Today I am going to share show I organize a couple of items.
First up is Ribbon. I'm the first to admit that I have a ribbon problem. I absolutely love ribbon and lace. For the longest time I had ribbon stored in candy type jars. In fact, these exact jars form IKEA. I have to admit that it looked gorgeous, but it wasn't very practical to use. Here is now I store my ribbon currently.
It is just a craft organizer, and I wrapped my ribbon around embroidery floss cards. The thicker lace and ribbon I can fold and put on the side like the lace. I don't typically use much thicker ribbon so it works for me. I'm also not going to tell you how many containers of ribbon like this that I have. Once I am done organizing my craft room and find all my ribbon and get it wound, I'm going to organize this by color, using the main color of the ribbon as a guide.
The next item that I'm going to touch on organizing is photographs. I used to be really good at remembering when I took a picture and find it easily. As I'm getting older, I'm no good at all. Or for instance if I want to find pictures with the Bellywings in them, and don't care from when they are from, I would have to sort through each month, and then each day to find them. It annoyed me to no end. This is how my picture files used to look:
Very clean and simple right? Well, I couldn't find a thing in there.
In 2010 I started to organize them a bit better. I still wanted them to be found my date, as I'm a bit anal that way, but I started to rename the folders to what pictures were inside.
Now I can easily find all of the pictures with Cullen or the Bellywings in them.
You may have a different photo organization method than I do, and hopefully that is working well for you. I just wanted to share what works well for me.
Remember, you can click on any of the images to make them larger.
3 comments:
Hi Amber,
what a great post. As you, I also LOVE ribbons!! I need to find such a storage thingy too soon for my supplies. They driving me nuts seriously..I do have put them away in lil baskets and stuff but I only have a drawer in the living room but as my supplies grow and grow I need more room...searching for solutions.
Love the way you did it.
Yep, a Scrapbook/Crafting room would be HEAVEN!:)
Keep on organizing cause everythings more fun when you dont have to get annoyed by searching for the right supplie constantly.(Thats how it is at my side atm)
The pic is super cute!!!
Love*Linn*
Great post Amber! My daughter loves to make scrap books, she has made me one that I just love. Like I said too bad we didn t live closer to each other :)
Linn, if you need suggestions for storing things, let me know. :) I'm happy to help! Also, I can get those plastic cases for about $1.50 and would love to ship one over to you if you think that would work for you. :)
You are so right. I get annoyed when I have to search and find the right supplies. I hate it!!! Can you tell I love ribbons?
Oh Janet that is fabulous!!! I'm so happy that you nurture her creativity! I bet that book is just precious. I too wished we lived closer to each other!
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