Wednesday, July 29, 2009

De-Glittering a tub Full of goodies!

Look at all those delightful jars of embossing powders, glitters, flock, googly eyes and critter tails! (Click the Pic and investigate some more, if you'd like. :>)

Now, let me tell you what is not so delightful..... This tub is from back in the day, when I started stamping in the mid-'90's. At one point, there was a film canister of orange glitter (I think it had some gold mixed in with it....hence the clear film canister it was in). Let me stress that a film canister is NOT a good little container to hold glitter!!! Yup, Yup! At some point....probably over ten years ago, when all of my stamping supplies were boxed up and just being moved around with me (yes, there was a point that I did not stamp for many years....thankfully, the packrat in me kept it all and now I'm loving my old supplies!)....oooo, I digress.......at some point, that canister EXPLODED inside the tub and I have had some concoction of orange glitter on Everything it touches for the last decade.

There are probably almost a dozen little jars missing from this tub, as every once in awhile, I brave opening it (even the outside of the tub still has glitter on it...after many attempts to remove it) and pull out a single jar to clean up and use. Well, no more. I am not letting that glitter get the best of me anymore! I'm done with it holding all of those other goodies hostage and I'm going in. Thankfully, I have Backup this time. Are you curious where my Backup came from? Hmmmmm??

My glitter defying Backup comes inside a happy bright green box and waits quietly in my hall closet until it is needed to come to my rescue. Backup rescues me often, in fact, not just from stubborn glitter, but from dust too! Have you guessed yet? Dust and glitter cling to Backup and keep me from sneezing and going a wee bit batty over orange glitter. Do you know now? Does Backup come to your rescue?? Yup, yup, Backup, aka Swiffer cloths clean glitter, even glitter that has stubbornly claimed a home and just won't move out! Its a wee bit time consumming, but I am determined to move that glitter out so that I can play with my goodies again (without turning the whole family a nice shade of sparkly orange) and with Backup, I think I will finally win!! :>:>

20 comments:

  1. Ohhhhhh, sweet BABY! I feeeeel your pain! BEEN there, done THAT! My weapon of choice was a baby wipe... but YOURS makes much more sense and I will definitely HAVE to remember that great tip because.... GLITTER happens! KWIM! You're hilarious, Karen, my Karen!

    ReplyDelete
  2. Don't you just love Swiffer?! Glad you kept your supplies and that you are using them again and that you or your family won't be sparkly orange. Now if it was pink glitter, I might have a different opinion!!!

    xoxo
    Karyn

    ReplyDelete
  3. Hi, Karen! Wrestle that orange sparkly stuff to the ground and show it who is boss! Good luck! :-)

    ReplyDelete
  4. my first thought was "ooooooh nooooo" but your story is actually a triumph over a long standing battle with the orangey gold. Good for yoU! Although, I'm not opposed to your family being a shade of sparkley either! ;) loves your story friend!

    ReplyDelete
  5. That is a lot of glitter! I don't use it much specifically because of the "mess" it creates. When I do use that or embossing powder, I use baby wipes to clean up my mess. Seems to get it all up and cleans up my desk at the same time.

    ReplyDelete
  6. oh ya....my house has glitter in the funniest places..well not funny if you are trying to clean it. Hey..do you think I can use a swiffer on my cats?? they always seem to have glitter on them. lol
    boy..I sure do feel your pain. Good luck with the clean up
    :)

    ReplyDelete
  7. oh my gosh, you are too funny! my husband would love this comment...he calls glitter the "herpes" of the craft world as it gets on everything!! (i know, it's not really a scrap-friendly phrase, lol, but he's not a glitter fan - obviously). glad to know that those swiffers are a good clinger to glitter! thanks for leaving those super sweet comments on my blog. i'll frequent your site soon!

    ReplyDelete
  8. Hee Hee Hee...that neon yellow cannister on top with the rainbow sticker? HAS to be from the 80's! Hold on to it though...I am predicting that to come back in the next 5 years. It has to! I will be first in line to get some neon pink nail polish, too! The 80's were fun!!

    ReplyDelete
  9. LOL....Love that Karen...so cute and oh my so so true about glitter!!!! I wanted to stop by and say THANK YOU for your very very sweet comment on my blog.......You've made me smile this morning!!!! I hope you are having a very blessed day!!!

    ReplyDelete
  10. I just KNEW you would say Swiffer when you mentioned the green box! Aren't they wonderful? Hope you've cleaned all your supplies because I am so looking forward to what you will create with them.

    Thanks for the wonderful belly laugh you gave me over writing comments & emails in your head. The laugh comes as I am thrilled to find out I'm not the only one suffering from this disorder. And don't worry. If the men in the white coats haven't gotten ME by now...I think you are safe! xoxo L

    ReplyDelete
  11. Thanks for stopping by to visit one of my blogs. I always like to meet new people....your blog is full of goodies! And thanks for the tip about swiffer cloths and glitter!

    ReplyDelete
  12. HECK YEA!!! LOVE those swiffers!
    cant wait to see what you do with all that glitter.

    ReplyDelete
  13. This looks yummy!! I am a pack rat too! Especially with crafty stuff! I have had the hardest time opening your blog in my windows explorer. I don't know what the deal is. I am using Mozilla right now and having no trouble. I need a new laptop!

    ReplyDelete
  14. Well... what do you know... two times in one night I am able to get to you! :) This time on internet explorer. I just had to reboot.. my laptop starts going crazy opening new windows faster than I can close them so I just have to hit the power button.

    My husband is suppose to rebuild my machine but I just haven't let him yet. Now I am leaning more towards just getting another one. I don't know where the money will come from but hey... I would just spend it on more crafty goodies anyway!

    I do appreciate the blog award! Very sweet and it means a lot to me when people enjoy visiting me! I enjoy your blog as well (when I can get to it... ha)! Thanks again Karen!

    ReplyDelete
  15. Good luck clearing out the mess! Glitter really has a life of its own...there's really no stopping it. Maybe we could make a horror movie about it! LOL!

    ReplyDelete
  16. Ha ha that is so funny. I always hate when glitter takes over your house. I always think it is funny when I find it on my husband. Ha.

    ReplyDelete
  17. Great idea! I use so much glitter that there's glitter all over me, DH, our three boys and the entire house, so this wouldn't be that unusual for us!!

    ReplyDelete
  18. omgosh, what a mess! Great tip on the swifter sheet! I learned the hard way the other day if there is an air conditioning unit directly in front of your desk, turn it off before using embossing powder. LOL!!!

    ReplyDelete
  19. YIKES!! I'm not a glitter fan and would have had a heart attack!

    ReplyDelete
  20. It is simply magnificent idea

    ReplyDelete

Thank You for visiting! I appreciate and am grateful for all of You who craft some of Your time to leave me comments!

Blog Widget by LinkWithin