Dance Year Comes to an End!

Well it actually ended back in the beginning of April but I've been quite busy.  It comes time to put together and album to celebrate Isabelle's journey throughout the dance year.  Wow this year was a busy but exciting one.  Alot more conventions and competions than we normally do along with first time scholarships for the bubbly 9yr old.

The album is not complete although i worked on it every night durning our beach trip and at my local Micheals NSD crop.  I made it all way through the competition season and only have recital and Debbie Allen performance left.  I went with 8 1/2x 11 size because i knew it would just too much at the 12x12 size.  I also decided to use We R Memory Keepers divided protectors.  They hold 4x6 photos in all orientations and made quick pages.

So here we go.....

 Company Sleepover

 Toliet Paper Fashion Show

 Big Sis / Dolly Dingkle (our version of Halloween)

 School Talent Show - She won 1st Place

 Family Showoff Day

 Reflections of the Season (Christmas Performance)

 West Coast / Hollywood Vibe

 More Hollywood Vibe - she likes to take pics with each of the teachers

 

Jump

 Jump - 1st Scholarship / iHollywood Dance

iHollywood Dance

 iHollywood Dance - favorite teachers!

 iHollywood Dance - Another Scholarship / NUVO

 NUVO

 NUVO / VIP Dance

 VIP & Alyse / 7th Year Dance Charm

Recital - "Dance Green" / "Creep"



Supplies: Mostly American Crafts, manily "Dear Lizzy Enchanted" ..... more detailed supply listed when i blog about the finished album.

So my thoughts on next year's album:  Have her help me and complete pages throughout the year instead of all at once.  

So have you heard of SMASH?  Well it's K & Company's newest album journal and since i pre-ordered it should be on my doorstep any day now.  I pitched the idea of using a smash album to Isabelle for next year's dance album and have her hooked.  I figured she could use it throughout the year and document her own journey (with my help of course!).  We discovered she could have her teachers autograph straight into her SMASH journal and i would use my poloraid pogo printer to print her pictures with them.  BRILLIANT!  The SMASH journal will also be a great place for her to "SMASH" her keepsakes from our trips..... ie. resturant napkins, convention bracelets, hotel room keys, etc.  I ordered her the "pretty pink" one (the doodle red for myself) and all the accessories.  Can't wait!

Scrapscription Mini turned Graduation Gift

So my latest scrapscription kit came in this past week.  It was entitled "Life Moves On" and was a binder album.  From the moment i opened the kit and started assembling, I decided this would make the perfect graduatin gift for my cousin who was finishing LSU.  I figured it was big enough she could put 4 yrs worth of memories in one album.  I made a few adapations and added extra tags and pages.  Here is a few pages from the finished project:

I really enjoyed putting this album together.  Scrapscription makes it so easy with their detailed instructions that come with the kits.

Needless to say she opened it and was astonished at the details.  Then she asked if i would help her fill it with her pics and memories.  No problem!

National Scrapbooking Day or Week?

Well as most of you know May 7th was National Scrapbooking Day.......it turned into National Scrapbook Week for me.  I participated in both Studio Calico's NSD Challenges and BPC's Creative Crop.  Here are  few of my entries:

SC Scavenger Hunt - favorite SC product, scrap area, favorite scrap beverage, SC promotion, SC website/blog

 5 minute Organize challenge: filed and tagged my latest printed pics

Wood Challenge:

Supplies: American Crafts Hello Sunshine PP "Delight" (35399), Zing "Apricot" (27136); Crate Paper Emma's Shoppe PP "Sweets" (ES857); Making Memories "With Love" flower brads (34816); Maya Road Chipboard "Snapshot Words"; Basic Grey "Hello Luscious" die cut (3257); Pink Paislee Wood Alpha "Daily Junique" (00497)

Studio Calico kits: Moses Supposes, Make'em Laugh, Tap Dance

Recipe Challenge: colored cardstock, 3 brads, 3 buttons, stitching

Supplies: American Crafts cardstock kraft, Thickers "Doll" fabric (53171), Elements Various Buttons "Boo!" (85512); Studio Calico PP "Cooped Up" (SCPP0063);  We R Memory Keepers "Lace Notes" (41747-7), Sew Easy Floss "Jet Stream"; Pebbles Glitter Flower Brads "Happy Go Lucky" (747076), Bazzil In Stitchz' "Ivy" floss

Studio Calico Kit: Lawn Party

Although i didn't win anything I had a blast completing the challenges.  NSD weekend was a busy one for me between challenges, Dancing for Big Buddy and leaving for the beach the following day. I continued the SC challenges(along with working on Isabelle's dance album) while at the beach throughout the next week.

My NSD week concluded with an all day crop at my local Micheals the following Saturday.  I have mixed feelings about Micheals crops.  This was my first (as it was from most of us that attended) but i felt it was kinda thrown together.  Which was surprising because i began to get the emails about the event a week prior.  I arrived when it started at 9am but many trickled in throughout the day.  By the end they had 12 of use crammed into a small room with only 4 tables.  All in all the day was still productive.  I got a handful more of pages down for Isabelle's dance album plus 2 more layouts.  I also learned a lot from my fellow croppers, which for me is the whole reason i attend these type of events.  This would be were my Silhouette vs Cricut dilemma all started.  More on this in the previous post!

Silhouette vs. Cricut

So i have a dilemma!

I have outgrown my Slice.  While i like my Slice a lot because its light, doesn't take up much room in my scrap area and the design cards are cheaper than cricut, but it only cuts up to 4 inches and i can't weld letters together or create my own wordings.   So my thought was to sell my slice and all the accessories (which is a lot, retail i have over $1200).  Right now i have it listed locally but if anyone is interested let me know and im sure we can work out a deal. 

So i had it all worked out....

My birthday was coming up, i was going to ask hobby lobby/Micheals gift cards and between the money for my slice and gift cards i would be able to purchase the expression and gypsy.  I did my research, made a list of the design cards i wanted and other accessories.  Then i realized that cricut's design software is not compatible with MAC.  Not good Not good!  Ok no biggie, i would just load the software on my work laptop.   Then at my local Micheals NSD crop a fellow cropper introduced me to the "sure cuts a lot" software, which is MAC compatible.  Great forget cricut's software i will just use this instead.  Well come to find out SCAL is not compatible with the new cricut expression 2 and cricut is in the process of using SCAL.  once again NOT GOOD!   So im back to having to use only design cards.  I started pricing those and wow they are $90.  Good thing was my LSS lets you rent design cards and have cricut's you can use when you attend crops.  Figured i would design on my gypsy and cut with their cards when i went for the crops.  Sounds like a plan!

Ok onto the other side....Silhouette.

A couple of months ago craftysteals.com had offered a silhouette bundle and a bunch of accessories and their steal of the day.  The price was actually about 1/2 off but didn't really know what the silhouette was so i moved on.  Well two weeks ago american crafts ran a week long blog posts about their designs and the silhouette.  I was intrigued!  I started researching the silhouette and realized it does just about everything the cricut does. It only cuts up to 9 inches where as the cricut cuts up to 12.  I doesn't need design cards and their design software is free and MAC compatible.  Wohoo!  You can import your own design (in .gsd format of course......i will be learning how to do this soon) and use any true type font.  You can purchase their design separately for $0.99 instead of buying the whole design cards.   Downfall with no design cards you now need a laptop to cut.  Not really a big one, but it would be great if there was an ipad "app for that"!

So here is my dilemma...... do i spend the money on the so praised cricut and have the convenience of my LSS and crops or do i get the silhouette and be the odd ball out.

Anyone out there in blog land who owns both and can vouch for either of these wonderful machines?   The plan is to have something purchased and learned by the end of the July in time for my LSS Weekend Camp Crop.

"A Week In The Life" ..... SMASH Style

I was one of the lucky smash fans to get a free mini SMASH!  yay for me!   Since SMASH production was delayed, I was saving my smash mini until i could get my hands on the big one.   Well no more, i put in my pre-order earlier in the week and decided to turn my smash into "A Week In The Life".

This past week was not a normal week for me being that I spent it at the beach but it sure made for a cute mini.

Supplies:

Smash Mini, American Crafts Heat Wave patterned paper, Remarks Dim SPF(42137), Accents Swell (42709), Font Sunset (42707), Chipboard Surfboard (42710), Serendipity CS 2 (42443), Mixed Tape Stream (61733), Cosmo Cricket Tiny Type Brown (TT579), Red (TT577), Green (TT580), Polaroid Pogo Mini Prints


Can't wait for the full SMASH line to show up on my doorstep in a couple of weeks!

Current Events Wednesday

Just a quick post today as this week is centering around DANCE and its quite busy.  Recital preparations are in full swing.  Day 1 of the Dress Rehearsal was last night. I am exhausted today!  Today is Day 2 following up with two recital shows on Saturday.   I'll leave you with a quick pic from last night.



Current Event Wednesday

I rember in grade school that my history teacher would assign us a current event project every friday.  This was his way to get us to read the newspaper at least once a week.  You got bonus points if you brought in an article that was different from anyone else.  I enjoyed this assignment( one of the few i didn't procrasinate). I would read the newspaper everynight and then put aside articles I thought were interesting.

Prompt 09 for shimelle's Blogging For Scrapbookers is to use a pattern in blogging.  I will admit i have tried this many times but never really kept up.  The past tries all had pictures needed to complete the posts.  I am going give myself the option on photos.  Starting today I will be doing Current Event Wednesday.  Instead of reporting on things happening in the news, I will list the current events in my life.

Let's begin:

• bloggin for scrapbookers over at shimelle.com is in full swing...aka the inspiration for this post.  so far i am most up to date.  I have skipped a few prompts as the content did not come to me right away and put them aside for future posts.
• Isabelle had her first reherasal for with Debbie Allen this weekend.  She so excited, she met some new friends and learned 2 of the dances.
• Its awards week at the dance studio.  Isabelle received her 7th year charm and I myself received my 21 yr charm
• Fabric sale this past weekend didn't go to well.  My aunt forgot to post an add in the local paper and soley relied on getting the word out on craigslist.  I believe she learned her lesson.  We did get a lot of the garage cleared out but I was not able to move any boxes from my house into the new one.
• started packing up the craftroom for the move.  trying to organize as i go for easy access because the craftroom in the new house will be last room completed.
• Bachelorette party coming up this weekend at the beach.  So excited but have a lot to do at work before friday.  Finished all the decorations for the party.  I will posts pics when we get back from the weekend.
• loving my new ipad2, well i guess it isn't really new anymore.   still struggling with some things like posts pictures through blogger.  buy hey im sure they have an app for that

A funny thing happened on the way to toon town....

Disneyland July 2010

I crack up everytime this photo shows up on my desktop.  Typical day in my goofball family.  This was inspired by prompt 08 of shimelle's blogging for scrapbookers.

Crafty Easter Decor

Ok lets talk Easter decor.  Since my house is in dis-array from all the packing and organizing going on, I just couldn't let Easter fly by without a little craftiness.  I found all these projects online from the many blogs I follow.

First up the subway art.  Last week cvs had a coupon for BOGO free enlargements and Hobby Lobby was having a sale on frames.  The print can be found here: Landee See, Landee Do.  There is also another one here:  Eighteen 25.  I normally stick with what the girls at Eighteen 25 create but the coupon was expiring and they hadn't released the easter one yet.  No sweat it is saved to print with the next batch when another cvs coupon comes around.  FYI..... Cvs charges $9.99 for 11 x 14 enlargement.  Both downloads come in 16x20 size, i merely printed in 11 x14.  With the BOGO i also had the st. patricks day, christmas, valentine and birthday ones printed.

Next is that adorable pom pom garland.  Again found at Eighteen 25.  I need to do some playing around with it.  It's not quite how i want it.

The instructions for the HOP letters can be found here: Craftomaniac.  I used chipboard letters from the scrapbook section of Hobby Lobby.  I like the natural kraft color.  I simply used a dot brush( or at least that what i call it) from a pack of kid brushes to dab on the white dots.  Using directions from Craftomaniac i used the wooden dowels to glue the letters on top of each other.

That cute little basket weave bunny you see there is from the Easter section at Hobby Lobby, its all half off this week. 

And last is the Button Egg Frame.  Directions can be found here: Auntie Lolo Crafts.  I didn't have any burlap but did have scraps of silk left over, so i used that and bought a 5x7 frame yesterday.

I do plan to add these cute Origami Spring Bunnies i found at Marvelously Messy,  I ran out of crafty time last night.

What Easter/Spring craftiness do you have adorning your house?  Thanks for stopping by!

The "30" List

BFS assignment today was to blog about a goal. 

Right around my 28th birthday I made a list of things I wanted to accomplish before I turned 30 and then created a layout about this list.  I turn 29 on June 16th and here is what I have been able to cross off my list.....

Supplies: Sassafras Paper - Indi Girl Pocahontas & Me (11413), American Crafts Elements - City Park Assort Brads (85517), Remarks - Dear Lizzy Enchanted Phrases (42181)

 The "30" List

1. Meet Scrappy Friends - I have made so many between CCL and Weekend crops at Memory Mania
2. Save $5000
3. Sell My Craft - my feather headbands have been sold at both the dance studio and in my aunt's booth at The Courtyard
4. Read 20 books
5. Take a Road Trip - I've driven to Houston twice this year
6. Learn to sew
7. blog every week
8. have a project published
9. make a design team
10. hold a crop
11. de-clutter my life
12. achieve wellness
13. visit a new place - I  went to Nassau Bahamas earlier this month
14. art journal
15. fall in love
16. attend a crop - I attend CCL in January and I have signed up for it again in July
17. buy a house
18. make 5 new friends
19. travel by train
20. library of memories class
21. learn 3 new things
22. scrapbooking cruise
23. daily album
24. grow out my hair - it is so long now but desperately needs a trim
25. photo shoot
26. go camping
27. get promoted
28. appear on tv - my little buddy and I are in the new Big Buddy Program commerical
29. throw a party - Halloween was celebrated at my house this past October
30. have a true picnic

I know not all of these will be accomplished, its ok.  They will just be carried onto my "35" list.   I do plan to make a layout with mini prints of all of the things that do get done.

One Photo says it all......Friendship!

A Typical Day...

Prompt 4 in "Blogging for Scrapbookers" was to blog about a topic that seems quite ordinary.  So here is a breakdown of a typical thursday in my life. 

AM....

6:30 - first alarm goes off
7:00 - second alarm goes off
7:15 - third alarm goes off
7:30 - fourth alarm goes off...... are we starting to see a pattern, i wait till the very last minute to get up
          finally wake up, shower, get dressed, etc.
8:00 - rush out the door for work
8:15/8:30 - arrive at work, all depends on the traffic/construction/idiot driving situation
9:00 - meeting
10:30 - meeting
11:00/11:30 - lunch at desk, its always a working lunch

PM....

1:30 - meeting, with all these meetings its hard to believe i get any work done, I happen to have 3 scheduled
          today
4:30 - leave work, this is the time i shoot to leave each day but depending on how busy things are or if i
          am at a stopping point, it is usually later
          run errarands/sit in traffic on the way home
7:30 - pick up Isabelle from dance ( i am the driver for the two cousins)
8:00 - drop Isabelle off at home, chat with my family
9:00 - finally get home myself, dinner, laudry, dishes, house stuff etc
11:00 - bedtime!

This is a typical weekday with variations on what times the kids need to be picked up from dance, track, band, karate, rehearsals, etc.  Thursday is typically a lighter day for the driving around!

These are a few of my favorite things.....

Current Faves.....

- dance conventions with my cousin Isabelle

- finishing the 4th twilight book before the movie comes out......i {heart} my kindle

- my new iPad 2

- getting ready to move into my new house
- monthly kits from scrapscription, haven't gotten around to putting together this months kit but i am quite excited.

- making/selling handmade hair accessories
- working from home on Wednesday's
- half days every other Friday
- spring weather in Louisiana
- photographing dance

- blogging for scrapbookers class with shimelle
- Amy Tangerine and Kelly Purkey's blogs

Let's Play Catch Up

Yes my dear blog readers, I have been slacking!  Life's been busy but good, so let me catch you up. (warning long rambling post with numerous pics)

Classes/Crops/Craftiness

- Bind It All 101 came to a closing in the beginning of March.  Although I did not complete the whole class, I did manage to get three mini books made.

- Mouse, Paper, Scissors at jessicasrague.com started toward the ended of February.  I managed to complete most of the observations, along with my observation journal.  I plan on playing catch up this weekend.  Class ends in one week.
-My LSS held part one of their CHA demo day.  Isabelle and I went to participate in three make - n - takes and so i could pick up some crafty goodies i had on order.  Also while i was there I was able to use my store credit and sign up for their July session of Camp Crop A Lot
- Blogging for Scrapbookers at shimell.com started back up on monday with a live run.  I had purchased the class back after the last live run ended but didn't get very far in the prompts.  So excited to dive back in and get the blogging going again.

Dance
-  Isabelle auditioned for Debbie Allen's summer production and made the company.  Rehearsals start in April.
-iHollywood dance convention was Feb 19-20th.  This was the first time iHollywood held a convention in Baton Rouge but it was a great one.  No competiting this time, just a weekend of dance class concluding with Isabelle becoming a Junior A-Lister Runner-up.  You go girl, that is her second scholarship this year.

-Its that time again for pictures at the dance studio.  I spent 4 days taking isabelle to the studio.  9 costumes total and the cutest headshot.
- March 18th brought on our second trip to houston this competition season.  Back at the Westin Galleria, Isabelle attended NUVO and had a blast.  The studio came back with a ton of awards, many top awards. 


Big Buddy Program
- Ashley and I brought our little buddies to the Louisiana State University Museum of Art with rest of the mentors/mentees for a saturday filled with art, bingo, a game of twister and subway for lunch.

Family
- My dad's birthday came and went(2/17). Since it fell during the week and the night we had tickets to "All Shook Up" we celebrated with dinner on saturday night.
- Innerwheels trash to treasure sale was amazing.  Found plenty of goodies for the new house!
-March started off great with a family cruise to the Bahamas on Disney's new ship "Dream".  We had an excellent time just the four of us (my mom, dad, sister, and myself) adults.  It was a relaxing week and well needed vacation.

- After getting back from the cruise we attended my cousin's briday shower.  My gift was a pre-made album to document her engagement, showers and the wedding itself.   Would you believe I spent months putting it together and did not take a single picture of the album.  Well the second part to my gift was i promised after they got back from honeymoon I would help complete the album with pictures and journaling.  So I promised to take pictures then and posts in the quite near future (wedding is the beginning of june)

Misc....but oh so important
-  iPad2 Friday was March 11, 2011.....more on this in the previous post


Upcoming/Future Fun....

- last dance convention of the season is this weekend.  Isabelle will be attending VIP!
- Big Buddy Kiwanas Fishing trip is coming up
- My aunt is having a fabric sale to clean out the shop so i can move in next month.  If you happen to live in the baton rouge area, let me know and i can get you details for the sale.
-studio calico kits for april go on sale on the 27th, so excited.
- april means its time for the window to sign up for stacey julian's Library of Memories class at BPC to open up.  Class will run in July!
- Bachelorette/Lingerie Party for my cousin is in the near future.  I asked to be in charge of the decorations, so look to the blog for plenty of crafty pictures.
- Dance Recital is in mid April
- Isabelle's performance in Debbie Allen's Dreams is the end of April.  So excited for her, how many kids can say they got to perform with the one and only Debbie Allen.
- May will start out with a well needed beach trip!

Wow looking at this list I have a busy couple of weeks coming up!  I hoped you enjoyed my catch up rambling.  I am hoping to get more smaller posts in so there is no need for this large catch up mess.

An Amazing Day!

bFollowing along with prompts for shimelle's "Blogging for Scrapbookers" class, today's assignment was remember an amazing day.  Since there has been way too many in my lifetime that have all been already blogged or documented in some way, I decided to spin the topic around to another type of amazing day. Plus one of my intentions in this class was to document the everyday happenings in life.

I been wanting to document this particular day since it happened.  It doesn't include a wedding, meeting that perfect person or a birth of child but instead a fun exciting day I have been looking forward to for about a year now.

Let me take you back two weeks ago.  My family(mom, dad, sister and I) went on a Disney cruise to the Bahamas.  It was a grand vacation.  Since my Disney cruise had me taking Mon - Thurs off of work I decided to add Friday as a vacation day also, you know to catch up on laundry and house stuff.  Plus you always need a vacation from your vacation.   And so glad I did cause guess what Friday March 11, 2011 was? That's right "iPAD 2 Friday"!

For those of you who are new to my blog, I am the biggest APPLE fan. At work, I am referred to the "Apple Queen". Now I work in IT so i take that as a great compliment.  As a technical person I have to keep up with new technology to be competitive in my job.  I use this as excuses to purchase the latest and greatest electronics.

I did not purchase the first iPad cause apple was very disappointing in not including basic things like a camera, multitasking, and an option to extend hardrive space. I was waiting for the second edition to come out. I will admit apple got 2 out of the 3 fixed for me. The fact that apple doesn't allow you to connect an external hardrive was smart on their part but kinds sucks for a user like myself who's music/movie/photo library extends across 3 500G hardrives.   Apple just figured I would buy their biggest one available, the 64 G but funds are tight at the moment and this was not practical.

So one might ask, "If funds are tight, why would you spend $600 on an ipad when you have a perfectly working macbook at home?"  Well here you go....

For me to make big expensive purchases like this, I normally put a little bit of my paycheck aside each week.  Currently I am doing this to have a down payment for a house.   So the money had to come from somewhere else.  Last year, feather headbands and hair accessories became really popular but where very expensive in stores.  I refused to pay $40/$50 for something i might wear once or twice.  The craftiness in me decided i could just make myself one.  So after a trip to hobby lobby for feathers, i came home with a bag full and ended up making 5 separate pieces.  I started wearing them to work, when i was out and about shopping and at the dance studio.  I received so many compliments.  Finally one of the girls at the studio asked if i would make her one and what the costs would be.  That got me thinking I could make a couple more with the leftover supplies i had, sell them in the studio (there is a small boutique) and make back the money i spent on supplies.  I made 5 more and within the hour i was at the studio they were all sold.  So to make this long story short, my aunt was able to get me bulk supplies at wholesale pricing and around 150 feather accessories later I was able to come up with enough money to purchase an ipad.  They are still flying like hotcakes at the studio and i also have them in a local boutique to get more traffic outside of the dance world.

So Friday rolled around and it was time to make my purchase. I had every intention of getting up at 3:00 am to order the ipad 2 online but managed to subconsciously turn my alarm off and roll back to sleep.(remember i had just gotten back from a 5 day cruise, i was exhausted)  EEK! when i woke the next morning I realized I missed it and got on apple's website to order the and processing time was 3-4 wks. I was not waiting that long. Knowing that the ipad went on sale in stores at 5 PM, I debated as to what time to go stand in line. I decided on after lunch and showed up at my local apple store at 2 pm. I was # 57 in line! not too bad. I chatted with fellow apple freaks for the remainder of the wait.

Funny side note store:

As we were sitting/standing in the long line, everyone who walked by wanted to know what the line was for and would laugh when we told them it was for the ipad 2.  Its OK only true apple obsessed fans stand in line .  A group of young girls, maybe 12-14 yrs old asked the same question.  The guy behind me jokingly told them we were in line for Justin Beiber tickets.  HAHA!  The girls started to freak and wanted to know if they had sold out yet.

Back to the original story....

 4:45 rolled around and apple sent out an employee and two armed guards with a box of tickets for each type of ipad they had in stock. 5 minutes later they had gotten to me and I was able to get the exact one i wanted. Doors opened to the store at 5:00 on the dot and by 5:15 I was in my car on my way home to play with my new toy.

I am now the proud owner of a 32G WiFi White ipad 2 and I LOVE IT!

This may not seem like an amazing day to most people but hey it was one amazing day out of my life.

Below is a layout i did a while back after i had gotten the iphone 4.

Blogging For Scrapbookers

Last year at some point I came across Shimelle's "Blogging for Scrapbookers" class.  Although the live version of the class had already ended I was able to jump right into the material.  I will admit that life got a little busy and I did not manage to get through very many of the prompts.  Well Shimelle is offering a second live run of the class right now.  You can get to the info here: http://www.shimelle.com/classes/953/online-scrapbooking-classes-blogging-for-scrapbookers-1-2/  She will also be offfering a followup more advanced blogging class after the end of the first.

So here we got with prompt one.....

First off I would like to start with a big hello to my fellow classmates!  Glad you decided to visit my blog.

My Intentions for the class:

- get into the habit of blogging more often, not necassirly once a day but a couple of times a week seems like a good start.
- use my blog to document everyday happenings so they can later be made into a layout
- find some more scrappy blogging friends to share inspiration with
- actually fully complete an online scrap course.  I tend to slack off in the end!  I am the queen of unfinished projects!

Here is my scraproom right after the complete re-org/makeover a couple of months back.  I will admit it no longer looks like this as everything is in boxes for the move to the new house next month.  For this reason there will not be much scrapping going on till the move is complete and I decided on how i would like to arrange the new room (it is quite smaller than the last).