Tuesday, August 3, 2010

a place to put jewelry

If you ever talk to my mom, she'll tell you I'm a pack-rat. If you ask me, I'll just say it's organized chaos. It may be a mess, but I know exactly where everything is. Which is why, when I was younger, I would get so mad when my mom would come and clean my room. She was trying to do me a favor (and probably one for herself because she's not a big fan of clutter!), but after she was done I would go back an put everything right back where it belonged (much to her chagrin). Well, mom, I'm working on it. I doubt I'll ever be as organized as you...but I did finally get my jewelry organized. Here's what I did (and I apologize for not having step-by-step pictures, but it's pretty straightforward):

1. Grab a piece of foam core (two pieces of cardboard with foam in the middle)
2. Cut it in half (or to whatever size you want it to be)
3. Grab some fabric that is bigger than your board
4. Take a hot glue gun and drizzle a little over the front of your board and then smooth down the fabric
5. Flip it over and glue the fabric to the back of the board (mine looks pretty ugly, but no one will see it!)
6. Cut some ribbon for hanging and hot glue that down. You can reinforce it with a little duck tape if you want
7. Hang it on the wall and add pearl-headed pins (for cuteness) at random. Hang the necklaces from the bottom pins and the earrings from higher up.
8. Oula! You've done it! :)