Finally Done
Hi!
Once I made the decision to stop being a SU demo, this fall. It took over a year to get to that point. I decided to make some changes in my stamping/craft area. I began to make the switch from stamping for "work" to stamping for "play". Which also means a change in how the room is layed out, how my supplies and stamps are kept. No longer did I have to keep the business and current stuff separate from the retired and non SU stuff. I�m not anti-SU, I just had come to the end of 11 years of being a demo and I'm loving the freedom of playing.
Back during the summer in an effort to make room for my growing stamp collection I started unmounting all my stamps to go to a clear block system. I'm using TAC blocks that I bought a while back. We're talking unmounting 6,000 images so it took awhile. I was able to get about 2/3 done during the summer break and then I went back to work. So I've spent the past 3 days working on what was left. Both my thumbs and index fingers are very sore, but they are all unmounted. Yeah!!!!
I started with double stick tape and sticking the dies to cardstock and slipping them in document holders. This does work great except half the time the tape is coming off with the die. So this last 1/3 of the dies are being done with Tack It over glue and seems to be working better. I'll go back and redo the taped dies later on this year. Not right now, I'm just tired of looking at unmounted stamps right now. LOL!!! The dies are now stored in binders, I do have to go back through the binders, make sure all pages are in the right category and then make labels for the binders.
And yes, I even unmounted all my SU stamps. I did not unmount the antique collection of stamps, I didn't unmount the wheel stamps either. I have about 2 dozen stamps I won't be able to unmount either because they are too large, even for my largest clear block or are so thin that I can't get them off the foam rubber. But that's okay. One drawer of mounted stamps is okay.
I will use the space in the empty Iris cart drawers to hold supplies that are stashed around the house in shoe boxes and such. I can put the Sizzix dies in a couple drawers, all the polymer clay in one place, move some sewing supplies into some drawers and such. It'll help clear out some of the clutter around my craft area. One Iris cart is for DD and her art supplies. This is my goal for the New Year, to get this are cleaned up, organized and my supplies easy to reach. No more digging through a pile of boxes to find "the box". LOL!!!
I just thought I'd share with people who would understand, DH and the kids just think I'm weird. LOL!!!
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