Play Room Organization

I'm ashamed to show this picture but you won't appreciate the after if you don't see the before. Our play room has been a mess for a long time and I just kept ignoring it. I guess I was hoping it would go away. Well that didn't happen. So here is what it looked like this morning before I started cleaning and organizing:

So I finally had all I could take. Target had the fabric cubes on sale so I went and got 4 more. I've been wanting to make label holders for the ones I had but just haven't gotten around to it. I went to Mary Jo's and got some vinyl and visited Hobby Lobby for ribbon. It was on sale there and Mary Jo's didn't have any I liked. I spent $5 for the materials to fix the label pockets. I had to experiment with the first couple to get it right. Finally I decided to use the hot glue gun since it was much quicker. Basically I cut the vinyl to the right size ( I wanted to use a 4x6 card for the label) size and glued it onto the cube. Then I glued the ribbon around the edges of vinyl.

Of course the most daunting task was cleaning the room. Emi and I started sorting into piles. I finally sent her out and I began to throw old worn stuff away. Then I started sorting into the 8 cubes. Slowly it came together and several hours later this is what the room looks like now:

Hopefully the labels will help Emi keep it clean and organized! Especially now that she can read, there should be no excuse for her not knowing exactly where everything goes!