Organizing My Craft Room: A Journey of Transformation

As I stood amidst the chaos of my craft room, I knew it was time to take action. The space was bursting with unorganized chaos, and I needed a way to reclaim it. So, I decided to start by clearing everything off the shelves and sorting items into categories. This process was not an easy one, but it was necessary for me to create a functional and organized space.

I began by setting up my study bin, which would serve as a central hub for all my educational supplies. I placed flashcards, pencils, and other essential tools within reach, making sure they were easily accessible for both myself and my daughter. To make the most of this bin, I added labels to categorize each item, ensuring that we could quickly identify what was inside.

Next, I tackled the task of organizing my miscellaneous items from the Dollar Tree. The collection consisted of leftover ribbon, tags, accessories, and other knick-knacks that I had accumulated over time. By grouping these items together, I was able to find a home for each one, eliminating clutter and creating a sense of order.

As I continued on this organizing journey, I turned my attention to the ice cube tray. This humble item proved to be a versatile tool, perfect for crafting tiny thread bobby things that could be used to make bracelets. I filled the trays with additional items, including buttons, ladybugs, and embellishments, creating a makeshift collection that would serve as inspiration for future projects.

Another drawer caught my attention, which had been left untouched for quite some time. Upon opening it, I discovered a trove of miscellaneous items, including Circle wood cutouts, glitter, and glue sticks. These supplies would be used in various crafting endeavors, and by grouping them together, I was able to make the most of this drawer's potential.

To further enhance my organization system, I created a label for each section of the room, providing a visual reminder of what lay within. This helped me stay on track, ensuring that everything had a designated home. With labels in place, I felt more confident that I could maintain this newly organized space.

In an effort to utilize every available inch of my craft room, I experimented with different storage solutions. The colory organizer proved to be an excellent addition, allowing me to categorize paint brushes, pencils, and other supplies by color. This system not only made it easier to find the right tools but also created a visually appealing display.

Moving on, I turned my attention to the third drawer, where I employed the same organizing technique as before. This time, however, I utilized an even more specific approach, grouping items like pens, button pins, and safety pins together. The result was a tidy collection that would serve as inspiration for future crafting endeavors.

As I delved deeper into my craft room, I discovered various other sections that required attention. In one drawer, I found a assortment of paint brushes, pencils, and miscellaneous items, all grouped together to create an organized whole. Another section was home to a variety of materials used in scrapbooking, including books on the subject.

In an effort to make the most of my space, I repurposed an old locker shelf from my daughter's time at school. By converting it into a storage unit for glassware and other supplies, I created a functional addition to my craft room. This new section would provide me with ample storage for items that were difficult to organize elsewhere.

As I explored the various sections of my craft room, I came across several books purchased from the Dollar Tree during Halloween celebrations. These books had been relegated to the back of the shelf, but now, they found a new home among the crafting supplies. By placing them in the craft room, I was able to utilize these resources and create new projects.

Finally, I addressed my collection of games, cheer clothes, and costumes, which were tucked away into various boxes and bins. By grouping these items together, I created a visually appealing display that showcased the different themes and ideas on hand.

In conclusion, organizing my craft room was a transformative journey that required patience, dedication, and creativity. As I looked around at the newly organized space, I felt a sense of pride and accomplishment knowing that I had reclaimed control over this sacred area of my home.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys so I have been in desperate need to organize my craft closet so badly it was completely out of control I really couldn't see half of the items in there and I knew that it was simply time to give it a makeover of course I wanted to give it a makeover using Dollar Tree items simply just because I always want to do things on a small budget being a single mom I only have my own income and no one else's so I have to do things on a budget and Dollar Tree has amazing items for storage so if this video is going to inspire you to clean out a room or a closet of your own here are some tips for you that I've compiled after going through this process and learning from it tip number one be comfortable put on your favorite sweats put on whatever it is that you are comfortable in and that you love tip number two put on a movie or music things that have like a noise or something in the background can really distract you from the overwhelming process and actually put a smile on your face and it won't seem like such a tedious task tip number three make yourself a drink and snacks have it handy have it ready in that room so that you don't have to constantly get up and move about your house and it'll take you even longer to get your organizing done tip number four this is something I learned the hard way scan your room and your items of whatever it is that you're organizing scan those items and begin to write a rough list or even an exact list if you know of what kind of bends and storage boxes that you need for me I just went blind to the Dollar Tree didn't even look in my craft closet I went to the Dollar Tree just saw some storage items bought them and then had to figure out whether they were going to work or not later so definitely go scan your items first write your list and then take it with you to the store I learned that you were freeing up space that your items were clean and nice and that you save money the reason why I'm telling you that is because I had hauled in my last Dollar Tree haul a spool of ribbon and I had commented in my haul in that video which I will link Down Below in the description box if you want to go check it out I had mentioned that the reason why I purchas Red Ribbon was for a gift well after organizing my craft closet and going through all of my spools of ribbon I had like four things of red ribbon so being organized and seeing your items means saving money because next time what I will do is if I have to get a gift or something like that I will just go into my craft closet open up my drawer see what I have and then write my list and go from there so let's go ahead and get started I hope you guys enjoy this video I hope it inspires you to clean up any rooms that need some organization and that you can do things on a small budget and I hope you guys have a really good week bye here is my fourth of July race that I also made on my channel a couple years ago living that cheer life there's always pom poms in my house trophies I really need to get shelves for all my trophies cuz they're just taking up space in the closet also be sure to get like a little trash bag so that when while you're cleaning there's lots of things that you may have to throw out have this handy so that you don't have to keep walking back and forth to your trash can it's time to clean out this area more pom poms okay so now that I have everything kind of cleared out except for this very top here with the teddy bears and items I'm going to leave those there for now cuz I really don't know where else I would put them I did decide that I'm not going to have any holiday items in here for right now I'm going to attempt to take Valentine's Day stuff Easter stuff that I found in here and put it into my entryway closet so with that said I'm going to move on and do the next step which is cleaning so I'm going to clean the top of the shelves I'm going to wipe down the dresser and I picked this up at the Dollar Tree I've talked about this I haul this and I love this so for now the this could change but I think I want to set these on top of this dresser it fits perfectly and I do like how that looks of course I could also um get some labels which I think I will but I don't know what's going to go inside of them yet so that's not my biggest concern okay so I also haul these two big bends from the Dollar Tree as well and I'm just testing this out so let's see what they look like up here I really like that that looks really nice as I'm going through my items I have found some Easter stuff in a bag from the Dollar Tree and found more Easter stuff in this glass jar and this glass jar is really great I do a lot of Dollar Tree florals so I'm going to go ahead and pour all of this into this bag and then I will reuse this for a craft in the future I'm finding a lot of great things I've always kept my daughter's binders and inserts and stuff like that after each year of school so as I'm seeing things like this I'm realizing how I can use this to utilize for my sticker organization I talked about wanting to get a binder and really organize my stickers so that I can see them all so I'm excited to find this because this looks like an an amazing huge sturdy binder to hold all of my stickers it's five star didn't even know she had this I love this so I'm going to be repurposing this I have more jars filled with Easter stuff that I can take it back out and use this for something else that I need to organize I have been wanting to find these I needed these mason jar lids because I'm doing a Christmas tutorial with these so I'm so excited that I found these and then I have just like really R like trash I have trash I have random stickers I have like inserts from picture frames that I've taken out it's just so bizarre I have tons of scrapbook I mean stickers I didn't even know I had stickers in here I have a ton of Christmas bags it's like none of the stuff is organized stickers oh my gosh more stickers a bag full of random stuff yarn ribbon felt sewing kits sunglasses kits oh my God this is going to take me days I mean look at this how have I even done any crafts successfully I don't know a ton of mod podge and this is just like glue to save a puzzle if you put a puzzle together you can add glue to it and keep it in that way forever and like hang it up and put it up which I think is really cool if you have like a spare room and you don't know what to do with it and you like Puzzles do a bunch of puzzles put the glue and then frame it and put it all over your walls here are some really cool containers from the Dollar Tree so I will be using these for organizing today oh my gosh I have a ton of these if you have been my subscriber from day one you've seen these in one of my first videos old old videos no editing and honestly you don't know what to do with these anymore pencils pencils and then a bunch of stencils so now that I've cleaned out all of my drawers it gives me the chance to kind of look at everything that I have and decide how can I best organize these items now of everything that I had the most item that I saw frequently was ribbon so now I'm deciding okay okay how much ribbon is that will it fit into one of those Dollar Tree containers or does it actually need its own entire drawer in my dresser after seeing all of the ribbon the size of the like some of the biggest spools of ribbon I've decided that I'm going to dedicate one entire drawer for ribbons so let's go ahead pull all of those ribbons from all of its random places put them together spool them up nicely and start organizing them into one of these drawers okay so now I'm going to focus over on the shelf over here this is a great space and height if you were to use this closet for clothes right because you've got a bar here there's a bar at the top here that you can't quite see but because I'm not actually storing clothes on this top rack it's kind of like a lot of dead space so a a great way to utilize a space for storage would be to add some shelves now this is actually something that I found in amongst all the junk in here part of the junk was a bunch of like locker items from my daughter's Middle School years and I went through a bag and found the shelf and thought why don't I use this put it here and I can maximize some additional space I'm going to just store some glass containers under here they fit really nicely I have finished now let's look inside each drawer so inside this first bucket I decided to put all of my mod podge and paints and this bucket it's just kind of a collection of little random ROM items little bows and just other craft items Marbles and extra ribbon and then this is going to be just a study bin I'm going to put more items in here for my daughter these are just like flash cards and pencils so that she can study effectively and then I will get labels and put them here so that we know what's in here and this bucket is is just a ton of homecoming stuff leftover ribbon tags accessories and then in this bucket is just kind of yarn little pom poms Moss balls and Spanish moss and this for drawer I actually didn't do much to it the I organized this by just miscellaneous items from the Dollar Tree that I'm not sure what I'm doing just yet with it here here is this drawer as you can see the ice cube tray was perfect for these little thread Bobby thingies that you make for bracelets I put additional ones here and then I just kind of fill these up with like little random items like buttons these are like little ladybugs just embellishments and some like sticker tags that I didn't have a home for and I love that I have a ton more left for anything new these already have some like Circle wood cutouts um I use these for a cheer thing and so they fit nicely in here I put glitter in this side inside this container they didn't all fit but I didn't know where else to put my Glitter In the meantime here's some more glitter and I used this box to put all of my sewing stuff if I can open it so I put the sewing kit I put the sunglass repair kit and I'm absolutely thrilled about this because it's now in one place and I will always find it here's a bag just of ribbon scraps and then I have little craft items like clothes pens and little C boards I have actually a really interesting thing I want to do with that I will share it with you guys I have some skin sticks and then I put the letter cutouts over here and then I have some fabric markers over here in the third drawer I used the colory organizer I put some paint brushes and pencils and like miscellaneous items these are like um penss what do they call those button pins I don't know and safety pens and like Random clips and then I have just some tape and hot glue sticks and inside of these are just like different colored rhinestones these are like hearts these are little flowers these would be great for pocket lettering these are like black pearls and just pink rhinestone and these are the black buttons and then here are my two little black cans from the Dollar Tree I'm actually going to put sponges in here I have some that are still wet in my kitchen so once they're dry they'll go in here these are my old tin cans these have like Marty Gro beads I've never really been to Marty Gro but not sure where I got those but keeping those anyway and then I have this I purchased this a long time ago for a certain project and never really used it I think it might have been for like my daughter's birthday party so it's like white and gray black flowers with glitter on it so this can is kind of really empty and then I love this right here so much it's kind of ridiculous but this is just where I'm putting all of my tools which is so refreshing because now I can see what I have I can see what I don't have and it'll always be in the same place now this is my ribbon drawer which I'm really excited about that's a lot of ribbon I know but this is accumulation over 10 years so I'm super excited about this and now I will check this drawer before I go out and buy more ribbon and then this drawer has all of my scrapbooks and a huge tub of rhinestones and just kind of like binders that I may use for something and books on how to scrapbook okay over in this section I loved that I repurposed my daughter's Locker shelf I was able to fit some glasswar back here and I love keeping it in here because this is my craft closet so time for me to do a craft with glass jar I can see what I have on hand these are two books from the Dollar Tree that I actually hauled for Halloween I wanted to do some more spell books but I never got around to it so these books are going to stay in my craft room and when it's time to do Halloween again I will pull these out and make some crafts with it and then I have all of my games here and then all of my daughter's clothes cheer clothes and then this box has a bunch of like costumes and stuff because because in cheer they do a lot of theme days and so it has like a lot of like wear for themes like Star Wars and tutos and stuff it doesn't look like that there's that much in there but there's a lot in there and that's thathey guys so I have been in desperate need to organize my craft closet so badly it was completely out of control I really couldn't see half of the items in there and I knew that it was simply time to give it a makeover of course I wanted to give it a makeover using Dollar Tree items simply just because I always want to do things on a small budget being a single mom I only have my own income and no one else's so I have to do things on a budget and Dollar Tree has amazing items for storage so if this video is going to inspire you to clean out a room or a closet of your own here are some tips for you that I've compiled after going through this process and learning from it tip number one be comfortable put on your favorite sweats put on whatever it is that you are comfortable in and that you love tip number two put on a movie or music things that have like a noise or something in the background can really distract you from the overwhelming process and actually put a smile on your face and it won't seem like such a tedious task tip number three make yourself a drink and snacks have it handy have it ready in that room so that you don't have to constantly get up and move about your house and it'll take you even longer to get your organizing done tip number four this is something I learned the hard way scan your room and your items of whatever it is that you're organizing scan those items and begin to write a rough list or even an exact list if you know of what kind of bends and storage boxes that you need for me I just went blind to the Dollar Tree didn't even look in my craft closet I went to the Dollar Tree just saw some storage items bought them and then had to figure out whether they were going to work or not later so definitely go scan your items first write your list and then take it with you to the store I learned that you were freeing up space that your items were clean and nice and that you save money the reason why I'm telling you that is because I had hauled in my last Dollar Tree haul a spool of ribbon and I had commented in my haul in that video which I will link Down Below in the description box if you want to go check it out I had mentioned that the reason why I purchas Red Ribbon was for a gift well after organizing my craft closet and going through all of my spools of ribbon I had like four things of red ribbon so being organized and seeing your items means saving money because next time what I will do is if I have to get a gift or something like that I will just go into my craft closet open up my drawer see what I have and then write my list and go from there so let's go ahead and get started I hope you guys enjoy this video I hope it inspires you to clean up any rooms that need some organization and that you can do things on a small budget and I hope you guys have a really good week bye here is my fourth of July race that I also made on my channel a couple years ago living that cheer life there's always pom poms in my house trophies I really need to get shelves for all my trophies cuz they're just taking up space in the closet also be sure to get like a little trash bag so that when while you're cleaning there's lots of things that you may have to throw out have this handy so that you don't have to keep walking back and forth to your trash can it's time to clean out this area more pom poms okay so now that I have everything kind of cleared out except for this very top here with the teddy bears and items I'm going to leave those there for now cuz I really don't know where else I would put them I did decide that I'm not going to have any holiday items in here for right now I'm going to attempt to take Valentine's Day stuff Easter stuff that I found in here and put it into my entryway closet so with that said I'm going to move on and do the next step which is cleaning so I'm going to clean the top of the shelves I'm going to wipe down the dresser and I picked this up at the Dollar Tree I've talked about this I haul this and I love this so for now the this could change but I think I want to set these on top of this dresser it fits perfectly and I do like how that looks of course I could also um get some labels which I think I will but I don't know what's going to go inside of them yet so that's not my biggest concern okay so I also haul these two big bends from the Dollar Tree as well and I'm just testing this out so let's see what they look like up here I really like that that looks really nice as I'm going through my items I have found some Easter stuff in a bag from the Dollar Tree and found more Easter stuff in this glass jar and this glass jar is really great I do a lot of Dollar Tree florals so I'm going to go ahead and pour all of this into this bag and then I will reuse this for a craft in the future I'm finding a lot of great things I've always kept my daughter's binders and inserts and stuff like that after each year of school so as I'm seeing things like this I'm realizing how I can use this to utilize for my sticker organization I talked about wanting to get a binder and really organize my stickers so that I can see them all so I'm excited to find this because this looks like an an amazing huge sturdy binder to hold all of my stickers it's five star didn't even know she had this I love this so I'm going to be repurposing this I have more jars filled with Easter stuff that I can take it back out and use this for something else that I need to organize I have been wanting to find these I needed these mason jar lids because I'm doing a Christmas tutorial with these so I'm so excited that I found these and then I have just like really R like trash I have trash I have random stickers I have like inserts from picture frames that I've taken out it's just so bizarre I have tons of scrapbook I mean stickers I didn't even know I had stickers in here I have a ton of Christmas bags it's like none of the stuff is organized stickers oh my gosh more stickers a bag full of random stuff yarn ribbon felt sewing kits sunglasses kits oh my God this is going to take me days I mean look at this how have I even done any crafts successfully I don't know a ton of mod podge and this is just like glue to save a puzzle if you put a puzzle together you can add glue to it and keep it in that way forever and like hang it up and put it up which I think is really cool if you have like a spare room and you don't know what to do with it and you like Puzzles do a bunch of puzzles put the glue and then frame it and put it all over your walls here are some really cool containers from the Dollar Tree so I will be using these for organizing today oh my gosh I have a ton of these if you have been my subscriber from day one you've seen these in one of my first videos old old videos no editing and honestly you don't know what to do with these anymore pencils pencils and then a bunch of stencils so now that I've cleaned out all of my drawers it gives me the chance to kind of look at everything that I have and decide how can I best organize these items now of everything that I had the most item that I saw frequently was ribbon so now I'm deciding okay okay how much ribbon is that will it fit into one of those Dollar Tree containers or does it actually need its own entire drawer in my dresser after seeing all of the ribbon the size of the like some of the biggest spools of ribbon I've decided that I'm going to dedicate one entire drawer for ribbons so let's go ahead pull all of those ribbons from all of its random places put them together spool them up nicely and start organizing them into one of these drawers okay so now I'm going to focus over on the shelf over here this is a great space and height if you were to use this closet for clothes right because you've got a bar here there's a bar at the top here that you can't quite see but because I'm not actually storing clothes on this top rack it's kind of like a lot of dead space so a a great way to utilize a space for storage would be to add some shelves now this is actually something that I found in amongst all the junk in here part of the junk was a bunch of like locker items from my daughter's Middle School years and I went through a bag and found the shelf and thought why don't I use this put it here and I can maximize some additional space I'm going to just store some glass containers under here they fit really nicely I have finished now let's look inside each drawer so inside this first bucket I decided to put all of my mod podge and paints and this bucket it's just kind of a collection of little random ROM items little bows and just other craft items Marbles and extra ribbon and then this is going to be just a study bin I'm going to put more items in here for my daughter these are just like flash cards and pencils so that she can study effectively and then I will get labels and put them here so that we know what's in here and this bucket is is just a ton of homecoming stuff leftover ribbon tags accessories and then in this bucket is just kind of yarn little pom poms Moss balls and Spanish moss and this for drawer I actually didn't do much to it the I organized this by just miscellaneous items from the Dollar Tree that I'm not sure what I'm doing just yet with it here here is this drawer as you can see the ice cube tray was perfect for these little thread Bobby thingies that you make for bracelets I put additional ones here and then I just kind of fill these up with like little random items like buttons these are like little ladybugs just embellishments and some like sticker tags that I didn't have a home for and I love that I have a ton more left for anything new these already have some like Circle wood cutouts um I use these for a cheer thing and so they fit nicely in here I put glitter in this side inside this container they didn't all fit but I didn't know where else to put my Glitter In the meantime here's some more glitter and I used this box to put all of my sewing stuff if I can open it so I put the sewing kit I put the sunglass repair kit and I'm absolutely thrilled about this because it's now in one place and I will always find it here's a bag just of ribbon scraps and then I have little craft items like clothes pens and little C boards I have actually a really interesting thing I want to do with that I will share it with you guys I have some skin sticks and then I put the letter cutouts over here and then I have some fabric markers over here in the third drawer I used the colory organizer I put some paint brushes and pencils and like miscellaneous items these are like um penss what do they call those button pins I don't know and safety pens and like Random clips and then I have just some tape and hot glue sticks and inside of these are just like different colored rhinestones these are like hearts these are little flowers these would be great for pocket lettering these are like black pearls and just pink rhinestone and these are the black buttons and then here are my two little black cans from the Dollar Tree I'm actually going to put sponges in here I have some that are still wet in my kitchen so once they're dry they'll go in here these are my old tin cans these have like Marty Gro beads I've never really been to Marty Gro but not sure where I got those but keeping those anyway and then I have this I purchased this a long time ago for a certain project and never really used it I think it might have been for like my daughter's birthday party so it's like white and gray black flowers with glitter on it so this can is kind of really empty and then I love this right here so much it's kind of ridiculous but this is just where I'm putting all of my tools which is so refreshing because now I can see what I have I can see what I don't have and it'll always be in the same place now this is my ribbon drawer which I'm really excited about that's a lot of ribbon I know but this is accumulation over 10 years so I'm super excited about this and now I will check this drawer before I go out and buy more ribbon and then this drawer has all of my scrapbooks and a huge tub of rhinestones and just kind of like binders that I may use for something and books on how to scrapbook okay over in this section I loved that I repurposed my daughter's Locker shelf I was able to fit some glasswar back here and I love keeping it in here because this is my craft closet so time for me to do a craft with glass jar I can see what I have on hand these are two books from the Dollar Tree that I actually hauled for Halloween I wanted to do some more spell books but I never got around to it so these books are going to stay in my craft room and when it's time to do Halloween again I will pull these out and make some crafts with it and then I have all of my games here and then all of my daughter's clothes cheer clothes and then this box has a bunch of like costumes and stuff because because in cheer they do a lot of theme days and so it has like a lot of like wear for themes like Star Wars and tutos and stuff it doesn't look like that there's that much in there but there's a lot in there and that's that\n"