Over the last week a bunch of ladies at the Awesome Ladies Project have been taking part in an intensive organisation of our craft areas.
We each picked an area to organise during the week. I picked my craft desk/bureau & raskog carts that live in our bedroom. My main goal was to have a clean space with the things I use frequently in easy reach. I plan to use this space for working in my planner, doing memory planning, junk journaling and working on my ALP projects like me Book of Me.
So this is my space before the intensive
I started by looking at what boxes I had and what was in the boxes, then sorted all that by the following areas – paper, tools, adhesives, inks, stamps, dies and embellishments.
To start my papers, I decided to put all the paper I could find in the area into one box, that ended up being two boxes. I then sorted my papers into “purpose” – junk journaling, memory planner, planner and scrapbooking. As I was going through I also started creating a box of paper to use during workshops. One only needs a certain amount of old book pages.
Next day was tools and adhesives. I decided I wanted to create a ‘frequent use’ tool and adhesive caddy that I could keep out and was easily accessible. All my other adhesives is going to go in a small lidded box and be stored under the bed.
After I worked out what tools I use nearly every time, I sorted the rest into ‘tools I use a lot but not every time’ and ‘tools that can go to my main craft room’. Some of these will get stored on my pegboard when I get it up on the wall and the rest will go in another small box under the bed.
Smaller stencils will live in an A5 binder in my bureau.
Day 4 was stamps, inks and dies. Dies were easy, my die cutting machines are all out in the craft room so they will live out there. I’ve put the inks I use all the time, my stamp blocks and my stamping tool in the bureau drawer. The rest of my inks will go in my stamping raskog in the craft room.
Stamps I have sorted into:
Heidi Swapp Stop the Blur stamps. These will stay in my Memory Planner raskog.
Planners Anonymous kit stamps. These are going to the craft room stamping raskog.
Stamps for art journaling. These are staying inside but I’m not sure where they will live as yet.
Day 5 was embellishments. I really struggled with this one and I am nowhere near finished it. I have managed to sort my Stop the Blur kits though. Stickers and alphas are stored in an A5 binder, washi in my washi drawers and everything else is in a couple of sets of drawers that will live on my memory planner raskog.
I’ve started setting up storage for my Junk Journal supplies. I bought some 4 drawer and 5 drawer storage for papers and ephemera.
My washi is in drawers sorted by width, except for my Planners Anonymous washi which have their own containers.
Overall I am super happy with what I got done, even though there is still a bit to do but I’m working though it a little each day. I have also learned that I need to measure the space I have before buying storage supplies.
