STEP ONE: Go to Joann's in search of the perfect ribbon. Get distracted by the 70% off aisle for 10-15 minutes, but ultimately decide you don't need any of it. Arrive at the ribbon aisle and search in vain for flowered ribbon to match your vision. Give up the vision and spend more time than you will admit holding different ribbons up to see how they look together. Finally purchase your ribbon:
The ribbon trifecta: green with checks, blue with dots, plain yellow
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STEP 2: [Important note: already have the paper & border up from the day before, when your boyfriend came to help but instead you kept taking the stapler and doing it yourself, you control freak you.]
Carefully measure the width of the board and mark off every 9.5" so you'll have 13 boxes across and 2 down.
STEP 3: Cut the ribbon into strips and start stapling.
It's all straight, riiight?
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STEP 4: Realize that you do not have enough ribbon. Grumble angrily at yourself for not thinking about this at the store.
STEP 5: Go back to Joann's. Grumble angrily when you notice there is no more of the blue ribbon. Snatch up the green and yellow anyway because you are determined to finish this project.
STEP 6: Go back to school. Start to put up the yellow ribbon and realize you bought the wrong style. Grumble furiously at yourself for not paying more attention.
STEP 7: Switch your focus to the letters for the wall. Try using the felt you bought in the di-cut machine but it gets stuck. No need to grumble...those letters are too big anyway. Di-cut one of each letter in capital & lowercase to be a stencil for the felt.
STEP 8: Realize you have a lot of tracing and cutting work ahead of you. Decide it would be best completed in front of your television.
PART TWO Coming soon:)
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