DIY Jewelry Holders

I saw this idea & knew I had to try it.  For a while now I've been wanting to organize my mess of earrings & necklaces.  This was the perfect solution.  Plus I had everything in my garage!

You'll need a frame with the glass & backing removed, wire, staple gun, & hot glue.  This is how the back looks.  Super easy.  Decide where you want to put your wires & cut them accordingly.

Simple staple the wire to the back of the frame & curl the wire around the staple to prevent it from sliding.  I had to use heavy duty staples because my staple gun grew legs & walked away.  I think it had an accomplice who lives in my very own home & is married to me, but I'm not going to name any names.  Anywho, lightweight staple gun will work just fine.

I wanted some hooks for my bracelets so I made some by twisting & bending the wire.

These I hot glued onto the back to get them more flush, but you could staple them as well.  Just make sure they won't slide out of the staple.  You could put some of these on the bottom for necklaces as well & they would work great.

That's it, your done.  Hang it on the wall & organize away.  I love having my earrings laid out before me & not having to dig for the mate to the one i want to wear.  Plus this project reminded me of some jewelry I had forgotten about.  It looks pretty nifty in my room as well.

I also wanted to organize my mass amounts of necklaces.  I found these hook like things in our barn.  I'm not sure what they are for.  Maybe a towel rack?  All I knew was that I could screw them to the wall & hang necklaces off of them.  So I did just that.

They were white porcelain, so I spray painted them a color I liked.  I also sprayed the screws I was going to us.  I attached them to the wall & my work was done & my necklaces organized.  These also look very nice on the wall of my room.  A sort of practical decorating I guess.

So dig around for an old frame & found objects.  Your jewelry will be organized & displayed in no time!

The Office Light

When we moved into our house we turned the little loft space into my husbands office.  Since our house was built in the 1970's and apparently ceiling lights were out-lawed then (I'd love any architectural insight into this), our house mostly has sconces.

Such was the case in my husbands office.  not only was it a sconce, but it was a very dim & not very attractive sconce.  Two bad qualities for a light to posses.

For a long time now we've wanted to make a permanent light fixture out of an old latern.  We saw it in one of our rustic decor books.  We took our our bad office lighting as an opportunity to make the light fixture we'd always wanted to try.  So I sold that ol' sconce & three others that matched it our our bedroom on Craiglist & my hubby got to work creating his masterpiece.

It really was quite easy.  He took the bottom out of the lantern & installed a lamp socket.  Then just attached some wire to the socket & hooked er' all up.  (I'm keeping details kind of vague because I'm not a professional electrician.  So if you have no idea what I'm talking about then get someone who knows the business to help you.)

Then he built a base out of barn wood & we screwed it into the wall & it was done.  I love how it looks & how we've taken something forgotten about in our bunkhouse & revived it into a light we use everyday.  It looks so cool at night shining through the old sixteen pain window we reclaimed.  It gives our house personality & cost way less than a new light fixture.  Kuddos to my hubby for getting this done.