How do you organize your fabric, threads, buttons; your papers, inks, embellishments; your markers, paints, and other supplies?
Do you organize them by theme, by holiday or season, or by colour?
Do you organize them at all? And that is fine if you don't.
Although I am not the tidiest person (always something more interesting and fun to do than cleaning), I do love to organize. Organizing and being organized brings me a sense of peace.
If my supplies have a product code, I will organize them in number sequence.
For most of my other supplies, I organize them by colour.
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| Can you pick out the error in my labeling? Hint: It's not the "Red" |
I have watched several YouTube videos to get ideas on how to organize my supplies. All the videos I watched, with regards to organizing by colour, recommend using the rainbow order.
The rainbow order makes sense, however, I have modified this order to put the red at the far right side of the rainbow (right of the purple) and organized going left. Another colour order but very similar to the rainbow is the colour wheel. I start at the red pie piece of the colour wheel and organize clockwise.
All my supplies are organized by red - red/violet - violet - violet/blue - blue - blue/green - green - green/yellow - yellow - yellow/orange - orange - orange/brown - brown - off-white - white - grey - black.
What do I do with my multicolour papers? Each one will have a dominant colour in the pattern. I use the dominant colour to place the paper within the appropriate colour section.
Organizing your stuff in this fashion may not work for everyone. The way you organize or don't organize depends on how you work and what you are comfortable with. Please leave a comment below if you would like to share your organizing secrets.
The answer to the mistake I made in labeling my containers.... they are all labelled in English except for brown. I was talking with my son about something and I accidentally labelled that one in French. We both had a laugh over that.
