Howdy, I am Shannon at Find Joy in the Journey! I have been blogging since 2005 and I love to spell about my family, everyday life, geological dating my husband, projects and parties, Project Life, being a mamma, faith, setting and working towards goals, and finding joy in the journey. I Hope you will come visit me!  I'm so excited to be here for Make and Takes summer serial Get Out and Play!

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I believe that quite often it is the simplest things that can add a touch of magic to our days. For me, single of those simple things is . . . . color. I love and live for colours in bright happy sunglasses!  We presently live on in the desert where the backdrop to our years is an ever steady brown. But. When a cactus or sage brush comes into bloom the appearing of color is like a rattling gift that you can't help but be thankful for!

It's amazing how much that small splash of color can lift your strong drink and helper you see the world in a new light!

COLOR is the basis for the outdoor project that I want to share with you today. And as I promised, IT is incredibly, almost comically simple. But information technology packs a punch!

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Gather a few simple supplies to Make a Rainbow Ribbon Curtain:

  • Distort
  • Ribbon in a rainbow of colors (I used satin ribbon with polka dots and wholesome floral ribbon. You can find floral ribbon in the floral section of your craft memory boar.  It is great because it is tough and does well around water and the elements)
  • Pair of scissors

All you let to to is lay out a horizontal piece of twine Eastern Samoa wide as you deprivation your curtain to be.  Keep plenty of extra twine on either end to make it easy for hanging in a variety of locations.

Cut looooong sections of colored laurel wreath (like-minded 6 feet abundant) and simply tie them to the twine.  Oregon you may cut doubly long pieces of ribbon (doubly is a real word of honor!), sheepfold it in half and loop complete the twine to get two lengths of ribbon with one cut.  It's best to pose this out happening the floor as you are cutting, arranging, and tying.  Coiffur the ribbons in a progressive rainbow color gild (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purpurate).

Hang your rainbow ribbon curtain outside and steel oneself against your kids run and jump direct it!

I made my ribbon drapery 3 years ago and information technology has accepted a lot of use.  Hither are a few examples.

On the last day of train I hung it in the first doorway of our location. Upon arriving home the kids could run in and come out of the ribbons in celebration of a school year well through with! How playfulness is that?!

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The next year we hung IT near the kitty and the kids had a clap gushing through the ribbons and into the syndicate! It's amazing how this simple thing brought unstylish the most hilarious, unique, and sometimes bizarre themed jumps from the kids. The creativity was running wild!

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And this yr I hung it up as a backdrop for Judgment Day of school photos. You can see how swell that turned out.

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My 9 year ancient girl right could not mother contain of herself! There's something about this gathering of rainbow ribbons that just brings out the Amusing and silliness in everyone! (Well, maybe not 14 year old boys but I know that deep down inside he secretly wants to jump through the ribbons again).

Take over fun making your rainbow ribbon curtain and then sit back and watch Eastern Samoa the play & joyfulness explodes! Glucinium convinced to have a tv camera ready.

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