Necklace Hanger

A couple of weeks ago, as I was cleaning out my jewelry drawers, I decided that I needed a new system for organizing my necklaces. First off, I don't wear a necklace very often at this point in my life because several of my favorites have been broken by little hands yanking them off my neck while said little one was perched on my hip. They have also been just a jumbled mess in my drawer and I often am rushing out the door! The last thing I have time to stop and do is dig through a tangled wad of necklaces to find the one that goes with whatever outfit I have on. 

In my love affair with Pinterest, I have come across several different hanging necklace organizers that I liked and thought would be fairly easy to make my own. One that I liked was made using a bulletin board. I actually have 3 bulletin boards that I am planning to use for other projects for the kids. Another was a simple piece of wood with screws to hang necklaces on. I am going to use this concept to hang curtains in my bathroom - some day!  The one I liked best used 2 pieces of wood trim and a small piece of wood and upholstery tacks. This is the one I wanted to go with because it is more decorative and eye pleasing. 

Yesterday, my mom, step-dad, Harper and I set out to gather the materials for our necklace hanging project. I kid them that they will stop coming to visit because I always have a list of projects for them, but I secretly think they enjoy it. I am sure they will tell me if they feel differently! We spent what felt like forever on the trim aisle at Home Depot searching for the right pieces that would go together. We ended up buying 2 - 24" pieces of trim, that we cut ourselves right there in the store. We are all about easy so we picked a piece of trim for our top piece that was fairly thick and wouldn't require the extra piece of wood underneath to give it enough height to hang necklaces. 

Here my little worker bees are attaching the two pieces of trim together 

with a little bit of liquid nails and 2 tiny finishing nails.

 

My worker bees get a little crazy!

 I spray painted my board with some spray paint that I already had here at the house. Then this morning, after it was all dry, I nailed in these silver upholstery tacks about 1" apart, staggered from top to bottom. They are far from perfectly straight across and I am actually one short on the top row, but no one is going to sit and stare at this thing and be bothered by that fact, I hope! You can see in the bottom picture the shapes of the 2 pieces of trim we used. You can also see that I attached this to the wall with 3m Command Strips! I love these things. They are so much more forgiving than a nail and the multiple nail holes it usually takes me to get things straight!

  

Finally, the TADA moment! All necklaces hung! 

In plain view, untangled! I love it! Imperfections and all!!

Notice there is a paint swatch painted under the necklaces? - - 

another project hanging in the balance

Onto the next project - - finishing Jenna Beth's room! Reveal to come shortly!

Here are links to the projects that inspired this one:
Necklace organizer bulletin board
Necklace/Jewelry organizer

Completed Projects #1

I've been working on various DIY projects on this house since we moved here in January. I have some pretty big reveals, but it'll take me a little while to get those pictures and posts organized and posted. I'm terrible about taking before pictures, so I'm going to have to go searching for some before pictures of my laundry room before I post the awesome, still needing a little wall decor after pictures.

Yesterday I finished refinishing a new to us dresser for F2's bedroom. The dresser she had began its journey with F6, but was highly abused by F4 and F2 so there were 2 drawers that would no longer shut all the way. It had to go. I didn't want to pay a ton of money for something because I know it will continue to be abused. Thankfully, our community hosted its community wide yard sale earlier this month. I took the little tornadoes to get donuts and then we drove around window shopping from the car until I spotted the perfect dresser, 1 street away from our house, in our neighborhood.

I wish I had a before picture of this thing. It had been painted white and had 80's mauve bows stenciled between the knobs on the drawers. The lady I bought it from acted like it was a true heirloom and thought it was so pretty. I hated to inform her that those bows would be gone in a matter of days!

Here's the finished product. I'm really happy with how it turned out. I'm sure I could improve my technique and skill, but considering I've worked on this in my garage in 100+ degree heat for the past couple of weeks, I reached the point that I was going to take what I could get and go from there. It added a good pop of color in F2's otherwise bland room. I love all the drawers because there's plenty of space for all those little odds and ends little girls have in their wardrobes.

 

Another project I've been working on is transforming my laundry room into a nice laundry room/mud room. It's actually one of my favorite rooms in the house. Pictures of the room itself will come later! The most recent addition to this room is the name tags I put  on these shoe boxes to designate whose shoes go where! The boys are fairly good about taking their shoes off when they come in, but F2 struggles. I love how these came out! They were super easy to do once I found a luggage tag template on Microsoft's Online Gallery. My house will be organized efficiently if it kills me!

Stay tuned for more DIY Project posts! I've got lots to catch up on and many projects in the works in the crevices of my mind!