So I went down to the basement and brought up the "box o' ribbon" that's been living down there since we moved in 2005. I pulled out lots of options and selected red and green satin. There was very little green (2 lengths worth), so I used some gold sheer as well. I cut random length and got out my glue gun (oh, how I had missed it!) Then I started gluing the ribbon back over on itself to make a loop. Burned the (insert word here) out of my finger, but I got the job done. I added some plastic gold balls to the ends of some of the red ribbon. But,when I put all the loops on the curtain rod, it was pretty skimpy.
So, I rooted through the box some more and came up with some more wired gold ribbon. Cut and glued some of that as well and added it on.
When it was past time to undecorate for the season, I just took each ribbon off the rod and threw the lot of it into a box and put it in the general area of Christmas decorations. When it came time to decorate this year (2011), it took me a while to find my ribbon valance. But find it I did, and I didn't really change anything.
So, to make a long post even longer. After Christmas this year, I took down my valance and left the rod sitting on the floor under the cabinets. (I'm such a neat freak, eh?) Last week I got out the Easter decorations and found a bag of plastic eggs. Well, who doesn't have more plastic eggs than they know what to do with? So, I thought, "Hmmm, I bet I could make some sore of valance with these". And I did.
I rooted through all the eggs and found ones that already had holes in them. Then I threaded my skinny satin ribbon onto an embroidery needle and attached the ribbon to the eggs. Tied the knots inside the eggs and then looped them over the curtain rod. When I hung it up, I could see that some of the lengths just weren't going to work, so I opened the eggs and shortened the length by retying the knots. And now I have a cute Easter Egg Window Valance:
