURAL) are:

CHRISTINA WERNSTRUM

BRENDA HAUFF

I will wait to post photos of what you ladies won until I get the second prize package ready to go! Thank you both so much!!! I would also like to thank every one of you who have been so kind to visit me so often and leave me encouraging comments. It really makes it all worthwhile! I am excited to see what this second year of blogging has in store!

Since I have been working on getting my new craft space organized, I will show you some photos. Let me know what you think!

This is a rolling cart I got back when our Walmart store wasn't a SUPER Walmart. I liked the old store much better! This only cost me $5 and it stores all my files. I love it!

This is another part of the basement I claimed. It was full of paint cans and supplies and everything you could imagine! I moved it all to another part of the basement and dusted the shelves off with some furniture polish. I then took my sand paper and sanded all the shelves down and then started filling it up with some baskets and things I have bought over the years. Can you tell what my favorite colors are? LOL The hanging white storage unit now has all my envelopes in it. My index cards are in the gray basket and then my already cut and scored cards are in the blue basket below the envelopes. I love my iPod that my brother gave me! It keeps me company with all my favorite songs...well a LOT of my favorite songs! LOL The other two containers on that shelf are empty...for now! The two small black and white checkered baskets are handy. One has some cleaning cloths in it for rubbing fingerprints off photos when scrapbooking and the other has several sticky note pads. The white container has my Creative Memories punches that I have had for several years now back when I started to scrapbook! The blue canvas container has my TAC punches in it. The small baskets are now on the next shelf down, actually and the clear tote in the next photo swapped places with it. That tote has my miscellaneous punches, label maker, Crop-A-Dile in it. The sunflower basket has some RAK's I have received and am eager to play with soon!

The small basket has my business cards in it. The blue pail behind it has unfinished projects in it. My Xyron 150 is now in front of my large Xyron and the baskets to the right of it have glue dots, pop dots, glue sticks, wonder tape, foam tape, Duck tape runners, glitter glue sticks, Stickles and paint.

The yellow basket on the left has some baggies in it. The baggies contain punched out shapes, each baggie separated by a particular paper. The basket below it has images I have received as RAKs and some that I have made and didn't use. The next basket has tags in it that I have made and some that were given to me. Then the two white baskets in the back have punched out shapes. The one on the left has scalloped circles and the one on the right has various shapes. The two baskets in the front have tags that are blank and then the one on the right has blank word windows from a punch I got at Hobby Lobby a while back. On the bottom shelf I have some packing tape and ribbon!

This is another shelf I am using downstairs. I have had it for years and my mom had it for years before I got it!!! On the top left side of the shelf is my ink pads that I got from Hobby Lobby a while back. The chalks are from Memory Lane Scrapbooking Store where I was teaching classes for a while. I got it right after they first opened so it's been a little while! Then I have some TAC inks and some Cat's Eye Ink Pads from the scrapbook store!

More TAC ink pads and a couple more ink pads from the scrapbook store.
The first basket on the middle shelf has my wheels, reinkers and cartridges along with a handle. I haven't ever used any of this yet and it's been a while since I got it all. Maybe I can play with it after I get everything where it belongs! Then the next basket has my sponges, daubers, swabs, cotton balls, etc. The plastic container with a lid has my acrylic blocks inside of it. Very handy for keeping them all together. The botoom row has some markers I got from the Dollar Tree for when kids craft with me. Then I have all my TAC markers and pens in the Clam Shell case. My Bic Mark It's are in their case beside that. I still have colored pencils, watercolor pencils, journaling pens and more markers to put away but at least this is a good start. I have a lot more to get done and hopefully over the next couple days I will make even more progress. Thanks for hanging out with me. I hope you will come back tomorrow to see the prizes for Christina and Brenda. I am excited!!!

Hugs,