Ideas for Organizing your Craft Room & Home Office

Hey all!  Yesterday I gave you the list on getting your craft room/ home office organized.   This is part of the Delightful Order Monthly Organizing Challenge. Read all about the Challenge HERE.

Here's some organizing inspiration for you.  

Simply click the links below to be directed to each blog post:

May you be a little inspired!

Until next time,
DaNita 
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View more of my Most Recent Projects HERE.
 

March Challenge: Organizing the Craft Room & Home Office

Hello! How did you do with the February Organizing Challenge? Hopefully you got some control over your kitchens.

We're into March now and this month we're going to clean and organize our Craft Room/Home Offices ~ If you don't have an office or a craft room, you can clean and organize the area that you keep your paperwork & bills, craft supplies, etc.

This month, I'm challenging you to do the following:

Organize all your paperwork

Organize your manuals

Organize your mail & bills

Organize your tax information

Organize your coupons & receipts

Organize your paint samples

Create a filing system that works for you

Organize your filing cabinets

Organize your children's paperwork

Organize your books & magazines

Organize your office and craft supplies

Organize your photo's (digital and physical)

Clean and organize the top of your desk

Organize desk drawers

Categorize everything that you can. Use boxes, bins, baskets, binders, tray dividers, file boxes, photo boxes and more.

Tomorrow I will share a TON of inspiration with you that will cover most all of the items that we will be organizing during the month of March.

Today, I'm sharing a bit of my craft room/home office with you:

I've made some major changes to this room since I shared it on the blog back in 2011.  If you missed that post, you can find it here.

Here's a before and after side by side photo so that you can see the changes:

I painted the cabinets and the desk with Annie Sloan "old white" chalk paint. I love how bright the room feels now.

A few of the drawers in my room.

The cabinets on the other side of my room hold memories and photo albums:

The gray file boxes are for my boys memories, school papers, etc:

I have this system set up like I shared a while back.  You'll see more of this tomorrow.

The black boxes hold larger items that won't fit into the file boxes.

I've started creating my boys' keepsake photo memory books... each of them have one of the green albums.  I'm creating these books for them.. and my plan is that once they graduate high school, their album will be finished and it will be part of their graduation gift.

Here's a peek into how I am creating their memory keepsake books:

I'm doing the albums "Project Life" style.  I'm creating my project life pages in digital format.  If you haven't heard of Project Life, read all about it here. I'm so in love with this system. It's so super easy and so very cute!

Here are a couple of pages from one of my boys albums:

Photo Credit (Anneli Kirstine Photography)

I absolutely LOVE designing these pages!  I design my pages in photoshop myself and print them onto 12x12 photo paper. I use some journal cards that I have purchased and I also design my own too.  I actually sell some of my designs in my ETSY shop here.

I also have photo albums for family and friends, myself and my husband and our yearly family photos. Most of my albums in this section are a "work in progress."    I do have some of our yearly albums complete.  Again, if you come back tomorrow you will see more to how I organize my photos.

Here's you free printable checklist:

(simply click the photo above and  print)

Okay so now that you have the list of things to do this month, let's get started!  Remember to come back tomorrow for even more inspiration! 

* UPDATE - Here's the link to the Organizing Ideas for your Craft Room & Home Office

This post is part of the Monthly Organization Challenge. You can join the challenge at any time. Go HERE to see all the posts and bring Delightful Order to your home and life this year.

To stay connected, you can sign up to receive emails when new posts are published or follow along on Instagram or Facebook. (Please note that Facebook has made some changes, and you may or may not see all the posts there.)  I also have a Monthly Organization Challenge board set up on Pinterest, so you can follow along there as well. 

May you be a little inspired!

Until next time,
DaNita 
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View more of my Most Recent Projects HERE.
 

Laundry Room, Craft Room, Office All in One Makeover

Hello! Hope you are well.

My sister and her family moved into a (new to them) house back in September and she had asked me to fly out and help her get organized, so last month I was finally able to do that.

We accomplished a ton in the short time I was there...

The first thing I want to show you is her laundry room.  It had to serve as a laundry room, but it also had to serve as a craft area and an office, all in that one space.

So (over the phone and via emails, etc.) my sister and I came up with a plan and our brother built some shelving and a new desk too.  My sister went and did her shopping (with a list that I helped her come up with) before I arrived.  As soon as I got there, we went to work organizing!

This is how her laundry room/craft room/office looks now:

and here are  the before and after side by side photo's of this side of the laundry room.

NOW moving onto the craft/ office section.

We created a craft/office closet all together.

 Here is the side by side before and after shot of the closet:

I LOVE transformations like this and I LOVE the challenge of creating them too.

Come back soon! I'll show you more of the organization we did in just a few short days.

May you be a little inspired!

Until next time,
DaNita 
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View more of my Most Recent Projects HERE.
 

Organizing My Mom’s Craft Storage Closet

Hey there!  Hope your weekend was fab!

I‘m going to finish showing you my mom’s organization in the next couple weeks.  Back in January, I spent some time at her place getting a few of her spaces in order.

I’ve already showed you her knitting and crocheting storage space and her sewing room organization.

Today, I’m sharing her hall closet. It’s mostly filled with crafts, but there are also gifts, photo’s, tools and whatever else needed a home in her place.

The after is a MUCH better space than the before.

This is what the closet looked like when I went to put something in it.  I could hardly get the door to open.

When I went to my mom’s house the plan was to organize her knitting and sewing spaces.  However, often times when you start to organize one space, it leads to another and another. So I ended up organizing many different spaces in her home.

Check out all the storage bins in this closet.

Most of the bins are either Sterilite bins from Wal-Mart or Dollar Tree bins.

My mom stocks up on gifts. We made a special place for boy gifts…

and a bin for girl gifts.

I used Avery address labels to label these bins.  I do like the labels that I sell in my shop better, because they are bigger and brighter and easier to see at a glance.

a place for everything…

… and everything in it’s place.

:)

These bins are photo bins that my mom needs to go through.  She started to create memory books for each of her kids, the large bin on the bottom holds all of those books.

more craft items and an greeting card box, organized similar to mine

and a special place for games.

Now.. check out the before and after together:

Much better, don’t you think?

May you be a little inspired!
Until next time,
DaNita

Organized Fabric & Sewing Supply Cabinets

Happy Monday Everyone!  Hope you had a great weekend!

Today I’m showing you how I’ve organized my sewing supply cabinets.  Not that I do a lot of sewing (I’m certainly not that great at it.) BUT I do like a “custom” look in my home and to get that, without paying “custom” prices, I have whipped up a few curtains and pillows in my time.

I store my sewing machine and supplies in my laundry room.  Later this week, I’ll show you the entire laundry room reveal.  I designed the room to have lots of cabinet space.  These upper cabinets are where I keep my sewing supplies.

My awesome sewing machine was a garage sale bargain that I got quite a few years ago.  (Thanks Darla W.)  If you remember, I got this one from you and it’s been so great to have.

To organize these cabinets, I found some more dollar tree baskets.  You already know that I’ve used Dollar Tree baskets and bins throughout my home.

I took all of my material pieces and went through and organized them by color, throwing out really small pieces and ones that I don’t think I’ll use.

I can assure you, I don’t have near as much material as my mom.  If you missed the post on organizing her sewing room, you can view it HERE.

Here’s the cabinet directly above the sewing machine.

I attached command hooks to the inside of the cabinet doors.

One side holds my ruler and cutting mat…

… and the other side holds my large scissors.

My supplies basket holds my little scissors, pin cushion, seam ripper and other supplies.

These little plastic holders are also from the Dollar Tree.  I think there might have been six to a pack.

Those rectangular labels can be found in my Etsy Shop HERE and these ones are edit-able. Simply type in the words that you want on the labels and print.  (The font style and sizing can not be changed.)  You can use these labels wherever you want.  Labeling whatever you wish.

The top drawer holds cutters, iron-on patches and my sewing machine tools.

The middle drawer holds buttons and zippers,

The button makers are organized inside little containers.

and the bottom drawer holds my thread.

threaded bobbins are stored in another one of those small plastic containers, inside the thread drawer.

and the rest of the cabinets hold all those dollar tree baskets I showed you earlier.

These round circle labels can be found in my Shop HERE.  Again, these ones are Editable. (not to be confused with edible ;) 

and more…

The other cabinet looks like so:

With more of those baskets and material organized by color.

It’s so great to have these cabinets in order.  Makes finding exactly what I’m looking for, simple as pie.

So if I wanted to, I could spend more time sewing and not so much time looking for items that I need.

Again, you can find the rectangular labels that I used in these cabinets here,

and the circle labels here

That’s all folks!  My sewing cabinets have been brought to Delightful Order… and I like it. :)

How about you?  What space(s) would you like to bring to Delightful Order?  Do share, I’d love to hear from you.

May you be a little inspired!
Until next time,
DaNita