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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  3. My friend took me to a CS in San Diego. I didn’t know such wonderfulness existed!! I was totally overwhelmed and coveted everything in the store. Now if only my checkbook showed a couple extra zeros at the end……

  4. I would LOVE some organizing containers. We are in the process of re-doing our office. Any little bit would help!

  6. my husband would love you if i won 🙂 since we have a barely 1000sq.ft. apartment, my craft supplies tend to get spread all over the house whenever i’m working on a project. some small boxes could help tremendously as they could travel with me instead of having to bring out all different pieces 🙂

  9. I would LOVE a trip to the container store……..my lil craft corner is so out of whack, it’s truly unusuable. I need both help and inspiration!

  10. Way to hang in there!! I need a little help too and would love a $25 gift certificate to my fave store!

  11. Since you have started doing organizing, I decided I needed to stop putting it off and get too it. My husband is thrilled and scared at the same time.

  12. Oh seeing this gives me hope!!!! I have been trying to organize my crafting space for 2 years!!! Any and all help would be greatly appreciated and if that help was pretty containers-all the better! Congrats on your job well done!

  13. A gift certificate to the Container Store would be perfect. We are in spring cleaning mode around here!

  15. Wow, this would be a great way to get started organizing in the right way with a place for everything or a container for everything! Thank you for the opportunity to enter for the gift card!!!

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