Remember my amazing deal on over 100 spools of ribbon?
Well, I’ve been trying to find a space saving, frugal way to store all of it. My first attempt was a major fail. I had some old curtain rods lying around and thought I could put the ribbon on them and hang them up out of the way in my crafting area.
Bad plan!!! First of all…It looked terrible.( I know…the rest of the disaster didn’t make it look any better) Secondly, I had to tear apart many of the spools in order to get them to fit on the curtain rod, and thirdly, if I was using the ribbon on a project that was outside or in another area of my house I had to guess at how much ribbon it would use and remove it from the spool or unhook my entire contraption. The only good part was that it was FREE.
Plan B-
My Better Half had mercy on me and my pitiful fail and went out to the garage and built me a nice ribbon rack. He used slats from an old broken bed we were given…
I know you’re thinking that I just moved all the junk over to the other side of my counter to take the picture…but you’re wrong!!! I’ve been working like a crazy woman and there is light at the end of the tunnel!! It is my organizing challenge for this week. You can check out week 1 and week 2 of my New Year gettin’ organized challenge. Friday, I’ll reveal the rest of this area…I gotta get busy to get it all finished by then!!
What a great, handy hubby you must have. That looks fantastic. I’m sure it helped you.
Looks amazing! Great job and great post!
what a great idea and it looks fantastic.. think I’m going to have to have my husband build me one of these racks.. you are a lucky girl!!
Genius idea, truly! Tell your hubby to quit his day job and start building and marketing these ribbon racks! Love it! I need a few over here!
This is wonderful! I love organized crafts! Makes it so much easier to be inspired and to work! Can’t wait to see the rest.
Sherry’s Bees Nest
I love this way to store ribbon! And it looks great too!
Very nice! He needs to give lessons 😉
Lovely! I am organizing my craft room right now, too and my ribbon ended up in various containers stacked on a shelf. Maybe I need to show this post to my husband. 🙂
I’m still contemplating what is the best way to store my ribbon. This gives me one more option to think about.
Thanks for sharing, Jules
OMG! You sound just like me! I’ve been trying to organize and I was trying to do something similar to hang my pots and pans and free up more space. Glad you found a great resolution to your dilemna…I’ve off to the hardware store for some giant “S” hooks! LOL! I hope I have as good a luck as you! I love that we’re all organizing, or trying to! It’s more fun knowing we can compare notes, pics and chat about it! Thanks!
That’s what I call a ribbon collection!!!! Your second setup is definitely better 🙂
Christine
http://thediydreamer.blogspot.com/
Looks like the fabric store. Nice job!
That looks awesome! Can you make one for me? Lol. I’m a ne follower from HOH.
Cinthya
http://www.eyeheart.ca
Beautiful! I am in the middle of setting up my own craft room, so this is great inspiration! Thank you for sharing!
Great idea!!! Now I have to convince my hubby to make me one too!!
I am addicted to ribbon so I definitly need a better storing solution. Great idea!!!
http://wanttogetcrafty.blogspot.com
very nice!
This turned out great, organized, and yet functional. Good job! Thanks for sharing 🙂
I need one of those – might have to borrow your hubby!! LOL It is so nice and neatly organized – lucky you! Please stop by to enter my digital scrapbook giveaway!
Very Impressive. You could sell them I’m sure. I need one!
Lou
This is perfect! I would love to have you share this at my link party over at Rustic Crafts – http://rustic-crafts.com/?p=4689
Hi Carrie. I just saw your link @ DIY. And now I’m your newest follower. This is such a smart idea. I love how organize you have it. I just pinned it.
Hugs…Tracy @ Cotton Pickin Cute.
P.S. I have a giveaway going on at my blog now. I hope you’ll stop by and enter. And maybe you’ll like it enough to be a follower.
Okay… love this ribbon fix.
Visiting from Motivate Me Monday.
~Kimberlee, The Spunky Diva
great job! And holy cow you have alot of ribbon 🙂 You should join me for http://raisingoranges.blogspot.com/2012/01/handmade-52-3.html
Beautiful! What a sweet and talented “better half” you have!
I just found your blog and am your newest follower. This ribbon organization is BEAUTIFUL!!! Thanks for creating such a fun blog full of inspiration!
That is just wonderful — a very cool way to store your ribbons and it’s “arty,” too! Nice hubby!
CAS
Well done!
This is such a great idea. It looks amazing! Thanks for linking up to Strut Your Stuff Saturday! We would love to have you back next Saturday and share more of your ideas! -The Sisters
Love this idea, I have one of the ribbon holders with the dowels that I got at a yard sale a few years ago & hate it for those same reasons you had with the curtain rods, trying to remove them all to get the one you want & since I don’t have a craft room, but a craft storage closet, yeah that’s a huge issue for me. Right now most of my ribbon is in a big storage tub, I have an issue with ribbon. lol I’m gonna have to do this.
I *LOVE* ribbon too! And I just hated opening all the boxes to find the specific spool I wanted…making another mess although they had been neatly organized. AND…since they were colorful—I just wanted to look at all that wonderful ribbon!! What a neat idea!!! And I have a DH to do it!!