Ok… Now I’m totally embarassed. I feel like I should at LEAST try to explain the above picture. At Christmas time all of the extra stuff we didn’t know what to do with during the holidays was tossed into this room. Then, we cleaned out and reorganized several closets this spring and all of those things that we didn’t know what to do with ended up in here. It’s a total disaster. I’m not sure it’s EVER been this bad before. Sadly, it’s not even “scrapbooking” stuff that’s the problem. The problem is OTHER stuff that has been piled into my scrapbooking room. If I could ever reclaim this room then I think I could make some progress on my albums.

So, I’m going to commit to working on this room for at least an hour a day until it’s clean. I’m going to start with one section at a time hoping that possibly by the end of the week I *might* be able to start on a few scrapbooking pages.

You might wonder WHERE in the world anyone would have scrapbooked if they had come over on a Monday in June. We would have worked in the library which is right next to my scrapbooking room!

Ok. Now that my mess is out in the open I KNOW I’ll have to do something about it or SOMEONE is bound to chew me out, right? In a nice, loving, motivating, and encouraging way, PLEASE! If you’re a real life friend who feels sorry for me (especially one named LISA) you may just want to come over and help or at least call and make sure I find my way out of this room! Lisa loves to organize anything related to scrapbooking. I’m indebted to her for coming over last year to organize my scrapbooking room shelves and drawers! *THEY* are, thankfully, still nicely organized! However, my dh said I should be ashamed of myself for letting this room get so out of hand when Lisa spent so much time organizing my scrapbooking materials for me! So, if I can’t get it organized for *me*… I’ll get it organized for LISA!

Anyone else care to share any scrapbooking things they need to organize? Remember it can be *anything* related to scrapbooking…..even colored pencils or pens that have gotten out of hand. No mess is too big or too small to be considered for the contest. Again, the goal is to motivate and encourage each other to spend any amount of time we can on our projects.