Susan has started a revolution this week with her new “Manage It Monday” section in our Chat forum. Click Here to join in!

Welcome to our first “Manage it Monday”! What is Manage it Monday? A weekly challenge and share thread to work on our home organization! Each week will we post a challenge where folks can chat and share pictures to help each other organize our homes and lives! We hope to gain from those of you are already fabulously organized, and we hope to help those of you who, like me, need a lot of work in this area!

Our first challenge will be organizing our Creative Spaces/Studios.

Let’s work this week on coming up with creative organization…for example, using over the door canvas shoe storage to contain buttons, paintbrushes, beading tools, etc. Share your own tips or ones you’ve found inspiring from magazines, books, or TV shows!

For those who already have some fabulous organization going on in their spaces, share your PICTURES!! We would love to see!

We would also love to see the spaces in need of lots of work…the “BEFORE” pictures! I realize some of us would rather no one EVER see those, but come on…be brave! Hopefully you’ll get some great ideas here and then you can come back and post your fabulous “AFTER” pictures!

I’ve also created an e-mail specifically for questions we can answer each week here on “Manage it Monday”! If you have an organization question related to this week’s topic or one we can address in upcoming weeks, please send an e-mail to dear.miss.mess@gmail.com .

OK…let’s see what you’ve got, find out what you need help with, and help each other out! ...and while you are at it, go invite a friend or two to come in and share too

Here are some RESOURCES for our topic this week:

For immediate eye candy, here is a set of creative spaces and organization pictures at flickr.com

And for those who love books, I highly recommend
[u]Where Women Create: Inspiring Work Spaces of Extraordinary Women[/u] by Jo Packham (Here is an amazon.com link to the book…) This book is filled with pictures of the studios of some very creative and successful women and is sure to offer some great inspiration for your own space!

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