I am a little startled that January is closing in on us so quickly - soon one twelfth of the year will be gone. I will take a moment to see if I am where I had hoped to be, when I rang in 2013...
....hmmm I think so. I am splitting my daytime hours between getting old business tidied up, visiting friends and taking a mini holiday....although I don't think I have spent a whole day just at home doing NOTHING yet. Not even on the weekend. I think I may have to do that, at least once, before I start work FT.
Adding that to my TO DO list.
My evenings are spent mostly with my hubbs and DD. Once E. is in bed, I have been alternating between reading, organizing my craft area and actually creating stuff. Because organizing 5+ years of crafting supplies doesn't happen overnight - especially since I am bringing a bag or two home every other day - the crafting is hit and miss. At least I am *feeling* the creative juices flowing and am loving the little that I am doing.
The rest of the time, I am just being happy - as happy as I can be in the coldest weather in the WORLD....blehk!
SO! here has been my progress this week - on the organizing side, a huge step forward with installing an 8 foot table (from the sbox studio) where I only had a 5 foot table previously. In order for this to be accomplished, I had to remove the door to my walk-in-closet - no big deal really. There is no such thing as privacy in our house. Regardless - an idea started to perk after I took a long look at this mountain of ribbon that came from various parts of my stash.
Yikes - what in blazes was I going to do with all of this ribbon? Then I remembered what one of my customers did with hers (thanks Jan!), and after making a few changes to fit my circumstances,
I started to sort them by colour and using Clip-It-Up Clips, clipping together 6-10 ribbons. As usual, I had help from Midnight, who was there for quality control.
(Just curious, who noticed the wine glass in the upper left corner? Hmmmm? A few people. Ok...This "ribbon-sorting exercise" happened this past Friday evening and Red Wine just seemed to "go" with it. I would like to point out to a certain acquaintance of mine, (ahem H.M.) that there is also a bottle of water for proper hydration. This way there aren't any unfortunate side effects the next day from over-indulgences.
Just sayin'.)
I like this solution because I can *see* quite easily all of my ribbon. It doesn't take up table space, and I didn't have to invest in any kind of expensive equipment. Over time, gravity will pull out many of the kinks and wrinkles but if all else fails I have my wee little HS ribbon iron to smooth everything out. I was able to reuse the curtain rod from the sbox and it is really very pretty. Which brings me to a conversation I had with my hubby at the end of the day.
Imagine me standing and admiring my handiwork, and my hubby wanders by. I can't help myself ladies. The words slipped out before I knew it.
"Honey - what do you think? Isn't it *awesome*?"
-a small puzzled pause followed by a question, that I so richly deserved, he asks me...
"What are you going to *DO* with all that ribbon?"
I draw myself up to a rather impressive height, square my shoulders and look him straight in the eye and say,
"How on earth am I suppose to know?!? What's important is that I *HAVE* the ribbon...you know...uhm....just in case..."
He walks away chuckling to himself.
I let him live because he helped me install the curtain rod and I might need him again tomorrow.
(ps i hope to blog again tomorrow about a few pages I finished in my Pandora Album. it got really late on me somehow and i's tired...g'night!)
wow kitty even...good job jenn!
ReplyDeleteLOL! If P. had asked me that question, I would have just said. "What?....Don't you think an beautiful inspirational ribbon rainbow is not enough? Jeeps. I spent all night making this art." Oh....where is your Tim tag? ;-)
ReplyDeleteThanks Pieri...the Tim Tag is on the first blog post actually, and I even uploaded it to his blog about a week ago. =) In fact, I made 2 (TWO) tim tags for January...oh yeah...not just crazy talk!!!
DeleteOh you, overachiever...2 tags. They look great BTW. Not sure how I missed that first blog post.
DeleteI LOVE your rainbow!
ReplyDeleteFabulous! I ended up sorting my into 5 colour groups and putting them into bins, just because I didn't have the space to hang them gloriously as you did. Some of the bigger spools (because they took too much room in the bins, I just wrapped the ribbon around a flat piece of cardboard (better, much better).
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