Oh dear! What have I gotten myself into??? Have I bitten off more than I can chew with this whole fabric organization project? I guess only time will tell-- but this week has been a little disappointing... I ordered 2 packs of 100 comic book storage boards (acid free) to wrap my fabric around (
a la Kandra's Corner blog tutorial) and as soon as they came in the mail-- I was stealing every spare minute I could to start using them. (Not too many free moments this week, though. Lots of custom orders to whip up...) I had dreamed of working my way through the first package of boards, and joyfully watching my current fabric cubes emptying out as I loaded the adorable little mini fabric bolts onto my shelves. I do love the new look, and it's so much easier to see each fabric with this new system. But I think each 100 board pack (only one side of them is acid free, so I use 2 of them back to back to wind the fabric onto) well, it just isn't going to go quite as far as I thought... I've worked my way through one whole pack of boards. (That
should be 50 mini bolts, right? Well, either I wasn't careful enough picking up just 2 boards at a time, or there weren't really 100 boards in this package. Either way, this means trouble for me... You'll see why in a minute.) I love love love the look of them all lined up on the shelf! Here's a peek:
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| Progress is good, no??? |
See how I have been cutting some boards in half to use to organize the fabrics that I have less than half a yard of??? This should help me see what fabrics I am running out of, so that I'll have a better idea of what needs to be reordered with just a glance! Not too shabby, huh? Almost filled up the top shelf. That's 41 mini bolts, baby. Whew! I'm really making progress now!!! Let's take a look at the storage cubes I showed you last week so that we can see how far we've come in one week:
What??? You've GOT to be kidding me!!! I can't have used up one whole pack of comic book boards for just ONE STACK of fabric. (I only bought 2 packs, remember?) Not even a whole cube worth of fabric? How is that possible-- I don't have THAT much fabric. I must not be remembering what the shelf looked like from last week. Yeah, that's probably it. Let's look at that again:
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| LAST WEEK |
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To be fair, I did organize all the fabrics that I used to make this week's custom orders, and not all of those fabrics came from that one little old stack-- but I sure thought that 50 mini bolts would go a LOT farther than it did... Sigh... This is NOT GOOD. <<
looking over shoulder>> No one mentions this to my husband, got it? I mean, he knows I've got a lot of fabric. But counting it? That may not have been such a great idea... Yikes!!!
I need a cookie...
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