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. I would love to get some things from the container store, but don’t have the money! I can’t wait to see your updated photos. Good Luck, and God Bless!!

  6. Thank you for sharing your before pics of your craft room.
    You made me feel 100% better for having a VERY messy space.
    Of course, mine is 10 times worse than yours, and I could not even imagine letting anyone see it.
    I just close the door…
    I love your son’s comment about walking away…kids!
    Good luck with it – you inspire me too!

  7. I could so use some more handy dandy containers to contain the overwhelming mess that is my studio.

  8. My MIL raves about the Container Store but I have yet to go there. I totally need to as my desk is a total disaster!

  9. Choose me, choose me!!! :o) I LOVE the container store. I’m envious…..will your friend adopt me as a friend??

  10. I would love to win this. Good job on your organizing of your craft room. I wish I had a friend like that. Well I did but she left em to move across the country. Anyway, I could sure use this.

  11. I would love to get organized! My art room has to become a nursery and I just don’t know how to do it!

  14. I am looking for some closet organization for the baby room and this would sure help.
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  15. I would love to win this giveaway! i love the Container Store and have so many things that need to be organized.

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