Let's Organize Art And Craft Supplies!

Hello DIYers! I think probably most of us who craft/sew/make art accumulate a lot of supplies, which can easily become quite disorganized. If you've seen my (admittedly rare) posts in The Minimalist group, you know I call myself the reformed hoarder, because I have been working on reducing my clutter for several years (and it used to be out of control). For craft supplies, I put a self-imposed moratorium on buying new supplies, with rare exception, like if I needed a particular part to complete a project. So I've been using up what I have.

I have finally gotten to the point where I've used up enough (I still have tons of fabric though, I need to get sewing, lol) of my craft and art supplies that I can really organize them! So that's what I did this week.

I should have taken "before" photos...

So I started off just trying to do something about the top of these plastic drawers, which had heavy things on top so it had bowed down in the middle. Ah, that totally escalated into a Make Chaos To Create Order level of organizing.

tearing it apart

moving on to the craft dresser

found a pattern that had slipped behind and underneath the drawer where patterns were kept that got torn like this. oops!

But finally, I got that dresser organized, and moved arty-crafty supplies into the plastic drawers, so that now the dresser is all fabric-crafty type stuff (they had been mixed together before).

oh did I mention I ended up rearranging furniture? because I rearranged furniture

I got this printer for free off of fb marketplace! Part of me cleaning off the plastic drawers and trying to figure something out was because I didn't think they could handle the weight if I put the printer on them, since it's pretty heavy. So now the dresser is over here because it's wood and is sturdy

arty-crafty stuff being organized in the plastic drawers

Yeah and then I started organizing the metal cart, which also had art stuff in it. Here's the paint shelf. I organized the whole cart, got some of the heavy things that had been on top of the plastic drawers into it (read: craft magazines I had kept for instructions), and also cleaned up my desk.

So there was my craft organizing spree I went on this week. I still have some stuff to clean up in the living room, but most of it is done! Huzzah!

How do you organize your craft supplies? Or are they chaos? I think it will help me to use what I have now that I have a better idea of what's there.

Thanks for reading and have a great week!