Organizing week three

I forgot to take a before shot of this drawer. It was bad. Now it's pretty :). Before it was just a jumbled mess, once again, couldn't find things and didn't know what I had. I used the drawers from clear plastic desktop organizers that I had bought on sale from Staples a couple of years ago at 75% off. Check the sale items at Staples, ya never know what you'll find. :) I also have a drawer organizer in there and a few small jars. This drawer is right beside me so I wanted to store things in it I'll use a lot.

From left to right, starting at the top...
I stored my white buttons here because I use white buttons a lot.
My stickles and glitter
regular tags
metal rimmed tags
all things metal
loose paper rings
Fancy pins
paper clips
Basic Grey brads
small pieces of paper, punched shapes
jars of odds n ends Organizing my accents was a huge job. The problem was that they were all over the place, in different places of the room, and very disorganized. I REALLY didn't know what I had.

Those rubons were wrecked when Mikhail was crawling around and curious. He found them and tried to make a paper ball. They really could have been wrecked by they way they were stored but I caught him with them so I know it was him. :)

Here they are afterwards...

The small baskets, which were purchased at the dollar store, at the top are smaller accents. They can be used on any layout. Just below that in the photo the top drawer is accents that can be used on any layout. The next two under it are organized by theme, separated in extra large ziploc bags, and all are in sterlite drawers from Wal-Mart.

My gems have always been stored like this. I have them organized in baby food jars by colour.

I don't have a before shot of my photo organization either. They were in different places in boxes unorganized. They are now organized chronologically. The boxes are the photos I want to keep but don't want to scrap. The photos in the albums are the ones I want to scrap. I like it this way because when I'm looking for photos to scrap I just have to flip through the albums, which are in order, to find the photo I want. My family can also look at them while they are stored this way as well. They are binder type albums so when I take a few photos out I can just remove the page and place it in the back of the album for more photos.

I labeled the albums by year/theme.

thanks for peeking :)

xoxo