Organizing a rainbow of color

I pride myself on staying organized in my home. For example, my herbs and spices are all in alphabetical order. I always use my organization to keep things new and know where things are. I hate wasting energy on hunting for things. Lately, I have really let my quilt studio go. I moved to the bedroom at the back of our home and just literally put my stuff in there and said okay done. I did not put things in order like I normally do and make this space my own.

I am running out of a color I am using on my Marquoir and decided to get out the bag of my extra thread to see if I maybe already had it. I was thinking while going through this bag once again how rediculous it was. I knew there were colors in there I still needed to add to my thread boxes even. I am now going through them all this week and placing thread on cards that are almost empty or new colors I needed to add to the boxes. I am also going to search for a list of the DMC threads so I can mark down what I have and how many extras I now have to avoid having to search for them. I think I will seperate the extras into small ziploc bags according to numbers to make it easier to locate one when needed.

I am spending long weekends with a good stitching friend who is on vacation with her husband up near our cottage. We always talk about how good it feels just to look in our thread boxes at all these luscious colors. When you get home at the end of the month and read this Sonja, you will know I was thinking of you while organizing!