Showing Off!! Sorry, I Just Had To. . .

Hey Everybody!!! I just had to show off my Christmas gifts. Am I being tacky for posting them? I don't mean to be. . .I'm just happy that I received them.

I'm really not a materalistic person but when it comes to crafting, I'm nuts about it. I don't buy expensive clothes, jewelry, shoes. . .as a matter of fact, I don't buy anything but craft stuff for myself.

I really wanted a set of the Copic 72 sketch marker and what did my husband do? He bought me the WHOLE SHABANG! Okay. . .I actually cried when I opened the box. LOL! I was expecting one set. But no. . .he bought all of the colors and more. . .the air brush tool, multi-liners, the regular Copic markers, the broad markers, refills, non-bleed drawing pads, and extra nibs. Honestly, I really didn't need ALL of them but hey, I'm not complaining. I guess I will need to do a lot coloring before they dry up, huh!

I organized the markers by color and number. It's much easier to have them organized by number. I do recommend that you hold the containers with large rubber bands shown in the picture. Why? Well, I've picked up the containers upside down on two occasion and all the pens fell out of their slots and it's a major pain to return the markers into their slots. I also received a bunch of other stuff including a photo studio box. Here are a few of the other stuff I got for Christmas.

Here is my new flat screen TV/DVD player for my craft room and my digi video recorder. My other regular TV took up too much space. The digital video recorder is fabulous because I now can record my tutorials on a small video recorder with more memory. I previously used my digital camera which took up a lot of my memory.

Here's a picture of my new crafting table I got for Christmas. I still have my other stamping desk but this one is the tall ones. . .you know . . .the scrapbooking type of tables. The height of the table is counter height and it has two open area and shelves to the left and right of the table. It's the type of table that you stand up to craft or sit on a high stool.

I placed it smack dab in the middle of my room. I love it. When I work on the table, I stand and stamp. On the other side is my stool and I do my scrapbooking on that side. It's a big square table so I have a lot of room to do both stamping and scrapping.

I actually was going to buy the craft table myself when I saved enough money but now I don't have to! Whoohoo!

The craft table has a drawer that pulls out and the front pulls down. I store my Scor-pal in there. Under the desk is my scraps in a file folder and file where my SU cardstock used to be stored.

The left side of my craft table contains scrapbook paper and all my SU cardstock that I chose to keep upstairs in my room. The rest of my designer papers are stored in the garage gathering dust. The organizer contains my stamped images that I store for future use.

The SU cardstocks were previously in file folders and contained in a pull out filer. My scraps are now in the pull out filer.

This is the right shelving of my desk. It contains my unmounted stamps contained in folders. My goal is to put at least 50% of all my wood mounted stamps in these type of folders. I'm planning to change out the majority of my plastic containers to the large wicker baskets shown in the picture. It just looks so much prettier than the clear containers. An antique store in my neighborhood was selling the large ones for $1.00 a piece and the small ones for 20 cents. Well, I can't pass up a GOOD sale so I bought about 20 of the large baskets and about 15 of the smaller ones. Hey, it was a steal!!!