Run and Craft

Well, I started that running thing tonight!  We are using a circut training app I found on my Iphone and I am thrilled to say that it didn't suck!  I was hyping it up pretty good in my mind that it was going to be completely awful and painful so maybe that helped!  Next run is Tuesday and prayers are appreciated!  Ken was an awesome cheerleader.  It helped that he went out first and seemed to get back very quickly.  It went quickly for me as well.  It's a start!


So I have an issue with ribbon.  I keep my spools in a plastic shoe box but it is not ideal.  The box gets messy rather easily and typically gets lost in a stack of other plastic boxes.

So I began to tinker...

I gathered:

• a dowel
• a wooden base
• wooden ball
• brushes
• decorative paints and paper
• wood glue
• drill with a bit to match the dowel width (5/16)
• polyurethane

 I prepared & joined the pieces:

I started by preparing the wooden pieces by painting them each in different colors that coordinated with the decorative paper I selected.  The color used on the base and top finial was teal.  I added in some grey to tone it down a touch.  I used wood glue to adhere the paper to the base as well as to keep the dowel in place in the base.  Do NOT attach the finial to the dowel with glue because you will need to be able remove the finial from the dowel to add/ replace ribbon spools.

Here is the first draft...

I say the first draft because I feel it needs some tweaking.  It's not straight!  But for now I am happy to see the ribbon selection I have and it takes up just minimal space.  

Another thought I had was to purchase and mountwe a simple cafe rod (window hardware) because the rods are smaller and may fit through the holes in the ribbon spools.  The hardware needs to come away from the wall enough to accomodate spool width and allow spools to spin.  

I took this image from the Home Depot webiste http://www.homedepot.com/Decor-Drapery-Hardware/h_d1/N-5yc1vZ1xgtZbqwe/R-100556476/h_d2/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053:

I had the materials for the project I did above so I went with that.  The second idea is still just that - an idea.  I haven't tried it so it's stuck in the idea box...

So I will tinker another day...had some fun though!

Good night all!