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  • Well Ribbon Jar is totally up and running at the new place, and I love it. Everything on one level and all together. I didn’t have to slow down orders at all, I just haven’t had time to take pictures of it. I still have a bit of organizing to do, and of course I can barely stand to wait the two more recommend weeks to paint the rest of the floor green. Before I show you the new space, let’s check the old space out:
    Rj_desk_setup

    Again, a little more organizing is in order. Bj put up the bulletin board I scored from Sumco. I also got those chairs, rolly rolly. The big wall adjacent to this hold the real goods:
    Jar_storage
    I’m still working on organizing the one cabinet because I took all the shelves they had at Sumco and it still wasn’t enough. I want to find some kind of rack that I can set bins of lids on. If you know of any rack that can hold heavy bins that will fit in this space please let me know, it is: 25 tall (but can be lower and I’ll put bins on top) 16.5 deep (can be less, but the closest I’ve found is like 12 and I want deeper than that) and 34 wide (but not really because see the right hand door doesn’t quite open all the way due to pipes). Any ideas?

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  • So when I was younger I got to go to all these cool places for take your daughter to work day; job sites. My dad’s in construction and I loved picking up little left over things or cool looking pieces of "garbage" from the sites, like those little metal pieces that come from putting in new plug boxes, I still have my collection of those fake coin like things. So when my dad acquired a closed Sumco plant I was ready to rummage. This place is the creepiest, coolest playground. The company relocated the crystal growing facilities and wafer manufacturing to Ohio/overseas, both too far to take all the weird equipment they had at the Salem plant. We’re talking huge equipment, strange equipment, and miles of wire and duct work. I’ve been there twice already to get some shelves for my jars, and laundry area (see
    There are so many tubes at this place; pink tubes, florescent tubes, iron tubes that look like Augustus Gloop could get sucked up in one, all kinds of tubes.
    Sinage

    I’ll be back for you little a just you wait.

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    It so strange to find all these little bits of my younger years. I haven’t cleared out every nook and cranny since I moved in when I was almost 13. And though I have almost everything here I still have a bunch of really random things, like this, at my mom’s.

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