Use What You Have Organizing: Ribbon

I've been organizing everything lately.

One of the things I've wanted to tackle for a while is this mess ...

This is only a small portion of the ribbon pile

because I started this project without taking a "before" picture.

Duh.  How long have I been blogging?

I didn't want to spend money on this project.

I'm trying to declutter, so I didn't want a bunch of jars on the wall.

Then I saw what Chris at Just a Girl did with her ribbon.

I still wasn't convinced I wanted to do this project

because I'm really too lazy to cut cardboard and wrap ribbon.

It took me a couple of weeks of looking at the

ribbon pile to finally commit to wrapping.

But I was still too lazy to cut cardboard, so I used index cards instead.

I took 4 cards (to make it sturdy enough),

folded them lengthwise, and stapled them (you don't have to staple).

Then I wrapped the ribbon.

Once I started wrapping, I couldn't stop because it looked so good.

I fastened small ribbon with a stapler.

Big ribbon I fastened with a rubber band.

This is one of my favorite ribbons.

It's just dollar Walmart fabric ripped up.

I love the little fringe.

I put them all in one of my scrapbook paper drawers.

Isn't it beautiful?

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