Like many of you, I am seriously addicted to bling! I love bling in all of its various forms – beautiful gems, sparkly jewels, shaped rhinestones, precious pearls. I like to keep generous amounts of bling on hand. Not only does that make it easier to find the right size, color, and shape I want […]
Organization: Beautiful Bountiful Buttons
I’m not sure when my fascination with buttons began, but somewhere along the line, I discovered that buttons were good for more than fastening one’s clothes, and a love for this versatile embellishment was born! I collect buttons in all colors, shapes, and sizes. I count pretty delicate buttons with intricate floral and filligree designs […]
Organizational Blog Hop: Ink Pad Storage
Welcome to Create With Joy! Today, I am participating in an Organizational Blog Hop with a few of my friends from Stamping Bloggers! We all love to create heirlooms and gifts for our families and friends. However, staying organized during the process can challenge even the best of us! So, we’ve put our heads together […]
WOYWW 13: The Dynamic Duo
Greetings from Tsunami and Legend! Although my boys enjoy hanging out with one another, it is rare that I capture a decent shot of the two of them together. Part of it stems from the fact that it’s hard to get them to look at the camera at the same time – the other part […]
Organization: Ribbon Storage Part 1
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. A. A. Milne I never knew how much I loved ribbon until I sat down to organize it. Left unchecked, ribbons run rampant in The Paper Palace! Wide ribbon untouched on their original rolls. Cute rolls of printed mini ribbon. Ribbon wrapped neatly around […]
Organization: A Place For Lace
Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up. A. A. Milne I have always loved lace. Several years ago, I began to collect lace for my projects. For the longest time, however, a good storage solution for my beautiful trims eluded me, […]
WOYWW #3 – Time To Clean & Organize!
Monday morning, when I walked into the Paper Palace, this was the sight that greeted me. It was not a pretty picture, to say the least. It was, quite frankly, a MESS. Now, I’ve tolerated bigger messes before – after all, there was still some usable space on the desk – but I wasn’t feeling […]