For complete strangers who may happen to stumble upon my blog, I make hairbows. Those of you who *KNOW* me well are laughing at that little understatement, since that’s about ALL I DO ANYMORE. Its my full-time job, for sure. I never leave this house, it seems…..I’m a Hairbow Hermit.
My bow business has evolved over the past seven years from making a few bows now and then for my own little girl, to making a few for Wiggles & Giggles….. to now being *THE* bow maker for a handful of stores. My ribbon inventory has grown as well, from humble beginnings where the ribbon I bought at Hobby Lobby and all bow-making supplies I owned (aka a glue gun and a pair of scissors) fit into a cleaning-supplies basket from the Dollar Store…to a few clear plastic shoeboxes from the Dollar Store….. to spilling over into my living room…… to having a closet specially built for my bow inventory when we remodeled our sunroom…… to kicking BF out of our knotty-pine-paneled Man Room so that I could have that entire room to house the bow business.
Next? A full-blown sweatshop in a third-world country…..
just kidding, just kidding……
So now I have, literally, *THOUSANDS* of yards of ribbon here at my house. It is, literally, knee deep in places in my bow room. And that’s a problem.
It gets mashed and creased from where it lays in piles. (I’ll post pictures tomorrow, because right now its too dark in my Man Cave to get good pictures). I lose track of what I have and forget to order a color, thinking I have it, or forget that I’ve already ordered it, because I can’t SEE it in this messy room, and order double, usually in some random color like Redwood or Jade Blue that I’ll never use 100 yards of in a million years. And then there are the RATS that crawl under the piles of ribbon to make nests and suffocate to death and I find their rotting carcases by following the stench of their decaying rat-fur……..
Not really.
Not yet.
But it could happen.
So I presented this idea to my brilliant dad, who can build or fix ANYTHING, of some sort of ribbon rack where I can hang the ribbon up and prevent the above-mentioned issues. And he built THIS for me. 🙂
I still have to put in the metal rods to hang the ribbon on, but look at how NICE this is! It looks like a piece of furniture almost!
Look at this DETAIL….(the detail on the WOODEN RACK….not the detail of the dirt on my rug. Thank you.)
I am so excited about my ribbon rack, I can’t even tell you. And grateful. I really, truly needed this!!! Thanks dad. 🙂
I promise to never again imply that chemists are nerds and/or post pictures of you from the 1970s that I stole from your house.
I’m sorry for all those rude words and dirty looks between 1984 and 2001. Give or take.
And all those tuition hours you paid for that I flat-out wasted.
And those three vehicles of yours that I wrecked…….
And those times you thought I was safely tucked in my dorm room in Marshall, studying and reading the Bible, and I …. wasn’t.
Ooooh………………you didn’t know about that?? Nevermind……..I was just, ummm, kidding about that last one………
I love the ribbon rack! It’s awesome!!!<BR/><BR/>My dad made me a snow cone machine once. It was THE BOMB. Normal kids had lemonade stands but my sis and I – we had a snowcone stand to die for! I should find pictures and post about it.<BR/><BR/>I digress… enjoy that ribbon rack – looking forward to before and after pictures of the mancave 🙂
I looked at the picture of Uncle John from the ’70’s that you stole from his house… and that’s just how I remember him. NOT nerdy… just really smart.<BR/><BR/>I remember him better sitting at a chessboard with my dad at Christmas. Or in his garage taking something apart.<BR/><BR/>I could always count on your dad for advice. Once, I called him from Kansas City on the phone I had dragged
Oh… and are you selling your bows at http://www.etsy.com yet?
LOVE the ribbon rack! Way to go, Paw-Paw!
Oh you are hilarious! The bows are awesome too!<BR/><BR/>Found your site through PDub. :)<BR/><BR/>~Liz<BR/>www.AGiveawayADay.blogspot.com<BR/>www.LovingThisMomStuff.blogspot.com<BR/>www.JustAnotherLiz.blogspot.com