Shelf Top Ribbon Organizer

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I spent last month reorganizing and cleaning out my craft room.  It was quite the process and took me much longer than I ever expected that it would!  (On a side note, I have had SEVERAL people asking me to post pictures of my craft room and I PROMISE they will be posted soon)  :)

While I was cleaning out my craft room, I came to the conclusion that I have a problem.  Hello, my name is Lori and I am a ribbon hoarder.  I don't know how it happened.  I don't know when it happened.  Somehow it happened, and I have a TON of ribbon.  Ribbon on rolls, ribbon on cards, loose ribbon, ribbon pieces, ribbon, ribbon, ribbon.

I wanted to come up with a way to store my ribbon that is on the rolls.  Somewhere out in plain sight where I can see what I have and actually use it instead of just storing it.

So, here is what I came up with.  I took my little shelf that sits on top of my storage boxes.

When I first got the shelf, I mod podged the paisley paper and added the flower.  That is how it has looked for the past year or so.

I took my drill (yes, MY drill.  Hubby and I have agreed it is MUCH easier to have our own tools) and I measured and drilled holes in the top of the shelf.

Then I took some wood dowels and pushed them into the holes.  I used some E6000 in the holes before I put the dowels in.  You could also go to the reverse side of the shelf and put a small nail or screw in.  My dowels were really tight, so I didn't see the need to do that.  I can always do that later if I need to.

I slid a washer down each dowel and glued them in place with some E6000.  Not for any other reason then because I thought it looked nice :)  Then I painted each dowel black.

After everything was dry, I put the shelf back in its place and slid my ribbon spools on them.  Of course they are coordinated by color.  At first I thought I could just put them all willie-nilly like.  I tried that.  It drove me crazy.  I had to remove them and color coordinate.  Haha.  A little OCD, I guess.

I also organized my ribbon strands and ribbon on cards nice and neatly in some of my drawers.  Ahhh, organized ribbon.  Now hopefully I will USE it instead of HOARDING it!  :)

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