Our Brother Ptouch label maker winner is Elizabeth.

Thanks for the over 400 comments!  It was so fun reading through them!

On Saturday a friend came over and helped me with my craft room.  She was amazing.  It became quite apparent that I could have never done this without her.  I urge you all to get past the embarrassment and ask for help. I used to think I was just lazy, and while there is some truth to that, I quickly realized I am lacking some organizational skills.  It might seem like an easy task to group “like” things together, or group things where they are used.  For me when I see an item it has many uses  and many possibilities so it truly helped to have someone walk me through the process!

It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better!

First, my sweet friend made me take everything out of the room. OH MY!

Thank goodness she was here.  After about 30 minutes of looking at this stuff I was totally overwhelmed and ready to stop. My son said, “Mom you would have stopped and all that mess would have stayed there for 8 weeks!”—–out of the mouths of babes.

My friend continued to give me words of encouragement the ENTIRE LONG day.  She might have been dying on the inside but never let me see even one single “eye roll” over the amount of ribbon and hole punches —-that is a true friend! I am thankful beyond words for her help!

I am not quite ready to post an update photo.  I will save that for the first of February like I promised.

One thing that helped was to have plenty of small containers to sort items. It was also important to me that it looked pretty. So to help one of you get organized in a fun and pretty way, the Container Store, is generously giving one lucky reader a $25.00 gift card.  Leave a little comment here before Sunday at midnight for a chance to win!

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  1. Oh, I’d LOVE a Containter Store Gift Card! That store is absolutely addicting! Be sure to check out my blog when you get a chance…I’m almost done with my craft room/guest bedroom organizational makeover. I’m SO happy with the way it’s turning out and I’m posting pics all week of my organizational ideas for craft rooms. 🙂 Love your blog!

  2. I think I am organizationally challeged also! I’d love my craft room to be more organized so I can find what I’m looking for! Maybe some containers would help.

  5. I recognize some of the containers in your picture! LOL!!! I’m looking foward to seeing the end results:D

  10. I so need this, I am as unorganized as you can get. I love containers, can never have enough!!!

  12. Are you an enabler if you give a Container Store gift card to a container junkie? Who cares? Count me in, please.
    I’m trying to make my craft room more functional in it’s layout. Everything is organized and labeled, but now I think a different arrangement of the furniture might work better.

  13. You’re very lucky to have had your friend come over and help you out! Good work on getting it all done!

  14. I would love to have some small containers. I have a hard time letting go of things because someday I’ll need them right?!? So if I’m going to hang on to them they should at least be organized in a cute and functional way. 🙂

  15. Love, love, LOVE The Container Store. Was just there last Friday dreaming about all the fabulous containers I wanted to buy. {sigh} It’s an organizer’s dream store.

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