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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. You have no idea how disorganized I am. I store important papers in rubbermaid containers and old boxes. I’ve lost my social security card 3 times (did you know you can only request 10 replacement cards in your lifetime?). I could use a Container Store gc for sure.

  3. I’d love to win a gc… and so would my office/play room/den/place where everything goes to stay. 🙂

  5. Brace yourself- I had to look up The Container Store. It looks totally awsome, wish I had one near me to see it live but hey I can order online!!!!

  6. BOY WOULD THIS GIFT HELP ME WITH MY NEW YEARS RESOLUTION, TO BECOME ORGANIZED. I NEED HELP ANYWAY I CAN GET IT. THANKS FOR HAVING SUCH A GENEROUS GIVEAWAY.

  7. Your organizational tips are wonderful and have inspired me to start on my spare bedroom. Maybe I’ll find extra space to create a craft area for me!!

  8. Wow! You are like me – never throw anything out lest you need it in the future, especially for crafting! good luck with the redo, and good luck keeping it organized!

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  11. I MUST organize my many work stations as well. I agree, containers are essential……and a storage stystem to organize the containers!! I could spend a weekend dreaming about work projects inside the walls of the Container Store.

  12. I’ve been staring at my craft CORNER for over a week now trying to figure out how to get it all organized and contained to what little space I have! It may take an army to get me organized!! 🙂

  13. The container store sounds like the kind of place were I could do some serious damage to my bank balance.

  14. One of my absolute favorite stores – I can wonder around a container store and a fabric store and it’s better than therapy.

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