Eliza has a neat trick for detangling and displaying her jewelry – she turned a simple cork bulletin board into a Jewelry board and a deviled egg server into a jewelry tray...
We love both these ideas (we have posted on jewelry boards before). Both E-How and Express Night Out have some easy to follow instructions for creating a board of your own (with just a bit more flair) and we have seen many lovely deviled egg trays in antique shops.
With the tray on a closet shelf and the board installed on the door, she can easily accessorize her outfits in minutes.
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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¤t=jewelry.jpg
http://s129.photobucket.com/albums/p225/jenniemead/?action=view¤t=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 agree with dmh, the bare cork board is pretty ugly.
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 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
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.
deviled egg container idea is great!