Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Help for Jumbled Jewelry!




These are some things I made a few days ago, and I just had to share them! I don't know about you, but jewelry organization has always eluded me. Jewelry boxes just scramble everything up, and besides that, I have so much jewelry that it got to the point that I had 3 or 4 jewelry receptacles of various kinds that didn't match, and it drove me crazy even looking at them. One day I came across an article in Real Simple magazine (one of my faves) that explained how to turn your jewelry into a work of art. I took that idea and modified it a bit, and this is what I came up with. I love the frame shown on the left, but the glass in it recently broke, so I was planning to just Goodwill it. Instead, I picked up a large roll of cork material at Beverly Fabrics for $5.99. I cut two pieces that would fit inside the frame, glued them together with Tacky Glue to create a cork mat about 1/4 inch thick, then covered the cork with blue silk fabric I already had in my craft stash. I put that inside the frame and then hung it on the bedroom wall like a picture. I picked up a box of pretty, plain, silver straight pins from Beverly's ($2.99) and used those to hang my necklaces. I still had a lot of jewelry left to organize, so I bought another roll of cork and did the same thing with the larger matted black frame, using 1/2 yard of a cotton fabric I bought at Beverly's for about $2. Then, I decided to experiment with something that could also contain my earrings. All I did for that one was to cut a piece of white cross-stitching fabric and glue it inside of a 5x7 frame, then loop the earrings through the holes in the fabric. These were super easy projects, and I love that my necklaces and earrings are showcased as art pieces! I hung them in a cluster next to our dresser, and even my husband loves the way it looks! Let me know if any of you try this - I hope you find it to be as fun and beautiful as I do. =)

1 comment:

  1. OMGosh, I just cleaned off my dresser and I NEED NEED NEED to make some of these, I think I have some old frames in the garage...thanks!
    Hey, are you still in Seaside? or have you moved out of the area? I'd love to meet up some time for coffee???

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