Craft Room Organizing Ideas

• Organize your crafts for convenience.craft a card! image by Shirley Hirst from Fotolia.com
  
  Make time spent in your craft room more enjoyable and convenient by organizing your supplies. Create extra room, and put all of your crafts within reach using storage bins and shelves. Prior to organizing the space, toss out or donate anything you don't use anymore. Turn a craft room into a creative respite with a little organizing and a few decorative and useful items.
  
  

Sewing Space

• If you sew, dedicate a portion of your craft room to the art of sewing. Place all of your sewing supplies in one location for convenience. Install a shelf above your sewing machine, and use it to store spools of threads, baskets of tools and jars of buttons. Buy a vintage pantry cabinet to hold material, fabric scrap, pillow filling, patterns, plain items and up-and-coming sewing projects, such as plain pillows, jackets and blankets. Choose a cabinet with glass door panels so you can easily see what's inside. If you buy a salvaged wooden cabinet that has seen better days, paint it a bright color to coordinate with the overall look of the craft room as a decorative touch.
  
  

Central Project Station

• No craft room is complete without a central work station on which you can create anything from Christmas cards to handmade jewelry. Set up a tall stainless steel table with stools so crafters have the option to stand or sit while working on projects. Place a tired wire basket on the tabletop as a catchall for rubber stamps, ink pads, stickers, glitter glue, glue sticks, scissors, sponges and push pins. Store pens, colored pencils, markers and crayons in small round bins on the table so they are always within reach. Lay a plastic mat under the table to catch any drips. Place wheeled storage bins of spray paint, craft paints and adhesives nearby.
  
  

Canning Jars

• Clear glass canning jars are ideal ways to store crafting embellishments and small decor items. The jars are inexpensive and look vibrant when lined up on a shelf and allow crafters to easily see the contents. Fill different size glass jars with seashells, sea glass, rhinestones, beads, polished stones, ribbon pieces, jewelry findings, buttons and bottles of vibrantly-hued glitter. Mark each jar with a self-adhesive label detailing specifics, such as seashell types, for convenience.