After years of not having a sewing space, I finally have a room (albeit small) all to myself. It is a real joy. I've had fun being creative in my organizing without spending gobs of money. Two of my favorite ideas are for buttons and thread. I have an extensive button collection. Not an odd button here or there but whole sets, some still on cards other tied through with thread or on safety pins. I think it goes back at least to my Grandmother. As keeper of the buttons, I wanted to be able to enjoy seeing them for their own beauty as well as organizing them so that they might one day fulfill their destiny and help decorate or close something. I ended up using small silk pins to create hangers for them on a bulletin board. The other inspiration was to use lightweight chain and small dowls to create a very flexible, highly useful and decorative display for my thread. You can see pictures of these and more on my site at: http://patentingmyre-invention.blogspot.com/. I have been waiting for an opportunity to share the thread organizing idea - it's something anyone can afford to do.