Sometimes It Pays To Hoard

The other day I was sulking because I had the brilliant idea to make super adorable gift tag sets with colorful ribbon ties... but the only ribbon I had was some solid red grosgrain ribbon.

So I made these little sock monkey tags--

--which I love, but then I thought, "Okay those are cute, but I'm bored of solid red grosgrain ribbon already, and want something colorful with fun patterns."

I wanted something to make my tags all sorts of fabulous... but I had NOTHING.

{insert sulking here}

And then I had one of those A-ha! moments as I dug through my fabric stash. My tremendously huge fabric stash. The one that Will always sees in piles and bags and boxes and says, like a skipping record, "Are you ever going to use any of this stuff?"-- (okay, I should give him more credit than that... he is amazing when it comes not harassing me about my fabric hoarding tendencies too much)

So I pulled out some fabrics - colorful, patterned fabrics - and here are my latest tags which I might just become obsessed with because I love those fabric ribbons so much.



What do you think of my fabric ribbons?

Enjoy!