sewing tools

I feel I dread to make a new year’s resolution every year; yet I still manage to come up with one every year (2010, 2011, and 2013). I stuck to my last year’s resolution pretty well. Although I did not sketch every day as I wanted to, I sketch and doodle a fair amount and at least have gotten over the fear of sketching. I want to continue to improve this are this year as well, but my real goal this year is to stay organized. I am not naturally a super organized person, and if you let me, I will have piles of papers all over my ironing board. But since I started sewing, selling my clothes and working from home, I have realized that I save more time being organized, even if the organization process may take some time. On top of that, I watched a few youtube videos by Alejandra (just happened to come across while I was searching something else) and it really motivated to create a neat and clean space.

As a starter, I decided to organize one of the drawers I keep some sewing supplies. In it, I have all kinds of stuff – zippers, laces, buttons, belt buckles, stamps, snap buttons and more! I went to 100 yen shop to buy a couple of plastic containers. I picked plastic containers as opposed to other filing and organizing tools since I can reuse them in the kitchen if I no longer need them. I separated all the trinkets and labeled them using washi tapes, which are also removable.

One thing I noticed while I was organizing was that I was buying more than I needed. My natural instinct is to buy items like lace, zippers and elastics in bulk, because you always need them; however, while I was organizing I found many of the above items that have not been used for more than a year. I’ve decided not to buy any more sales zippers unless they are white or black, invisible zippers. I have many zippers in moss green, brown, navy blue or pale pink that I can’t find any use for.

I feel so much better having a clean drawer! I am planning on tackling one drawer at a time. 

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