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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. Oh I need to find a brave buddy to come help me with organization and keep me from quitting. Somehow it doesn’t work with dear hubby there. He’s not quite as “encouraging” LOL

  2. I love the container store and I love organizing things. I really need to go through all my stuff and sort it out.

  6. Good friends are so much harder to find than good containers! Looking forward to the big reveal.

  9. I have actually been working on trying to clean up my craft room for the past couple of weeks! I get started, then run out of time, then put everything back because I won’t have a chance to get back to it for a few days. It seems like a never-ending process! I definitely could use as many containers as possible to help keep me motivated to finally get it finished! I want to craft and make cards….but I have no room to do it. I can’t wait to see what your finished room looks like. Maybe it will give me some great ideas.

  10. Thank you so much for this giveaway! How exciting. I absolutely love the Container Store and can think of a million things I would love to get. Thank you again!

  13. I’m such Container Store addict! I need to get some more storage boxes for my girls’ artwork.

  14. The container store is awesome! It’s the first place I would go when I came home from college. OK well that sounded pitiful!

  15. I wish I had a friend like yours. I have no organizational skills when it come to my crafting, try as I might and unfortunately have passed that on to my daughters. It seems that I am always in the middle of trying to get everything organized. Can’t wait to see your reorganized room.

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