If your craft room or area is a mess that makes you cringe when the company (or you shut the door and entered the room to avoid having to take if), it's definitely time to get organized! Getting organized allows you to enjoy your workspace - and if you enjoy your workspace, you will want to spend more time.
Organization (or lack thereof!) Creative people can be a big problem. Our natural tendency in addition to several projects at once to get excited about, there is fear that if we put off things they will eventually be forgotten. It's chaos up supplies and equipment for the work in progress and finished projects to take our workspace with everything, is built. These items find a home, and keeping them there until they are needed, organized my craft room is important.
Why Organize?
You will save time and money and allow you to enjoy your workspace is being held. Your item will allow you to save time by getting organized easy to find, so you spend less time supply and lost items, and are looking for more crafting time. You pile of objects less than one workspace to another so that work will cost you.
Organized will save you money as you remember or 'lost' items will not need to be replaced is. It is much to know you or supply equipment for a project is frustrating, but are unable to locate it. When this happens, you purchase a replacement item, and always shows the original purpose once your project is completed. Once you are organized, you quickly appropriate items on hand for projects instead of buying new ones, will be able to find out.
Before you start: a space craft, whether it's an entire room, is a part of a room or a closet, items and work places need places to shop. More crafting supplies than you in areas you would like to work in stores. Being held in the simplest form, you need to make a home for all of your items, and you need to put them there! Before you begin, review the following basics:
Storage: Find or purchase a variety of storage items. Be creative - you organize the process more attractive storage pieces you will enjoy.
Recycle: fixed school, church, or charitable organization, which will get your unwanted items. Most schools and children's groups, their remaining paint, glues, and other materials are thrilled to receive. The only items you throw things away without feeling guilty for use yourself.
UFOs: As you work, you will come across in the work progress, supplies you bought for specific projects but never on the work around, and other inspirational items. Not to get sidetracked and start your work on UFOs! Set aside a shelf of works in progress, and store them there. Quick sketches of proposed projects and ideas, then put them away supplies - you will then be able to find them.
Plan: Choose a day to start. The first day you have to spend an hour or two working, so plan accordingly. If you have a simple camera, a picture of your room "before" take. Aside some time next week to organize your space to set each day. 30 minutes is ideal - it long enough to make significant progress, but not so long that you can not fit into your schedule. If 15 or 45 minute session you work better, that's fine. The important thing to spend a block of time each day. Once your craft room clean and organized, so you spend 30 minutes a day will be used for room. Remember that time crafting his time as 30 minutes.
Get Organized! Down plan to attack regardless of the size of your room, follow. For our purposes here, I think you have a dedicated craft room - and it is a mess! If your area is small, and / or better condition, the process itself, but it will take you less. Get your craft space dirty in a day, and not to be held in a day. Put aside a few hours to get started, the small block of time in a day's work, what you accomplish in just 10 to 15, or 30 minutes will be amazed at what can. You will succeed if you follow these directions - and your "new" scope will love!
Day One: plan today to spend 1-3 hours, depending on the size of your room, and much of it is a mess.
1. Gather your supplies. You will need the following items:
* Trash Bags
* 1 large box of giveaway items
1 item in your craft space to return to their real homes do not belong to big box
* 1 temporarily remain in the space to store your craft items that the big box
1 * marker
* Basic cleaning supplies
* A kitchen timer
* Assorted items to leave these items in the storage room until the room is completed. This way you do not have to hunt them down while you work, and you can spend time organizing your craft supplies
2. Label your boxes: today it may be obvious, but a month from now, remember the box you which to keep and which to give away? A way to label your boxes, use markers - "give away", "Keep away" temporary storage "
3. Clean floors and tabletops: going around the room, and any items that are on the floor, gathering up table tops, cluttering Start by or under chairs and tables shoved. "Temporary Storage" Keep these items in the box. You will come back to them later, once you have made a home for them. If you currently see any obvious trash - fabric scraps, paper, etc., place it in a trash bag. Washing clothes, shoes, bills, etc. in the box marked "put away" - any item that has no place to keep your craft room. Should look much better in my room!
For this one day - if you've gathered a lot of trash, throw it away and get a new bag for next time. Return any item in the "laid off" to enter their own homes. Resist the temptation to clean and organize the items you back places to start - for right now, focus on your craft room!
Two days: Plan to spend about an hour today, "stuff", you can shop for items you need and the amount of storage depends on the amount.
How will you organize your items, and everything "will live where the decision. Many items are probably already a home, whether you chose it or not! If your pen and scissors constantly end up on your worktable, holding the items on the table, place a beautiful mug or cup. Boxes, shoeboxes, plastic tackle boxes use - whatever works best and looks best for you. Label each storage items, and the box where the "G" is to be replaced, even if it is empty. You fill up these items as you work.
3-7 days:
1. Set your timer for 30 minutes (or whatever you have decided the time you can leave.)
2. Start at the door of the room and work your way around the room. Evaluate each item you find. If it is trash, throw it away. Any items you do not love, or without "giving away" box can keep, keep. Any item that "put away" box in another room of the house hold. If you decided to keep an item is selected as the place you put into your home. To decide where you really should not be an object, it can put in temporary storage box - do not skip any item.
3. Work stops to watch.
The "give away" box is full, remove it from the room. Close the box and place it in the garage - or better yet, your car, leave it to your destination. When "Put off" box is full, the item back to where they are at home. Replace both boxes, so they are there for the next day. If necessary, throw away garbage bags, and get a new one.
Optional: If you have extra time during the day, continue where you left off from work - five, ten, or fifteen minutes, you can clear a shelf supply a "secret" go through the box, or Many items back to their homes. You remove the item from the temporary storage box, as you can find homes for them.
4. Continue to put in 30 minutes each day. If you have more time on the weekend, and want to spend more time organizing, large amounts of time to do so. Important thing is to keep working on it every day.
5. Cleaning items that you put off while working on projects you are working with them running.
When you have finished: every room is different, so a few days some people will be the organization's process, others will require a full week or longer. Once you complete your way around the room, his "temporary storage" box started going through the remaining items have worked. Several extra days off to use as temporary storage as you need to put items left in the box. The amount depends on the size of your items, it is a few minutes, or may take a few days. Run the vacuum or sweep the floor. Remove the box and enjoy your new workspace!
If your room has a closet, the closet you can use the same organizational system, once the rest of the room is completed. Remove more items than you can put away a 30-minute period is not it.
Maintenance: Look around your room. If you have a "before" photo taken - the "after" photo taken - you'll be amazed at the difference! Their craft as well as it does now to see the place, the daily maintenance is a must. Put items away when you are with them. Set your watch, and stray items returned to their homes each day to spend five minutes at the end. It will not take you long, and my craft room will remain a beautiful, welcoming space, you will enjoy spending time in.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
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