A New Improved Dungeon **Lots of pictures**

First off, I'd like to say that confession is good for the soul (yesterday's post.) I felt I needed to be honest with myself and make it clear to anyone who reads the blog (and possibly cares) that I'm not perfect when it comes to things like not spending $. I'm trying to save up, but the urges get to you sometimes.

On Saturday I mentioned that I needed to clean the Dungeon - my stamping area in the basement. It was a mess and desperately needed to be organized. I also promised pictures.

I headed down there yesterday afternoon with my handy-dandy iPod and set off to work. (I had laundry going as well, so multi-tasking was the name of the game yesterday.)

Two and a half hours later, it's not perfect, but it's a whole lot better than it was.

Before pictures:

A random box I brought downstairs and never cleaned out (I actually stacked stuff on top of it.) A crate of extra SU cardstock and a pile of things to be altered.

Cart where I put my SU stamps.

The view down my table.

My dp rack and area around it.
Papertrey cardstock (and surrounding mess.)

Table - closest to my ink caddy.

Table - where I sit and work.

Table - dumping ground.

Middle/After Pictures:

The box is gone! (the rest of that stuff isn't mine.)
Yeah, I know, the crate looks messier than before. I moved all my dp into one place and I had more alterables to store.

View down the table. Yeah, it's worse - I had to put stuff someplace in order to sort it.
The cleaned off dp rack and new storage.

Hey, you can see my box of Papertrey cardstock! (which will be replaced by a file crate and files)

Another shot of the messy tabletop. But hey, we're making progress! Final status of the cart - Cuttlebug alphabets, plates and Nestabilities are stored in that purple storage caddy on top. View down the table. I figured out that the tray is perfect for the rolls of ribbon I've had floating around. Messy tabletop - not so messy now!

A clean tabletop!

Promised Pictures

So I promised you the pictures of my newly cleaned Dungeon. Well, it's a little more organized than before. I wouldn't go out and say it's clean. :)

But...

The new place for my extra paper and a whole bunch of alterable items.

Where I sit.

Looking down the table from the file box holding all my cardstock.

I also got some stamping done between cleaning and fireworks and more cleaning - stuff from another part of the Dungeon (not my stamping part) went to Salvation Army.

The card for the Featured Stamper today (wow, I'm posting a picture the day of the challenge!) I wanted to put all the greens together to create a spring or summery scene. The UTEE (ultra thick embossing enamel) had glitter in it, so my scene is all glittery.

Stamps: SU - Lovely as a Tree. Paper: Old Olive, Certainly Celery, Spring Moss, Whisper White. Ink: Spring Moss, Old Olive, Certainly Celery, Palette Burnt Umber, Versamark. Accessories: UTEE, dimensionals, cuttlebug, paper piercer.

Hoping everyone had a wonderful weekend and has a great week,

The Dungeon's been cleaned

On Wednesday, we had a storm. I actually need to clarify that. Have you ever seen the newsclips that are videotaped DURING a hurricane with the wind swirling and the rain going full force? That's what was unleashed on us Wednesday afternoon and night. Power's out in some places around the city - and not expected to be back until Monday. Thankfully, I didn't lose power.

But we do have a leaky Dungeon. Some leaks are pretty close to my stamping area, others are in another part of the Dungeon. Regardless, my stamping stuff has exploded and I needed to organize it to get it under control.

So while I didn't have internet or cable Wednesday night, I cleaned up. The box o' projects is now gone - I went through it and have grouped things that belong together and put them on a spare shelf. Anything I don't want is going into a "white elephant" or blog candy pile.

I have a few things I still need to do, so when I'm finished I definitely will take pictures. This needs to be documented!

Hope everyone is having a wonderful 4th of July,

View of the Dungeon

Every time I take pictures of my workspace - commonly called "the Dungeon" because it's down in the basement - I swear that it's not normally that messy. Then I surpass the last picture in messiness.

So... here are the most recent pictures of my area: The first one is standing from the end of the table looking down towards my inkpad holder and the other is from right behind my work chair.

The main problem is that I was in a hurry after I did the WT challenge this day and didn't clean up.

I also have my card for the STCC done and ready to be uploaded. I needed help figuring out the colors, so I used the SU color combos website at www.scraptitude.com/colorcombo Colors for today are: Purely Pomegranate, Old Olive, River Rock, and Close to Cocoa.

Stamps: Papertrey - Out on a Limb. Paper: Purely Pomegranate, Old Olive, River Rock, Very Vanilla, Close to Cocoa dp. Ink: Purely Pomegranate, River Rock, Old Olive, Close to Cocoa, Versamark. Accessories: Ultra Thick Embossing Powder, heat tool, sponge, 1 1/4" and 1 3/8" circle punches, ticket corner punch, brads, ribbon, dimensionals.