Pretty ideas for storing jewelry & belts
I was shopping at a small boutique recently and noticed how pretty they displayed their jewelry and belts. They used different style bowls and tiered containers making it look so pretty, I wanted to buy everything. I thought it was such a good idea, I came home and used the same concept for my own jewelry and belts.
The first thing I got was this hanging thing at Homegoods, {don’t know what it is called} I thought it would be a great way to hang my necklaces
And it was. Now they don’t get tangled and I can easily see what I have.
Then I found some pretty bowls in different sizes. One for my watches {the thing I wear the most as you can see by how many I have}
and one for my bracelets
Then just for the fun of it, I added an Anthropologie bowl to my tray of lotions to hold a few nail polishes
For my belts, I picked up two of the these tiered stands at Homegoods. It takes seconds to roll the belts and lay them into the tray.
I think the tiered tray for my belts is my favorite. By having them in view like this, I can quickly choose which belt I want.
Here is one from Sav-on Crafts that looks similar to what I used
Great space saving closet tips
I have been slowly organizing my closet. It all started with Pinterest and people pinning glamourous closets like these
To die for pink pendants light fixtures right?
The tufted seats…gonna do this for sure!
Oh the shoe space is to die for and that chandelier? Be still my heart
Seeing all these Pinterest images made me realize three things:
1. I have a dream closet but didn’t realize it’s potential until Pinterest
2 I need to organize my stuff much more efficiently to make it look pretty {like how they laid out the shoes in the last picture}
3 It was time to glam up my closet
I started my makeover back in March when I wallpapered my closet in this large damask print
But that is as far as I got. Until recently, when I saw this light fixture at a local store, Girard Avenue Collections
It was the perfect glam piece I needed for my closet, so I bought it. Unfortunately it is still sitting in the box in the closet and not hanging from the ceiling. My electrian is TOO busy right now so I have to wait, ugh!
So in the mean time I started organizing and editing my clothes, shoes, purses and jewelry. I needed to have more organization and neatness in my closet if I want to achieve that glamourous dreamy closet. No more stacking my shoes hap-hazardly and mixed matched hangers.
Giving an old crate some style
I had bought an old crate at an estate sale for $15. I had no idea what I was going to do with it, but I loved the look of it. In the back of my mind I was thinking of all the creative ways people have used these type of crates
(via pinterest)
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The other day when I was over at my daughter Shannon’s house, I was doing some tiding up for her while she was nursing the baby. I realized there was no where for me to put all the blankets and other miscellaneous baby stuff that comes with having a newborn. She needed a big basket or bin in her living room to house all the stuff. That’s when I remembered the crate I had, it was the perfect size for what she needed. I decided to spruce it up before I gave it to her.
First thing I did was to lightly sand the outside of the box. Being careful not to sand off the cool writing on it. Then I wiped some linseed oil over the crate to bring out the grain of the wood.
I had some left over scraps that spoke to me. {anyone else feel that way about fabric or am I just weird?} I loved the texture and color of the fabric against the crate. I was bent on figuring out how to use what little I had to make a liner for the crate.
