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Oct 21 2010

Challenge: Get rid of supplies you won’t use.

Category: Challenge

 

Congratulations to Kylie, you have won a scrapbook pack from Danielle – Kaszazz Consultant valued at $30. 

Thankyou to the generous Danielle – Kaszazz Consultant, for sponsoring this weeks challenge.  Danielle is giving away a surpised filled pack of scrapbooking goodies valued at $30.  So I thought it fitting this weeks challnge be a scrapbooking related.  If you don’t scrapbook you can easily convert this to whatever your hobby maybe.

Today’s challenge is to go through some of your supplies.  Do you have alot of scrapbooking supplies that you are keeping but know that you won’t use??  I have alot, my style has changed since I started scrapbooking 5 years ago, I have quite a few old stickers, now I much prefer rub-ons.  I have alot of baby themed items which I don’t need to keep as I have finished my kids baby albums and my papers…that just horrifying, I have alot of awful papers that I brought which makes me wonder what I was thinking.  I’m sure many of you are the same.

THE CHALLENGE:

Challenge No. 1

Have a look through all your supplies.  What items can you find that you KNOW you won’t use.  Gather all these items together and consider the following:

  • Make an album using all these items
  • Give to your children to use for arts and crafts
  • Donate to the local school or kindy for their craft sessions
  • Give to a teacher as I am sure they will use them in their projects
  • Donate to playgroups in your local area
  • Sell on ebay
  • Sell in a garage sale
  • Sell in a car boot sale
  • Swap with a friend

I have this basket under my craft table, which I add things to regularly for my kids.  They know they can have anything inside the basket.  I keep the paper in an old 12″ folder. 

or Challenge No. 2

For those that don’t have any items to get rid of I have another challenge for you.  Instead, challenge yourself to organise your embellishments and alphabet’s as described in yesterday’s post, more details HERE. You will find it so much easier when you are scrapbooking  locating exactly what you are after.

THE GIVEAWAY

A surprise pack valued at $30.00 from Danielle Shield – Your Kaszazz Consultant.

Kaszazz is 100% Australian Owned and offer you an opportunity to express your creativity with their products and enjoy creative fun with friends at one of their 3 customer events.

Danielle is an Independent Kaszazz Consultant and would love to help you unleash your creativity. Check out her website at www.kaszazz.com and head over to her facebook page Danielle Shield – Your Kaszazz Consultant for photos of workshops and their products.

They have monthly Host and Customer promotions including FREEbies…..be a party queen and party with your friends and Kaszazz.

For more information you can contact Danielle at mattndan@optusnet.com.au or call her on 0419 475 503.

HOW TO ENTER:

  1. Complete one of the challenges, choice is yours. 
  2. Become a fan of the  The Organised Housewife Facebook page.
  3. Become a fan of  Danielle Shield – Your Kaszazz Consultant on Facebook, don’t forget to tell her The Organised Housewife sent you!
  4. If you don’t have Facebook, your task is to email me organisedhousewife@live.com.au with ‘I have completed The Organised Housewife challenge’ in the subject.
  5. Finally, leave one comment only below listing:
  • what supplies you have removed from your scrapbook stash
  • and confirm that you are a fan of each page. 

Remember:

  • if you are commenting as anonymous please leave your contact info in case you win.
  • Please remember ONE post only. Duplicate posts will be removed.
  • I won’t reply until after the challenge so I don’t muck up the random.org winner pick.

Winner will be chosen on Wednesday, 27th October 2010 at 12:00pm (QLD time). Any entries received after this time will not be considered. Open to Australian residents only. Winner will be chosen using random.org. Winner will be notified via email.  I will also announce winner at the top of this post.

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  • corrine

    Hey there thanks for the challange sure needed to clean out my scrap booking tools now there is plenty of room for pretty new stickers cut outs and anything else that i see and like.I am a fan of both pages and have donated to my nephew and nieces some stickers and rub ons and some glitter as well as lots of beads and buttons that were floating around

    • Alicia

      Oh WOW I love this challenge. I have come up with a super duper way of holding all my stickers and rubons. Belive me I have a million (seriouly) Anyway I have hung them all on a shopfitting display rack (kind of like a clip it up) that I got from a scrapbook shop that was closing down. I am super proud of myself for finally getting my stash in order. Thank you for the kick in the butt. I really needed it…..Now I just need to get my Christmas card list, birthday book, address books and baby books in order….next challenge PLEASE LOL
      Thanks again.

  • Emma davies

    took me four days to round up the amount of craft supplies i have strewn through the house , buttons glues , scrap paper , scissors , foam cut outs , hole punchers .. now they are in one easy accessable crate under the computer desk for the kids .. they have done more craft in the last four days than in the last year as its now in one simple to reach area for everyone in the whole family to enjoy!!! its amazing how one little job makes a big difference to the home!

  • sarah

    I don't know if I can still be counted if I already did this a couple of months ago, but thought I'd tell everyone about it anyway. I work for a community organisation that has multiple branches around Australia. One of our branches is a refuge (short-term emergency accommodation) for women and children who have been victims of domestic violence. A call was put out to staff to donate toys for the kids that stay there, as often women escape violent r/ships with little more than the clothes on their back. As I do not yet have kids I had no toys to donate. But I knew I had a mountain of scrapbooking stuff that I was never going to use, including a lot of patterned papers, stickers, and embellishments. So I went through it all – and I was quite ruthless about it! – and pulled out all the unwanted bits. I piled it into a box (yes, I managed to fill it!) and took it to work, with the idea that the kids could use it for crafts in the refuge. It made me feel really good to think it would go to use in a place like that.

    P.S. Yes I am a fan of both this blog and the Kaszazz pages on Facebook!

  • Leanne

    Hi There,
    I have gone through and found some unsightly papers, stickers, ribbon (so yuck, what was i thinking), stencils + some crafty stuff like paddle pop sticks, pompoms & pipe cleaner. Thanks to your weekly challange, i have put all these items into a plastic tub have given it to my Sister, so her kids have some crafty stuff to do when the weather is horrible.
    Thanks for the great idea.
    Leanne
    P.S. I'm a fan of the organised house wife & Danielle Kaszazz page, love your work girls!! :-)

  • Naomi

    I did this out of necessity as we are currently in the middle of an interstate move and we had a limit to what we could shift. I had to leave quite a bit of my art supplies with my mother-in-law… Paints and things … Because I've had two kids since ive done any serious painting or scrapbooking for that matter. Thanks for the challenge, just came across the blog recently and love it.

  • Elisha Squire

    I took my sweet time doing this as it was a lot harder to do with my twins running around! However, I finally completed it! I found my style too has changed and some of the papers/stickers i had were just wrong! I have put all the unwanted things into the kids art tub – My daughter can't wait to get her hands on things… I even found sorting my rub ons was easier this time, i put them all in a display folder for easy access! It was a time consuming challenge for me! Yes im a fan of both facebook pages – Thank you again for a great challenge!

  • Kylie

    Instead of getting rid of supplies – I am so far behind on my scrapping, that I'm still not sure what I will or won't use, and most of it is theme packs that will get used up for the planned pages – I organised the embellishments/stickers etc I do have unpacked out of boxes, so my cupboard is better organised and I have room to unpack the rest :)
    I emptied a tote bag, which can now be put away with my overnight bags (put to better use, since it's a nice attractive bag) and that's one less thing taking up space in my bedroom :)
    I am a fan of both pages on facebook.
    I do need a better system for my 12 x 12 pages if you can help with that, lol.