Organized and Ready

A project I have been needing to tackle for the past 2 1/2 years finally came to a head this weekend. With schooling Dawson at home next year, I needed to get our office supply closet organized!

I had craft supplies and office supplies and scrapbooking supplies just piled in boxes and bags and sitting loosely on the shelves. I also had a three-drawer craft cabinet in the garage full of odds and ends.

I bought several shoe box plastic tubs and labeled them. Then I took to moving all of my scrapbook stuff to the left side of the closet and organizing my supplies in the tubs and stacking them neatly on the right side of the closet, including all of the things in the craft cabinet.

Now it's all neatly organized and in one place in our house!

Ahhh!!!

We are one step closer!

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