Jewelry Ideas - DIY Jewelry Organizer

When it comes to good jewelry ideas for the lover of all kinds of jewelry nothing really beats being able to come up with your own jewelry organizer. If you are looking around the bedroom and see necklaces draped around doorknobs, earrings tossed across the closest dresser and rings left sitting wherever you took them off, you are a great candidate for a quick and easy DIY jewelry organizer project. Best of all, it doesn't have to be complicated or hard to accomplish. You just need a couple of good ideas. Lucky for you we have plenty of those. Once you look our ideas listed here you will soon find yourself with a ton of great fanciful storage concepts for jewelry ideas of your own that suit your needs to a "T". Here are a few ideas to get you started:

Jewelry Ideas for Small Collections

If you don't have dozens of necklaces and around fifty pairs of earrings you probably only need a simple concept for your DIY jewelry organizer. This will make it so much easier to find good organizer jewelry ideas because you don't need to create a whole section in your room for your bling. Here are some simple ideas to steal from:

Tree Branches

These can look like art if you use them right. Take a walk in your neighborhood or if you have a tree in your backyard consider taking a small branch from it. If you live in an area that recently had a heck of a windstorm, walking around and looking for interesting branches to use means you help clean-up and get some great storage jewelry ideas to boot! Simple branches hung from a ribbon are great for necklaces and I have used mesquite branches mounted on a board for earrings in the past.

Old Picture Frames

Take the back off of an old picture frame and instead staple some netting or lace to the back of the frame. This is a great simple jewelry idea for holding earrings that have the hooks instead of the posts on them. You can arrange by color or shape to make a very pretty display on your wall. Another idea is to mount the back of an old picture frame with corks from wine bottles. You might have to cut a few to make them fit and it works best with older frames that are pretty deep. Once you have them all squeezed in you can add steel dressmaker pins to hold your jewelry on the cork board you just created.

Covered Cork Boards

You can also pick up some cheap old cork boards at a supply store and cover them to look pretty. I have used everything from old fabric to wallpaper left over from a project to some of that pretty handmade paper you see in the stationery stores these days. Paint the frame to match the paper and then add dressmaker pins to hold the jewelry pieces. This is particularly nice if you have sets of necklaces and earrings you want to cluster, such as you see with our collections like Jasmine or Ktan-Tan.

Cake Stand Organizer

If you love vintage dishes this is an easy one. There are many beautiful cake stands from bygone eras that make beautiful trays for bracelets or pins, or any larger pieces that don't hang well. It can be fun to go shopping for these as your local thrift store is a good source and really inexpensive! You might want to do more than one, if you find yourself unable to choose.

Jewelry Ideas for Big Collections

Some of us just can't stop collecting jewelry. You know who you are if this sounds familiar. For those with dozens of necklaces and over a hundred pairs of earrings (guilty as charged) then the hunt for great jewelry ideas for storage gets serious. This is where you might want to cheat and go to your nearest hobby supply store for some organizer ideas.

Fishing Tackle Boxes

There are two roads you can go down with this one. You can begin with the little plastic boxes that have dividers in them that you can find in hardware stores. These are actually great for oddball earrings you can't hang and because you can adjust the size of the compartments you can have various sizes in one box. Then you can stack up the boxes organizing them by color.

The other way is to use the true fishing tackle boxes that come in the metal boxes and fold open, accordion-style. These are wonderful for bigger collections and you can glue in felt at the bottom to make them look nicer. I have taken contact paper to the outside to give them the less rustic look. You would be surprised how much jewelry one of these bigger tackle boxes can hold!

Shoe Box Organizer for Bracelets

I love bracelets but they can be so hard to store. They are big and clunky. If you don't see the pattern you can't always pick them out to wear. But of all the inexpensive bracelet storage jewelry ideas I have seen, this is the easiest and certainly the fastest to put together. You probably have a couple of shoe boxes lying around, who doesn't? Grab one, add a few notches and a couple of dowels and voila! A great way to store your bracelets, make them very visible and if you decorate the box it can sit right there on your dresser.

Jewelry Ideas for Great Jewelry

Of course, the inspiration for all of this is that we have been designing up a storm lately here at Inbal and so we want to be sure you have plenty of room for all the great looking new pieces that will be coming your way soon. As we get to the end of another great year we want to remind you that prices are going up next year so you just might want to grab a few more pieces from your favorite collection today. Check our catalog for new ideas and grab a few of your old favorites as gifts today.

What's your great idea for a DIY Jewelry Organizer?