Organize, organize, organize!

Now this is what I was born for: Organization

After doing a whole lotta research (Derek would be so proud!), I have come up with a handy guide of what and how to ORGANIZE.

I love organizing stuff. I took a couple of snapshots of the one room in our house that is organized and labeled: my craft room.

I always buy the storage boxes at Michaels when they are on sale 3 for $5 (they are regular $4.99 each). At the moment, I have about 13 boxes. Incidently, they are on sale right now - go grab some!!

My Rubbermaid rollies:

1st Rubbermaid:

Yarn

Keepsakes

Bought Cards

2nd Rubbermaid:

Seasonal (stickers)

Occassions (stickers)
Alphabet ~ Words (stickers)

Misc (stickers)

Supplies (cutting mat, scissors, etc)

Paper (12 x 12 paper)

3rd Rubbermaid:

Paper pads

Stamps (and ink)
Cardstock Pieces (all in baggies)

Flowers (material, silk flowers)

Now obviously, my craft room isn't the worlds greatest room - it needs some work and MORE organization!!!

Organizing Stickers and Embellishments:

Binders: A large binder filled with plastic page protectors makes it easy to flip through all of your stickers at a glance. If you have a number of smaller stickers, the pages commonly used to store baseball cards will be quite useful.

When deciding how to organize scrapbook stickers, you have a number of options. For example:

Theme: Scrapbookers who frequently complete pages with travel, baby, or holiday themes may find this method of organization most logical.

Style: If you don’t scrapbook thematic pages, you can try organizing your stickers into general style categories such as vintage, grunge, contemporary, or ethnic-inspired.

Color: If most of your stickers are general-purpose embellishments, sorting by dominant color is a simple yet highly effective organizational strategy.

Purpose: Separating your stickers into categories such as alphabets, titles, borders, tags, and general embellishments is a simple way to organize smaller supply collections.

Product Manufacturer: If you love Basic Grey, Chatterbox, KI Memories, or other coordinating product lines, sorting your supplies by manufacturer will make it easy to quickly pull together a finished layout.

I, myself, am going to organize my stickers in themes. I have my binders and plastic page protectors, all I need are baseball card organizers for the smaller pieces. Can't wait to get started!!!!!

Some themes ideas are:

ABC's (letter stickers), Animals, Baby, Disney

Garden/Floral, Halloween, Autumn, Hearts

Parties, School, Summer, Sports

Vacation, Winter, Christmas, Words, Holidays, Weddings

Plastic Storage Drawers: Drawers help protect your stickers from damage while accommodating very large collections (like the Rubbermaid rollies).

Boxes: If you’re looking for a storage system that is both functional and attractive, pick up a number of decorative boxes and label each box with the appropriate category (again, go to Michaels).

Bulletin Board: If you like to be able to see all of your stickers, place them in plastic storage bags and tack them to a large bulletin board. Now this, I have to try!!

I also found this:

"Clip it Up" System

Next lesson in organizing: Paper (this is my Achilles heel - I am terrible at organizing my 12 x 12 paper as well as all my little scraps)...

P.S. Please excuse any typing/spelling errors - my computer at the moment does not have spellcheck.