Love my 'Love Elsie' stash!

I have a mild obsession with all things from the 'Love, Elsie' brand and have been building my stash for a long time now.  I love the funky colours, free hand style, doodling and range of themes :)

The collection has everything from chipboard frames, to gel stickers, to rubber charms to albums and idea books....a never ending supply of creative fun!

Whilst browsing the internet recently, I came upon an online shop that was having a Love Elsie sale (50% off!) so bought loads of stuff!! The recipe box (in the top left corner) was my most recent e-bay purchase.  I won it from a lady in Florida for only $5, total bargain and it has tons of ideas in it.  There's over 100 'recipe' cards which each have a layout idea and how to make it :)

Anyway, the brand came out in 2007 and alot of online shops are now permanently out-of-stock so i'll be using my stash sparingly.

I was recently browsing my local pound-land and they've got some great craft supplies in there....

Packets of self adhesive bling, I got 3 packs, this stuff is quite expensive in scrapbook shops.  Also got glue dots which are identical to the expensive ones in craft shops and also got 3 packs of foam adhesive which comes in a roll and pre-cut mini rectangles, so handy :)

So that's all my recent stash purchases, will update with some recent layouts in the next post x x

my new scrapbook space

I only have a small area of our bedroom for my scrapbooking space so I had to use it wisely. I got the desk off e-bay for a bargain £21, it's so great as a scrapbook desk because it's got lots of storage :) Also the table isn't very deep so it doesn't impose much into our room.

I bought the CD racks (the towers at either end of the desk) from Argos and my dad helped me assemble them :)  The shelving unit in the middle was from a furniture charity shop for the bargain price of £6! I painted it the same colour as our bedroom wall so it was all nice and uniform.  My hubby then screwed some battoning onto the back of the unit and screwed it into the wall through the backboard.  I had to hold it up there whilst he screwed it in place and my arms were burning and shaking from the weight of it!

It was really fun orgainsing all my stuff onto it.  It looks so pretty and inspiring with all my stash on display! I made a little banner using a Maya Road chipboard coaster album.  I then lined up all my Cosmo Cricket 12x12 chipboard element pages at the back of the desk.  My most prized possesion at the moment is my Love Elsie recipe box then I won off e-bay from a lady in Florida :)

My little lamp was a cast off from my sister and it co-ordinates perfectly but this area of the room is flooded with light all afternoon which is lovely.  Anyway just wanted to show how much could be done with a small amount of space.  I've been looking at you-tube videos of women in America that have entire rooms devoted to their hobby and have floor to ceiling storage for their thousands of stamps and posh gizzmos and gadgets and machines. Don't know where they find the time to use it all! Not that i'm jealous in any way!