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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  2. I am so jealous! My craft room is just sitting there, unusable, with my craft supplies laying everywhere and all through the house. We keep waiting to save enough money to buy furniture for the room and I need all those little containers for all my STUFF too. I feel like it’s an unachievable dream! I had to set up a mini craft space in my bedroom so I could make my Christmas gifts but it is so cluttered now, it’s just a mess. I need a TEAM to come over and help me with this mess. Congrats on your organized space!

  5. I am trying to get organized in 2009. That’s my resolution! I would love to win this GC.
    TRigell at aol dot com

  7. Oooh…an organizational giveaway. That’s one of my problems. I know I need organizational tools and containers, but I’m so overwhelmed, I have absolutely no idea WHAT I need. So, I buy a bunch of stuff and then it’s not what I need and it just adds to the clutter.

  8. Can’t wait to see the updated pic! Count me in on the give-away!! I would LOVE some fun, cute containers or plain ones…

  10. I would love to win this my daughter’s room is driving me crazy, thank-you.
    tamben7996(at)aol(dot)com

  14. I would SO love to win this! I could use containers to help organize my kids toys and things, and also in my closet – when I have something I don’t know what to do with…into my closet it goes! I need to de-clutter! 😉

  15. Inspiration! My husband insists it’s time to organize my arts and crafts. It’s nice to know it’s possible.

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