National Scrapbook Day: Before, During, and After

Along with all the scrapbook challenges, there were dozens of games going on during the National Scrapbook Day event at A Cherry on Top. I played along with most of them. Not only was it a lot of fun, but I won a prize for one of them! I also won a bunch of Cherry Points. 

One of the games asked us to take three sets of pictures of our workspaces: before the challenges started, in the middle of the action, and at the end of the weekend. I thought it would be fun to share those photos with you. 

I always do a thorough cleanup before NSD. Here's my scraproom the day before the event started. 

My desk pretty much never looks like this. 

Here's what my room looked like in the middle of the day on Saturday after I'd been scrapping for a day and a half. There are in-progress layouts on the desk to the right of the door and on the counter under the window. There are two groups of layouts on the floor. The ones are the far right are done and ready to be scanned. The ones to the left are ones I started for specific challenges but hadn't finished. There are piles of paper on the floor behind my chair. 

This is closer to what my desk usually looks like. In the photo, you'll see piles of sticker books, rub-on packs, paper scraps, and the first stages of the layout about our bonded buns. That little notebook between my paper trimmers and the layout is what I use to record the supplies I use on each page. I've used the same system since 2008. 

I took this picture on Sunday afternoon. All of the completed layouts are off the floor, scanned, and in albums. One incomplete layout is on the floor, because I still hoped to finish it for a challenge (yet it's still not done now, 2+ weeks later). The in-progress layouts that were under the window are now piled on top of the remaining ones on the desk to the right of the door. There are still papers on the floor, but fewer than before. 

This year, I did a really good job of cleaning up between projects, so there wasn't too much on my desk in the after photo. That's the layout about Picnic Day. I'd pulled a bunch of different yellow and blues papers, which you can see underneath the stack of photos. No green papers - I hadn't decided yet to use green on the layout.  

I'm glad this NSD game inspired me to photograph my work area, as that's something I rarely do. I'm also thinking that taking photos I knew people would see might be what led me to do a better job cleaning up between projects than I usually do. Win-win!