Halloween at college was always something interesting. Freshman year, we spent a lot of time at Target (because it was closer by bus) and also did a little thing called Haunted Hall.

Haunted Hall was part performance, part building, part trying to keep a bunch of people organized, but mostly scaring the pants off of people. We used an empty residence hall and decorated it and figured out routes and all that fun stuff and people would come and donate cans of food or money to enter.

Unfortunately, my senior year they stopped doing Haunted Hall and I was sad, but I still have tons of great memories.

Like I said yesterday, I have a whole bunch more photos to scrapbook, so here is my first page of my college scrapbook. I LOVE how it turned out. LOVE.I did have to splice together two pieces of yellow for the background of the photos, and I may or may not have cropped someone out of the photo on the left (Ok, I did), but I think this is a great, fun, happy beginning to my awesome college scrapbook.

I really do have more projects than just scrapbooking, but for now I’m having TONS of fun. I’m sure I’ll get bored of it soon and post some other projects, but for now, I have some awesome scrapbooky goodness to share.

Getting all of my scrapbook paper and embellishments organized has really inspired me to scrapbook everything I have. And I have a TON of photos that need to be scrapped. That might be all of what you see for the next few days, but worry not, I have more projects that need to be done!

I may have gone a little crazy with the rhinestones on these pages, but I like them and had space to fill. You can never have too much sparkle!

Now that I’m done with my favorite photos from my best friend’s wedding, I’m going to move onto some college stuff that I already have printed. I have to print photos from my other friend’s wedding and my brother’s wedding, but I have tons from Vegas and college that I’m going to move onto next.

My best friend got married on October 1st. Of 2011. And I got the photos from her wedding about a month later. And then I immediately scrapbooked those photos. Except that’s not what happened at all. They sat in their envelopes until yesterday (some of them ended up in frames on my unfinished frame wall) when I finished the first two pages of the book.

I plan to make the invitation the first page of the book, but the first photo is of myself and Chris dancing for the FIRST TIME EVER! Though we look like we’re at a high school dance, he improved at our second dance at another friend’s wedding about a year later.

The facing photo is my favorite one of my friend and her husband from their wedding. When I saw it I thought it was so sweet and so cute I may have teared up a little.

I made the wedding date label in Photoshop, and I might offer it in a few colors as a printable later today (it counts as a craft, right?) The rose paper I bought as a pack of 50 from Tuesday Morning for like $1 a while ago. The purple is from one of many stacks. The punch to create the border is Martha Stewart, and the sparkly letters were a TJMaxx buy (can you tell I don’t like to pay full price for my supplies?)

Not too bad for some of my first pages!

I’ve always loved Mint.com for keeping track of my money, but with my current job, I get paid on a pay card that can’t be connected to Mint. And that sucks. I really like that I can see what’s coming in and what’s going out and what categories I’m spending in and where, so when I found this 13 section file at Staples, I figured it would be a great place to keep track of receipts (and keep them out of my wallet).

I labeled each of the sections with a month and keep spare notecards in the back section.

I’m not going to show off my financials, but every time I get a receipt, it goes into its month’s section and I write down the date, where I spent it, what the category was (Shopping, food, gym, loan payments, etc.) and how much I spent. Negatives are in red, paychecks are in black.

This has worked out pretty well so far. It’s a great place to keep my receipts and I’m able to keep track of everything really easily. When I get a job with direct deposit, or if I ever sign up for direct deposit through my current job, I plan to continue saving receipts in this method, just not writing anything but cash transactions down (since it will all be on Mint).

How do you keep track of where your money is going? Are all of your receipts in a shoebox?

A while ago, IHeart Organizing posted about how she made drawer organizers out of cereal boxes, and I really needed to organize my bedside table because it looked an awful lot like this:

SO BAD. So I collected some boxes and laid them out in a pattern that made sense and still left some room for big/square things.

And then I had to wait for the boxes to be emptied. But once they were, I followed IHeart Organizing’s instructions to cut them to size and cover them. But I wasn’t satisfied. I wanted a box that had a top and closed, and after a little bit of figuring, I found the best way to do it.

First, cut one of your boxes in half.

You’re going to use the top half for this part. Make sure the box you’re using looks like this:

Then flip the top half of the box over and measure the height of the drawer against it, but don’t cut it yet! You’re going to need that extra bit of the box to make the bottom.

If you don’t want Cheezit’s by now, I don’t know WHO YOU ARE. Anyway, cut the extra bits of the box down to your cut.

Now, you should have a box top that has four flaps on one side and four flaps on the other. Take a look at the bottom half of the box. You’ll notice that everything is cut at an angle. This is to make everything fit together better, and it works, so cut all four of your bottom flaps at an angle.

I decided not to line the inside of this box because it just seemed like a lot more work, so I wrapped the outside of this box with some of my $4 for two rolls contact paper that I bought on clearance at TJMaxx, then cut down to the corner of the box.Wrap the edges down and trim anywhere that there’s a corner, wrapping the cut edges around instead of cutting them off. At any corners, cut at an angle into the corner and push one side down and the other over.

Make sure you cut out the slit so you have a place to put your tab.And you’re done!

Keep sensitive items in your closable box or just anything that you don’t want readily available to anyone opening your drawer, then fill your organizers up! I sorted my things by category, then by what would fit into which drawer.

I love it! I smile whenever I open my drawer and see my beautiful little boxes and all the pink. This is almost everything that was in the drawer before, save for some hair ties and a small pile of stuff I threw away. I’m considering putting the hair ties in the drawer, though, since I have enough room for them.

What are you making for National Craft Month? Do you have a drawer that needs desperately to be organized?