Creatively Tinkering

 It is done! It took two weekends but the cleaning and reorganization of my sewing/craft room is finished. Let's start with the status of the closet. As you know it was a hot mess of crazy and inefficiency. In my previous post I only managed to get it part way done because a few more storage supplies were needed. After a trip to Target, more storage bins were acquired and organizing began again. Take a look at the before and after photos below: Before Midway through process After  At the beginning there was a terrible mess in my closet, midway through it was looking better and the finished look is fantastic! The Pinterest idea of using 5 tiered pant hangers works so well for me (you can see it in this post: I heart Organizing ). Now all the fabric I have is visible, tagged with the length and width of the fabric and its all easily accessible. Which of course made me want to immediately start working on projects. But I reigned myself in...

 So this weekend I finally got a chance to start in on the crazy that is my sewing/craft room. Below you'll find some before pictures that show off the sorry state my room is in. I'm not sure how or when my sewing/craft room got like this, but I'm relatively sure it correlates with when I started doing conventions. The methods employed for maintaining organization worked for my occasional projects here and there, but then more supplies, fabric and notions started filling every nook and cranny whenever there was a convention to prep for. Before I knew it I was inundated with a whole mess of stuff. My cubby shelf that needs some work. View from the open door. My sewing/crafting table.  From the pictures its a little hard to get an idea of the size of the room, let me just say that it is not big. I don't know the exact measurements, never bothered to measure or ask the hubby what size the room was. Just to give you an idea though, the cubbie shelf you see...