Are your craft supplies taking over the house?

LOL! Why yes they are! I don't really have a lot of room available for my crafts, just a little corner in my bedroom that I call my studio. I use totes for finished items like scarves and have many multi-drawer totes stacked up on the larger totes with supplies and finished items. If you think that's being organized, well it's not. I still have a few bags from Michael's AC MOoore's and a couple of boxes of yarn that has been/can't be put away because I'm out of room and it sits in the corner (and I pick from the bags when I need something) I do try to organize my "stuff" once a week, but it really doesn't help all that much...plus I'm afraid if I move something

I have no great tips, but I am hoping to find some. My stash is growing by the day. I have decided I will have to live to be about 250 to use all the supplies I have gotten "great buys" on or just loved and knew I had to make something of.All the patterns and supplies sit patiently for me to make them into something lovely. So I have decided to pick out what I might be able to use and then the rest will have to go to live somewhere else.

I have some of y stuff in a closet, some on a shelf and still more in a cubby. I would love to have thing s organized better. My condo isn't that big, and yet, I am still losing or mis placing my craft stuff. I suspect if it was all in one place it would be much easier for me to know where everything is. I find yarn storage to be the most ddifficult, it seems to take over space so quickly. Right now some of it is in baskets, some in one of those plastic crate things with drawers, and some in a bag shoved in the closet. I think I might like to take a trip to Ikea and see if tey have some better storage solutions.

I have a lot of craft items as well--from my collection of beads, teddy bears, yarn and yarn and yarn...LOL...What I did was get those big plastic containers for storage, especially for the yarn--the great thing is, you can stack on top of each other and they'll only take a corner of the room...so all my yarn is all nicely stored in there. I then have smaller containers to keep all my beads and each color bead is in separate plastic baggies or tubes...

My craft supplies took over a long time ago. I'm powerless to stop them. :) But seriously, I've found that Rubbermaid containers and ziploc bags (the gallon sized ones) can be some of the best storage things around. I put partially used skeins of yarn and scraps of fabric into ziploc bags, and then I put those, along with full (or nearly full) skeins of yarn and the larger yardages of fabric into Rubbermaids. Sure, my whole apartment is stacked with Rubbermaids, but it's the only option I have for storage. They stack nicely if they're all the same size, and then you can just label them as to what's in them, or get the see-thru kind so you know what's in all of them.

Before I left my house for a couple of months I cleaned it all up and organized my stuff. But before that... My scrapbooking stuff and sewing materials took over my entire dining room. This was before my baby daughter was mobile though. I could never get away with that now. She is into everything!

Yes, My craft has taken over. The Lowes creative magazine showed a office in a closet. If you have a spare closet you might want to add some shelves on the top and on the sides and just use some baskets. I am working on using the wall space in my laundry room to store some of my supplies. I have a corner in my den that I use as a home office plus crafting area. The way the room is shaped makes it impossible to use the walls for storage so i will just have to have my stash in two locations. The stuff I am working on presently will be stored in a couple of baskets next to my sewing machine.

well i do have a seperate craft room, but i keep the stuff that i am working on in our living room/family room...i work on beading and crocheting...and i have my stuff stashed all overI I have a cupboard which is part of the tv unit that i stash my beads and the blanket that i am working on...and i have an antique tool box (my house is antique/country) and i have random balls in there, plus my hemp stuff...you see, i have stuff all over too!

We have a special wall shelf against one side of the wall for crafts. It is a huge one. We still have enough room for crafts to fill in.

go though them put them in seperate piles with ideas for what you intend to use them for, if you can't think of anything then put it in a bag and take to your local charity shop. the ones you do keep put in those vacuem storage bags and store until ready to use

Oh, gee... I lost control of my house a LONG time ago, when it comes to crafts! I have a craft room, a sewing room, and a PAPERcraft room... all full! I have shelves everywhere, plastic totes of all sizes, old dressers, file cabinets... anything I can find to put this stuff in! The best is the metal wall-hung shelf standard with lots of brackets but no shelves... I can hang large items in plastic bags from it, and keep things up off the floor!