The Craft Room Fairy Finally Came.... and her name is Nana!

I decided it was time to clean my craft room after I had to start walking over things to get to one of the sewing machines. The pathways dwindled to one narrow one, full of obstacles and I felt if i didn't do something quickly, i would lose more than my creativity, I would also my sanity. I happened upon a craft Room Disasters thread on a craft board and I was surprised to find that everyone posting was as disorganized and messy as I was. They had the nerve to post before and after pictures and I thought, wow, they have guts sharing their chaos! Then I made the decision to share my own because now that I've spent the day cleaning, sorting, and purging, purging, and more purging, I'm quite proud of my accomplishment. I had spent Sunday sorting, boxing, labeling, and shelving fabric, deciding that my craft room wasn't the place to store it. A set of shelves were put up in my office and the banker boxes house each type of fabric marvelously!
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Fabric
One set of shelves house my fabric, the other my inventory.

Even my rubberstamps are organized in pizza boxes, perfect size! The closet holds mostly misc stuff that I don't use everyday.




I'm ashamed that I let my beautiful room get so out of hand since lack of storage certainly isn't an excuse I could use. 21 days make a habit and i sure do need to practice putting things away when I am done with them. i removed the table since it served more as a dumping ground than a work surface, i have a In Progress box that can temporarily store projects in the works. i also have a bankers box for patterns and instructions waiting to be filed in notebooks. i may take awhile to file them, but at least they are consolidated and not scattered through the house. All in all, I am incredibly proud of my efforts today and look forward to using the room tomorrow to create!