28 Day Cleaning/Organizing Challenge (Day 8 - Desk)

We don't have a desk, per say, in our house.  I do, however, keep most of the stationary and art supplies in a kitchen cabinet.  As you can see:

  
it is a distant cousin to our junk drawer!  They are on the catch-all side of the family...

When we decided to include this area in the challenge, I knew it'd take me some time to get through this one...the finished product, totally worth it:

and it looks so good!  In organizing, I put like items together (quadrants again) into Ziploc containers (which I had already been using to some degree).  I have to admit, there is less stuff in there...went through and got rid of a few things, put the extra bins under the kitchen sink with the others form earlier this week and then, I also did this:

it's kind of a display of the art supplies we use often, in some glass that I had in the china hutch and empty jars (reuse/recycle at its best).  I figure it will be better for our school-ager to have access when he is working on a project, without the need to pull over a chair and climb up for things.  I have some other glassware that display things around the kitchen like coffee, utensils, etc. so it matches nicely.

Here are two things I also do that are stationary related:

I keep a stock of school
supplies for any last
minute need for them.
Nothing worse than
needing to make a
midnight run for pencils!

Ever have a last minute
need for a birthday card
or the like?  Buy a few
cards for different
occasions and keep them
together for when you are
in a pinch!