Wrapping Paper Centre Facelift

Oh my gosh, after bragging about all the things I did last weekend I haven't had a minute this week to show them to you. This was my first month-end closing at my new job and apparently it's normal to stay until 8pm or later each night. I just come home each night and fall into bed. I'm looking forward to the weekend (a 3-day weekend for those of us in Canada!)

I'll try to sneak in a little post here before I pass out on the keyboard.

Many, many months ago I had the hubby build a wrapping paper organizer for me to corral all the paper and ribbon I had lying all over the place. Here's a refresher if you've forgotten, or if you're new in these here parts.

He built it exactly the way I asked him to and I loved it. For a little while. Up until around Christmas time when the roll of ribbon I wanted was always the one in the centre of the row - meaning I had to take half the ribbon off the dowel to get to it.

This is how the ribbon usually looked:

Actually, THIS is how the ribbon usually looked - because I was too lazy and annoyed to put it back up where it belonged:

I thought about it for a while and came up with a plan to make it more efficient. I removed the dowel and the hooks for the ribbon holder and had Tom build an angled shelf in its place. It's really just two pieces of wood - one across the back (not even completely necessary since it's against the wall) and one at the front that is angled slightly above horizontal, to keep the ribbon from rolling out.

We had already attached two little blocks to the front of the main pieces so that the ribbon dowel stood out further than the wrapping paper rolls, so it was just a matter of cutting the bottom corner off at an angle and attaching the "shelf". I've amassed so much ribbon in the last year that I had Tom build a shelf on the bottom too. The tissue paper hanging along the bottom wasn't really working for me anyway.

I puttied all of the screw holes and gave it a new coat of white paint. You'd never know that it was a re-vamp at all. And now all of my ribbon is easy to see and easy to get to. I'm a happy little crafter!

Here's a side by side so you can see the changes:

Not earth-shattering, but just a little tidier and user-friendly.

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