Ribbon Organization

I finally finished my RIBBON organization project. WHEW!!! What a project that was. If you are looking to get carpel tunnel, this is definitely a good way to get it. Lots of repetitive motion. LOL. Glad its done and I have all of my ribbon in one spot. It's all neatly organized any easy to find! Before I had 4 of those floss boxes filled to the brim with ribbon, 3 of the drawers that I have my ribbon in now were filled with spools and loose ribbon, 2 other boxes were filled to the brim with ribbon cards and I had bags of ribbon spools that I just couldn't find a place for. So every time I needed ribbon I had to look in various places to find what I needed. Most of the time I just gave up and went ribbon-less. Now it's done and I am a proud owner of a very organized ribbon collection! Yeah! I started by cutting up white foam core board into 2" X 3" sections. It was very easy to cut by making one pass in both directions before cutting all the way through. That way you only have to use the ruler for the first pass. I bought my foam core boards at JoAnns using my 40% off coupons. I then started winding my ribbon around the narrow part of the foam. I used a rubber band to secure the end.I divided up my ribbons, fibers and twine into 6 drawers...White, Black, Brown, Cool, Warm, and Print.My white drawer includes the off whites, creams and silvers.Blacks include my Black and White prints since I have lots of those.My Brown drawer includes the golds and natural twines, and leather.I decided the best way to divide my colors is by warm and cool colors. And to have any with obvious prints in a separate drawer. Some of the skinny ribbons or ones with a small amount I was able to fit a couple on one piece of foam core, leaving a gap between them. I didn't worry about brands except my Papertrey Ink ribbons. For those I simply wrote PTI on the Foam Core. I don't think I will be buying ribbon any time soon. LOL but I don't want to buy a color that I already own. My patterned and print ribbon drawer is packed with all of the ribbons that have multiple colors. I had forgotten that I had a lot of these. I tried to place the co-ordinating ribbons next to each other so they are easy to find.