I have decided this year to focus some time organizing my craft room. To be honest it was screaming to me for some order to the chaos and I was honestly getting extremely frustrated as I couldn’t find anything. So I decided to tackle things one at a time. I decided to do things differently. Instead of organizing them into sorted piles, I decided to organize them so that it looked like a wow craft room. You need to know though that I really do not have a craft room, but one day I will have the room of my dreams. You see my so called craft room is in an unfinished basement. So to make it into organized chaos, I decided to start my endover with storage and cabinets.

So first on my list was my embossing folders. I searched high and low for ideas and I came across a photo album. Yes, I found a 5×7 photo album at Walmart and I picked up two. I like my photo  album as I like to take things with me when I head to the cottage or if I decide to craft during my lunch hour at work and to be honest carrying a photo album is a lot easier than carrying a box.

One holds my retired embossing folders. The ones I loved so much that I wasn’t ready to give up. And the other held my current folders. Now I think I went a little overboard  in organizing but that is because I needed to be able to access information quickly without relying on memory.  And trust me with so many things going on, on  a daily basis, I can’t remember everything.  So labelled them with all the information I needed-item number, cost and if it is retired.  That is all the information needed.

Don’t get me wrong my way is not the right or wrong way of storing.  It all depends on what works for you.  This is just how I would store mine.