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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. I so need to do a complete purge and clean-out of my office/craft room…my problem is finding the time! I can’t wait to see the “after” photos.

  2. Just like you, I would have emptied my craft room and just let it sit there for many, many weeks 🙂

    I sure could use some containers to help me sort things out.

  4. I love The Container Store and hate that we moved and no longer live near one. Thank heaven for the internet 🙂

  5. I am excited to see the finished space. I hope to get some great ideas for good looking storage for my mess. I really need to have a place of everything and everything in it’s place. I spend so much time looking for stuff that I have little free time to work on projects. HELP!!

  7. I have so much craft and sewing supplies all over I can never find what I am looking for so I keep buying new ones. I NEED to get organzied! A broken water heater has made me see light. Any ideas for the best way to organize sewing items vs the craft items?

  8. I could use help organizing! Please enter me for the $25 GC drawing and thanks for inspiring me to get better organized 🙂

  9. I love to organize! I’m not saying I DO it, just that I love to do it. And I’m all about the presentation, making it looking pretty while it’s organized. I’ve never been to or bought from the Container Store so this would be a cool little prize for me!

    Corinna
    http://www.myscrapbooklife.com

  11. Congrats on your organization journey. I need to do some of the same so a Container Store gift card would be super handy.

  12. I cant wait to see the finished product and then maybe head over to the Container Store to do the same in my room!

  13. I would love to have a gift certificate to The Container Store….my husband thinks I’m nuts with all the storage containers we have, but they keep me organized (well, kinda) and it makes it easier to rearrange things, as I do often!

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