Jewellery Organiser
I don’t know about you, but I’m always having to sort through tangled necklaces to find what jewellery I want to wear. Well this DIY solves that problem. This one is a bit more hands on -involving wood, paint and a drill. But don’t let that put you off, because it is definitely worth the effort. It is movable, I decided to hang mine inside my wardrobe door. The instructions are listed below, so have fun!
Materials:
-Decorative wood panel from Bunnings. (But if you can’t find this unique item - any piece of craft wood that is big enough to hold your jewellery collection will do).
-Screw in hooks
-Acrylic paint (white and your choice of colour)
-Paintbrush
-Roller (optional, but I found it a lot easier)
-Cup of water
-Drill (just to get a small hole started for the screw in hooks)
-Pencil
-Ruler
Instructions:
1. Paint your wood. I decided to paint the wood white to start with, so the colour I chose to paint on top of the white would be vivid on the wood. Paint (with a paintbrush or roller) on all the surfaces you will be able to see when you hang it. Make sure you keep dipping your paintbrush in water as you apply the white paint. Let it dry.
2. Once the white paint has dried, decide which colour you will use. I decided to use fuchsia, and do an ombre effect (light to dark). Before you begin, if your wood panel has edges, work out which colour or shade of colour you want to paint the edges. Make sure when your making that colour, apply it to the edges. You can paint your wood however you like, so if you don't want to do ombre, then move onto step 3. First I made lots and lots of fuchsia and quickly applied it using my roller to the top third of my wood. Next I added some more white to my palette and mixed it in. I then applied that to the second third of the wood. To get the two shades to melt into each other, thus creating the ombre effect, I used my paintbrush and mixed where the two colours met. Then I added some more white to my palette. I applied it to the last third of the wood, and mixed where those two colours met with my paintbrush. Since I had quite a bit of paint left of the lightest shade of fuchsia, I decided to paint my edges with that colour. Once you have finished painting, let it dry.
3. While the paint is drying, lay out all the jewellery you own and divide it into categories (eg. Bracelets, necklaces, etc) count them all and see how much you have. This will help give you a rough idea of how many hooks you need.
My sorted jewellery collection
4. Once the paint has dried, using your pencil and ruler, make a little dot where each hook will go. Work out where your bracelets and necklaces will go, so you can make sure you leave aenough space for your necklaces to hang.
5. Now using your drill, drill a small hole on each pencil mark.
6. Then screw in the hooks into the holes. I found that screwing each hook in about 3 quarters of the way by hand, then using pliers to finish it off really helped.
7. Now place your jewellery on the hooks and hang your jewellery organiser wherever you want!
I hope you are inspired to make and use this DIY and organisation idea and have fun while you 'kreate' it. I know I definitely did! Thanks for reading and remember to keep checking for more inspiration;)
Kate xox
