Tip of the Week! October 19, 2009

For those of you that know me or have purchased from me probably know my favorite embellishment besides paper itself  is ribbon !!! I LOVE RIBBON!  It is so fun and adds so much to a picture page or spine of a book! Everytime I go to purchase supplies you can bet I do not leave without purchasing some type of ribbon! Do I need it?? NOPE but there is always something I don’t have or think I will use! Needless to say I have lots of ribbon! I have tried many different storage methods and have always come back to the same thing!! My first method was to hang pegs in my scrapbook room and just hang it off them so I can always see what colors! That worked great but There was not enough wall space unless I got a ladder and hung it from the very top! So I moved on! I tried to use the clear mason jars thought it was clever, shabby and cute. Not enough mason jars in the world to store my ribbon so on I went tried a couple more hung chicken wire across my wall and draped the colors over curtain rods but it was such a pain to change the ribbon roll in the center when it was full! So I finally settled on a clothes basket! yes a clothes basket! I bought a regular 6.99 clothes basket that had 100′s of holes in it! I unspooled all my ribbon and pulled each ribbon through a different hole! Once I was able to get all the ribbon I had threaded through all the holes it has been easy to just add a new one everytime I get it! when you need to use some ribbon you can just look and pull what you need off and cut it! When it runs out you know it! Well that’s my tip for the week simple and silly but it works for me!!! Good luck! Let us know your tip’s we would love to hear them!!!!

test Filed under Scrapbooking Category | Comment (0)