I am SO overwhelmed...

I agree with starting with just one thing. Take that pile of albums and find them a home. Or take that crate of things to sell and do whatever you need to do to sell them. Or if all your stamps will fit on the shelves but just need to be organised focus on just that.

Just walk in telling yourself all you have to do is that one thing. Give yourself a time limit. And go for it.

Or... Grab some supplies and get out of that room to use them! If you have been watching inking videos, start there. kWIM?

And maybe after you have played with them, you will feel like setting up a storage system for them. Or maybe the next time you get a chance, pick up a storage binder or a pretty basket for your dies. Then you can focus on just those,

I find that cleaning and creating use different halves of my brain, and if I try to do one when my focus is on the other the only thing I create is a headache.

The big key for me was to get appropriate shelving so things could go vertical and not have to sit on the floor. Once I had the shelves, it was easy to pick things up off the floor and put them on the shelves. Can your room hold any more shelving or some other way to go vertical with storage?

But it sounds like the OP doesn't have the space for all her stuff so no amount of organizing is going to change that.

Are you using your walls all the way to the ceiling? If so, I'm sorry but you'll just have to get rid of some of your stuff. You've reached capacity.

If there's still wall space, think about taller furniture or shelving that might help you use that space for storage. 

I was at your place last month, I grab a box put everything that I know I will never use and donate it. After that il was easy to find place for the rest and I did 10 pages since the big purge!

Ii agree - go in w/an empty basket.  Fill the basket w/enough stuff to make one layout or one card or one media journal page. 

Go somewhere else.  Craft.  Enjoy.

When you go back to the room see if you're more inspired to go through one small area.

Lots of good advice given already. I have way more stuff than I will ever use up. I have given some of my stash away. It makes me happy and almost all of what I have left I like so I just started giving myself a 15 minute frame to clean/organize then I turn on music and work on a project. Those right now are finishing up projects I have never completed.

This is what works for me. You can stand to do anything for 15 to 20 minutes. Set a timer. When it goes off, you are free to grab a few things to take to another room to make something.

15 minutes a day will get that room cleaned up, but you also need to think about how to organize what you have.

I recently moved halfway across the country. What worked for storage in my old home is not working in my new one. I am having to start over and figure out how to deal with it. There are still boxes waiting to be unpacked.

Yes, I kept more than I should have. However, I know there is a way to organize and store it all. It just takes time.  15 minutes a day (or a few times of 15 minutes each per day) of applying myself will get it into shape.  I am having to reconsider what I need to get to help with organization and storage.  I have been buying cube storage made for scrapbookers. I use a coupon at Hobby Lobby and buy another cube each visit. Sometimes I drag my husband along so we can get two. I have only a small amount of wall space due to the layout of the room that is my scrapbook room. One side of it is stairs. One wall is mainly windows. Another has arched openings. That leaves me only one wall for organizing and storage. After thinking about it for awhile, I finally decided what will help. I am making a scrapping table that will sit out in the room instead of against the one wall. The supports of the table are going to be made up of those cubes. That will add both storage potential and scrapping space, since the one wall is already used up with some shelves, a desk, and a lamp.  The top of the table will be made of laminated closet shelving.

It is easy to feel overwhelmed, but you can give yourself permission to clean, sort, and organize for just 15 minutes at a time. Baby steps will do it.  Good luck!

This seems like a really practical and motivating way to tackle it. Good luck!

I understand where you are coming from. My space is small as well, and I use it to house my sewing machine as well as knitting supplies. Admittedly, it is a case of too much stuff in too little a space, but I have found a few things that have made a difference.

I put some of my less often used supplies in labelled bins and store them on top of the Ikea Kallax I use for storage. This has allowed me to go vertical and freed up a lot of space for me. Also, just putting things in bins helps. You can stack things without danger of wrecking anything...stuff like spare albums, speciality supplies, extra adhesive, seasonal supplies, etc. If it isn't something I use everyday I find it's not a huge deal to unstack the bins every once in awhile to get what I need. Also, I have found that packaging is a HUGE waste of space. Lots of the products come packaged with the cardboard backing and the plastic bubble front, things like that never store nicely in my drawers and taking them out of their packages can be a huge space saver. If I'm worried about keeping things together often a zip top bag or envelope is a smaller solution.

Are there things that you could store elsewhere? Perhaps finished (or in progress) albums could go elsewhere in your home on a bookshelf?

A Raskog cart from Ikea might be another solution, especially since you mention your desk is small. You can use the top to store everyday things you need and the bottom two levels for more storage. Put it next to your desk when you work and it can easily roll elsewhere when you're not working. This also works well if you want to go to another area and scrap...just wheel your stuff in and out of your room.

Good luck...it's a common problem! I will be right there with you spending 15 minutes a day organizing more.

Wookie Mouse's Organizational Challenge really helped me.  I even printed it out & put the pages in page protectors so I would be able to use it again.  I checked off each challenge w/a dry erase marker.  Really worked for me.

I think she used to be a Pea.  Is she still here?

I agree about the albums. I have most of mine in a spare bedroom and the ones I inherited from my Mum are actually in my walk in wardrobe because that's the only place that has deep shelves suitable for 12x12s. The only albums I keep in my craft room are the ones I'm working on.

Like others, I cannot scrap in the mess. I only scrap at crops. If I was you I would grab what I need to do some of whatever I want to do and take it to my kitchen or dining room or living room or wherever I can find unencumbered table space and do my creative thing. I would work on cleaning, organizing, purging and sorting at another time.