Craft Room Organizer

The last frontier in my craft room ~ the back of the door.  I thought I had used every inch of space I possibly could in this small storage room that I took over for my craft room when we moved from Long Island to Ohio 3 1/2 years ago.  Well, now I have! 

I purchased a canvas shoe organizer with 24 pockets (Amazon.com). 

I have loved seeing these pocket organizers, that look like shoe organizers, from fellow bloggers.  You can see these, and a few others, on my Pinterest board, Craft Sewing Rooms.

The Feathered Nest

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My Desert Cottage

Sweet Remembrance on Flickr

Cottage Dreams

Andrea Tarling on Flickr

I decided to go the lazy way by using the shoe organizer for my base and embellishing it to get the same look as my inspiration pictures above.  I pulled together different trims, laces, napkins, handkerchiefs, fabric scraps, etc., and laid them out on the pockets to see how I wanted them.

Then I just used hot glue to adhere the different embellishments to the pockets or along the sections of the organizer.

I will continue to embellish this as time goes on and I find pieces of trim, fabric and lace that I like and think will look pretty on this organizer.

Meanwhile, for ease of labeling to know what is in each pocket, I used some plain tags I had and an alphabet stamp set for labeling each pocket.  I’ll continue to do that as I decide what I want to put in each pocket.

I also used some decorative clothes pins I had in my supplies to clip the tags (tied with string) to the pocket. 

I hope to use this organizer for all those little things I pick up at the craft store that I just don’t have a spot for in the drawers.  Plus, I don’t want them to get lost by me just sticking them in a random drawer. 

This will help me to keep things organized.  And in a pretty way!

Now to get the second half done!  I’ll share this again once I have the whole thing done.