Mission: CRAFTY Organization

So, I don’t know about everyone else, but I don’t do your typical “Spring Cleaning” and very often I find myself under a mountain of STUFF. You know the show “Hoarders?” How about “Clean Sweep?” Any of those shows where you see a mad collection of stuff that gets cleaned out and organized…that’s me. I would be a great participant, except unlike those people who claim to be embarassed and ashamed, I really am. I refuse to air my unfortunate housekeeping skills on national television.
I always find a nice holiday weekend like Labor Day, where I work all weekend long, to start cleaning things out. Which brings us to the topic of the day. Crafting stash. Please note: I did not say Yarn, or Bead, or Paper. No. I said Crafting. Because in every room in my house – yes, that includes rooms that aren’t mine, per se – I have a bin, or a box or just a mere pile, of crafting stuff.
As I went looking for my copy of the Sorcerer’s Stone DVD, I found a yarn stash to rival any local yarn shop. I also found lots of wire, beads, pliers, scrapbook backgrounds, empty scrapbooks, glue. Admittedly, sitting here at my desk I am looking at a cup full of knitting needles, various sizes of course, and crochet hooks. There is a pile of seed beads on my desk just beyond my keyboard, and my feet are resting on, yet, another pile of yarn.
And I wonder why I can’t ever find what I’m looking for.
Of course, I have so much else to do, what with feeding the kids, laundering their clothing, and just keeping the house live-able, that organization of my crafting stash seems like such a foreign concept. I hope, and I wish, and I pray but I don’t really know when I’ll get to it.
What does your stash look like? Is it organized? Do you have a room to yourself? And did you spend any money to organize your stash or did you just work with what you had?
Merlin help me! I think a good organizing charm would do well here.
–Crafty Witch Jo Anne (a.k.a. JavaStix)