Q&A How do you organize yourself?

Hello and welcome back to the series everyone, hope you're doing well. 

Today's question is a fun one and I will go in depth, how do I stay organized as a small business owner? 
I'll do my best to go over everything as best I can, I'll start with the physical organization of my workspace. Lets see how SewnbySabrina works. 

I have a storage closet that I have all of my fabrics and products inside. I have all my fabrics loaded into a large bin. I used to have two of them, but since the start of 2025 one of my goals was to use as much of the fabric that I own as possible before buying more. 
That way I can reduce the amount of fabric that goes unused in my collection but it also gives me a chance to use the fabric that I would have saved forever and never cut into because I was waiting for the perfect project.
The perfect project will never come around, but this project is right here so it's now or never. 
The biggest help to using my fabric stash is my tote bags, they use a lot more fabric than something like scrunchies or lanyards, so its been a good help. It also helps me part with fabrics that have prints that are too big for me to use on scrunchies and have the print clearly visible.

In the storage room I have my bin of fabrics, one with sewn scrunchie tubes that need to be flipped and need an elastic. I go check that one whenever something sells out and needs to be restocked because a large portion of it is there. That way I don't go cut more fabric right away. 
I have a small bin that is full of pre-cut elastic that my wonderful partner cut for me. I had a very big roll of elastic and he cut the whole thing for me when I had expected him to maybe do half of it. He was sore afterwards but I was and still am incredibly thankful to him for that. Thanks to that I was able to sew uninterrupted and catch up on some work. Today I don't have to worry about measuring and cutting elastic when I need it, I can just go grab some from the bin. However, at some point I know I will need to restock it. I'll cross that bridge when I get to it. 

I have a bin with scrap pieces of fabric, small pieces that are still big enough to make something with, I'm just not sure what yet... Scarp pieces that are too small to make anything with, but I keep to eventually stuff another project with, like a pillow. Like I said before I try not to waste anything, and one day I'll most likely make some patch work things out of everything that is building up in that bin. Which makes me excited to see what I'll end up making. 

I have three bins of counted inventory for my scrunchies, one that is all copyright fabrics, they tend to be popular so it makes sense for me to keep them apart from the rest so it's easier for me to find them when I need them. Another for all scrunchies that aren't copyright, which is a mass majority of my inventory, so it gets the biggest bin I have. The third bin is a mixed one. I have all of my XL scrunchies there along with my Christmas and Hanukkah scrunchies. My XLs are easy to grab and find since they are so much bigger than a regulars sized scrunchie and for the moment most of them are solid colors, spare a few with patterns. 
I put Christmas and Hanukkah with them since they tend to only sell at one time of year and its easier for me to have them there together apart from the two others. 

Finally I have my bin of uncounted inventory, a bin that is full of scrunchies that are made but I haven't counted yet to add them to my Excel spreadsheet. So I keep them apart to help keep my inventory online accurate. I'll also mention that the bin fun of scrunchies tubes is not counted into my inventory either. I will only count a scrunchie when it was been flipped and has an elastic in it. 

My storage room is located under the stairs so I have a clothing bar above the bins, there I have lanyards, wristlet and tote bags on hangers. Making them easy to grab and find when I have orders come in for those items. 

Whenever I do get an order, I can look at the items needed and find them easier than just having everything mixed together into multiple bins. I can take everything from the storage room and head over to my work table. 

I have my packing supplies in a separate closet in a dresser, a drawer for specific things. One draw has the basics of everything I need to pack an order, different sized mailers, packing tape, stickers, tissue paper. My printer is also in that room. 

This helps me get things together and out to you and other clients as soon as I can. Once everything is together and packaged up I set out on my little walk to the mailbox and drop it off. From there Canada Post takes it from there and it's on its journey to you. 


When it comes to staying organized in my social media I like to schedule posts, I'll take multiple photos and get them ready to post at specific times and days to keep me up to date. I do the same when it comes to my video content. I can cut up one video into multiple shorts and cross post that over different platforms. 
When it comes to blog posts, I can write multiple of them in advance, sometimes I can even multitask while I do that by filming my hands while I type and live stream that on YouTube. 
I'm working on finding new ways to help keep myself organized so I can have the best use of my time as possible. 

Let me know what are some of your organization tricks, what do you do? 
Until next time,
Sabrina 

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