Have stress, will organize
July 20, 2006
So when I'm nervous or stressed, I clean or organize something. Yesterday after Keely's nap I cleaned up my ribbon spools.
They were all coming unraveled and dangling down all over the place and now they are all pretty much rolled up. I have two more boxes of pretty ribbon that won't fit up there on those spools though. That's a bummer because I really like to look at them. They're pretty. I plow through the falling towers of thrifted sheets on the floor of my dark, messy, craft closet and sit my giant angelic harp on the floor in front of them and play odes to their prettiness.
I don't really have a harp.
I do like to sing about my ribbons.
(You look pret-TEE! Oh so pret-TEE! So grosgrain-y and satiny and Briiiiiiiight!…..)
pardon me.
Here's a Tip from the Trench I guess. I used these clear over-the-door shoe organizers in my classroom to hold all sorts of stuff. I quickly brought that idea home. I have this one inside my craft closet.
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10 Comments Leave a Comment
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autum | July 20, 2006 at 1:11 pm
You’re so clever, oh so clever. So witty and nifty and smart!!
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Alicia A. | July 20, 2006 at 1:24 pm
Ooooo… good idea! (nice song too.)
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lera | July 20, 2006 at 1:30 pm
holy moly! love all the ribbon! and you say you have MORE?!?
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Luckybeans | July 20, 2006 at 2:43 pm
You are a ribbon laden nutball. Seriously. But we love you anyway. Look, I’m commenting!!! Wow! That means I have TEN minutes on the computer this evening at hubby’s office.
And I’m sure Keely will be fine, although my girls are all worried about her now, too.
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estea | July 20, 2006 at 3:23 pm
good lord, you need the bumpersticker that says “She who dies with the most ribbon wins”
i think i have 3 spools. sad, ain’t I?
estea
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Ali | July 20, 2006 at 4:38 pm
Please come to my house and organize me. I have one of those over the door thingies for my craft stuff too but, fatal flaw, it isn’t see through. I can never find anything in it.
Your ribbons are something else – are they for gifts or sewing or both? You can’t really buy ribbon on spools here, only by the metre, so I have a tin which is a jumbled mess of half unwound ribbons that always need ironing before I use them.
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capello | July 20, 2006 at 4:43 pm
Dear Angela,
I love you. Please marry me and organize my home.
Love,
Laura
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cathy | July 21, 2006 at 8:26 am
Ribbon heaven! I would sing to them too they are so lovely.
The shoe organizer is a great idea! I’m going out to buy at least one soon.
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blestwithsons | July 21, 2006 at 10:25 am
An organized crafter….isn’t there a rule against that?! No? Well there oughta be!
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beki | July 22, 2006 at 1:17 am
I am definitely using that over the door shoe organizer idea. Love it!
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