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The corkboard would be a lot more appealing covered in fabric or wallpaper.

Another DIY project that looks great - I found some flat cheese graters an at antique store and painted them white (and scuffed it up so they looked a little distressed). The holes make great spots to hang earrings in! I also just like using cute bowls for small earrings or rings. You can check some pics out here:
http://s129.photobucket.com/albums/p225/jenniemead/?action=view&current=jewelry.jpg

http://s129.photobucket.com/albums/p225/jenniemead/?action=view&current=jewelry2.jpg

Cute idea Bluej629! I love it!

i saw a good one at a friends house... made from an old picture frame, and some sort of screen/wire stuff. like chicken wire, but a tighter weave (?). she had all her earrings hanging on it. looked cool, and not a cork board.

i do that. only i painted the frame & i hang the jewelry in a more random way.

I make jewelry and will be doing a show in a couple weeks. I'm so stumped on how to display things. I don't want to do the typical neck mannequin thing or boxes of different heights with fabric on top. Anyone have any unique ideas???

i used to store my earrings in one of those small, clear, compartmentalized fish and tackle bins. worked like a charm.

I love the look of jewelry displayed on top of a bowl of dry rice or dry black beans. Not great for home, but cute for a show.

i agree with dmh, the bare cork board is pretty ugly.

I think it was now-defunct Blueprint magazine that had these awesome DIY jewelry display ideas. I made the shadowbox and it's the best way to store all of my wearable junk.

http://www.marthastewart.com/portal/site/mslo/menuitem.3a0656639de62ad593598e10d373a0a0/?vgnextoid=96c8cdc5796b6110VgnVCM1000003d370a0aRCRD

I can't remember where I read it but someone recently recommended using wood coffee mug holders for necklaces -- the kind called "mug trees."

I have an old metal mug tree that I use for bracelets and earrings, too :)

I bought this velvet covered tie hanger from Target's Huggable Hangers line in black and hung it from a hook in my bathroom. Not remotely as cool as the cheese graters or cool glass dishes, but easy and inoffensive and it keeps everything separately displayed and untangled.

http://www.target.com/WHITE-TIE-BELT-HNGR-CHROME/dp/B001GIB7ZM

I love the cork board idea, especially with added fabric or paint, but I find that leaving my earrings and necklaces hanging out like that really quickens the pace of tarnishing!

After having it all hanging out on a wall, I ended up cleaning a whole bunch and putting it into smaller pouches and boxes.

Anyone have any suggestions for reducing tarnish?? (Besides not buying silver...ha!)

I use the sushi trays and soy sauce dishes from cost plus to organize earings and as a soap dish. I also like some of the dishes from anthropology for this purpose.

Am I the only one that thinks dusty jewelry is NOT a good thing? Or am I the only one who lives in an world where dust settles on everything left out for more than a week?

i used an ikea bar, it works great.
http://brand-eye.blogspot.com/2008/07/ikea-to-rescue.html

It's not really the dust that would bother me. (And reading a lot of AT posts after a while gives me the idea that some locations must be dustier than where I live - wind, soil composition, local industry, what have - but I digress).

I suppose as an idea near a vanity where you prepare for the day, jewelry displays are cool and appropriate. I'm sure they're practical in other places, and it's not that the jewelry doesn't look nice individually, but I don't particularly think an assortment of chains and earrings looks as nice in a montage as everyone else seems to. I'm sure they are carefully chosen and not unattractive, finely crafted, and you want the chance to appreciate all of this while on days you are wearing a different piece. Of course for someone selling jewelry, displays are necessary, and not what I'm talking about. Everything needs to be out and look appealing, yet not smushed in a pile.

The article mentions that these are used inside the closet. Easy to reach and easy to return things to their home at the end of the day. The containers then don't have to look great, in my opinion, if they're being used to organize the inside of the closet. They just have to be neat and stay relatively simple and not get in the way of function there. So, nothing essentially offensive about a corkboard in its natural, store-bought state. Why make a project out of it unless you are putting it outside the closet?

I did something inside my closet door--not so much for display of the necklaces as for keeping them untangled. I used these clear small hooks with the 3m Command Adhesive on them...

http://compassandcoffeespoons.typepad.com/compassandcoffeespoons/2008/01/a-cheap-easy-or.html

I've used a deviled egg tray as an earring sorter for a couple years now....I thought it was original, lol. Mine is a white porcelain egg-shaped tray with about 14 egg compartments.

Now I just need something to hold my necklaces, as right now they're taking up a couple of the egg holes.

I love the deviled-egg tray idea! I have a beautiful, ancient (okay, older than me) porcelain one that I got from my grandmother's house that currently sits unused on a shelf in my dining room because there is no way I am letting it anywhere near any of the occasions wher I might have deviled eggs (i.e., places with other people who might break it). It will be moving within the next five minutes to my dresser.

Wow, what a bunch of great ideas. I like the ones where the neckclaces are hanging on display because they also become a room accessory. I love these hooks from Anthropologie.

http://www.anthropologie.com/anthro/catalog/category.jsp?popId=DECORATING&navAction=poppushpush&navCount=1&pushId=DECOR_HARDWARE&id=DECOR_HARDWARE_HOOKS

~Lorrie @ mydesignsecrets.com.

I love to take ideas from boutiques for jewelry storage- My favorite one is to take a vintage candy holder in a vibrant color, then fill it with stones or large glass beads, and use that to store hair clips, brooches and rings.

I bought tie/belt holders from Target and use those to hang necklaces. In my old place I mounted them inside my closet, now they hang on the wall as fake art until I get something else.