Scrapping in small space

When I needed all my scrapping stuff to be put away when I was done I worked out of a rolling scrap bag and a card board box with a lid. The box sat on top of the cart usually in my bedroom out of the way. It worked really well. Now that I have more room I'm all spread out.

Lynne

I started off with a cropper hopper workstation for my paper and stickers and all and an iris cart for everything else.. I just rolled them both over to the kitchen table and put one on each side... gave me lots of room... and they rolled away when i was done.... now I occupy a 8x8 room by myself!!!

Welcome, Abby and yes, you can scrap with a pile of stuff and no storage space! We have al done it at one time or other. If I can clear off tale space...I scrap. lol

Hugs, Sabrina in Kentucky

a good friend is a life long treasure

I do not have any space to scrap either so I feel your pain Abby! I scrap at my dining room table. All of my supplies are in my rolling NaNavigator rolling cart and 3 creative memories bags. I pretty much got to the point that when I clean everything up it is all in the bag and I store it in my hall closet or behind a chaise lounge that I have in my living room in the corner of the room. When I don't clean everything up I leave it on my dining room table and have some of the bags on some of the chairs. I have everything covered up with a table cloth so nothing will get on everything when I am not using it and my poor family has to eat at the 2 barstools that I have by the counter and on the couch with t.v. trays. Very cluttered but I have to make do.

I could store a lot of my things on a bay window that I have by my dining room table. Right now it has the kids' art supplies and my cook books. I always have the blinds shut so you do not see any of the stuff. My only problem with storing my scrapbooking supplies is that the window gets a lot of sun and heat coming through it. If the girls do not shut the drawers with the crayons in them they totally melt and I do not want to put my scrapping stuff there if it gets so hot. I guess I would have to put some major tinting on the window to block out the sun before I even thought of putting my scrap stuff there. It would keep most of my stuff out of sight though and it would be right by the dining room table. Another option for me would be to get rid of a piece of furniture in my living or family room and get one of those craft work station armoires. Everything stores inside it and you can just close it up when you are done. I belive they have those at Target or Walmart sometimes. Rolling cart with the drawers work well. Something that you could fit under or next to your table might help. You could go to a friends house to scrap also. A pain but another option.

Good luck Abby and please don't let a small space stop you from scrapping!

Hey Amy, I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who uses their dining room table. It only gets cleared off if we are having company. :-) I think my hubby prefers to eat on a tv tray anyway so he can watch the Simpsons!

-- Cathy So. California

I'm with you there. Dining room table covered except for 2 places for my children to eat. So, sad... I often think we should have dinner together more often. We eat together when we're out or at someone else's house. Soon to be fixed though with the room addition YAHOO! Check out the pictures on my Webshots account.

I've seen where you can put a work surface in a closet and hand as much as possible (peg board with hooks helps), then when you need to work, you open the closet doors and pull up a chair. Company coming? Take the chair away and close the door.

Cecelia

Wow Lynne that's going to be a great craft room. I'm so jealous!

How wonderful for you!!

oooooo... looks like there is room for me too!! *G*

OK,I'm going to get back to it. I pulled out the two scrabooks I've done, and I like them so much. I really LOVE to look at the pages, and so do the kids (25, 21 and 19). I HAVE a cropper hopper, and I'm just going to get into the habit of doing one page at at time and putting stuff away so I don't drive myself nuts.

First page: graduation page for my daughter who graduated two years ago! We just realized, when I decided to do that, that we ordered her graduation photo and never got it. So Monday, I call the high school! Second page will be my son's Karmann Ghia renovation. We have a photo of him in the car when he was two, and he just fixed it up to drive in it and it looks beautiful.

So...I'm back at it. Thank you!

Abby

Hi Abby :)

We live in what we call in South Africa a "town house". I think it is the equivelant of what is called a Condo in the States. In any event - we don't have that much space and our diningroom doubles as a play/hobby/study room. I also do my scrapping on my dinningroom table. The diningroom table is actually a pool table for which we had a wooden tabletop made. Fortunately we received biggish offcuts of the wood and I work on this and my craft mat as not to damage the table top. My Papers and cardstocks I keep in a three tiered portable trolley (a vegetable trolley in its previous life ) and my supplies I keep in a HUGE toolbox. I find that the tray supplied with the toolbox works very well for all you small thingies like beads, buttons, embelishments etc. We have storage under our stairs, and when I'm fininsh, It's stored away easily. However, I must confess, over the weekends, everything stays outside!

Hoping you get started again soon!

Judy, SA

One thing I've noticed with kids is, if you go through their toys and get rid of anything they don't really play with (most kids just dump stuff to find things) they don't even notice and you can usually get rid of about half... get one or two of the wide iris carts for toys and voila!

Be sure to keep us updated as to your progress.

Katrina in KS (another dr table scrapper)

I probably do this every 4- 6 months, but more toys seem to accumulate. My problem is that under the stairs they have just bins and bins of their books, their board games and their puzzles. This stuff I can not get rid of.