Pinterest, that is.  I’m trying to either make something from Pinterest once a week, or make something to post ON Pinterest, and so far into week 3 so good, I’m quite impressed with my crafting thus far.  Of course, I will have the weekend where all I want to do is sit in the recliner and play Fable 2 and not do a dang thing, but like I said, so far so good.

This weekend was a double whammy on the project front, but my favorite one was this:

That is a smancy jewelry holder now hanging in my bathroom, and I love it.  Here’s how I made it:

Supplies you need
Frame
Metal screen (I used tin snips to cut it, but I’m guessing just regular scissors would have worked too)
Staple Gun
Hooks to hang necklaces with
Hammer, nail, etc. (something to use to hang the frame on the wall)

First, buy a frame that you love, then throw away the back and the glass.  In this case, this was in the framing section at Hobby Lobby (50% off!) and didn’t have any of that with it.  I bought the screen at Lowe’s, it’s actual screen door stuff, they have metal or fiberglass, get the metal stuff.  Now, I have like a thousand feet of it leftover because that was the smallest roll I could find (it was less than $8), maybe you have a local hardware store that sells it as much or as little as you need it and you can get less of it?  Also, the size of this frame is 11″ x 14″, and I filled it up pretty quick, and I don’t feel like I have that much jewelry.  So, keep that in mind when you purchase one, and gauge how big of a frame you would need thinking how much jewelry you have.  If you are only hanging earrings though, you don’t need near as much space.

As you know, on every frame there is kind of a lip where the picture sits in the frame.  You are going to want to cut the mesh screen to fit inside that and staple it to that lip, not to the actual back of the frame.  Doing this allows space between the wall and the stuff you have hanging on the screen, making it lay flat against the wall and easier to get your earrings on and off of it.

And that’s really all there is to it when it comes to “constructing” this, if you can even call it constructing, it’s more so cutting and stapling.  Then, you get to untangle all of your jewelry and hang it onto your new fabulous jewelry organizer.  Here is what I got to untangle (that little round basket has been my ”jewelry box” for years now, as you can see, didn’t work out so well:

To hang the necklaces and earrings that didn’t have studs or hooks that worked on the mesh I used these little bad boys, the zig zag design on them keeps them from falling out of the mesh once you wiggle them in, found them in the hardware section at Lowe’s for $0.58 cents a 4 pack:

And that’s it folks, you’re done and get to go into your bathroom and oooh and ahhh over it every time you see it, or at least that’s what I’ve been doing anyway.

Since hindsight is 20/20, here are things I’d have done differently or suggestions to make this easier/more super awesome:

1. I’d have taken those “hair pin clips” and pulled them so they were wider, probably using needle nose pliers to bend them a little, also, could have probably gone up a size on them as well, they are just a little bit small.
2. I’d have pulled the mesh way tighter, it’s definitely in there, but if it were more taut it would look nicer and be easier to get things in and out of it.
3. Now, not possible for my situation and where it is hung, but if you want to make this thing way super awesome you could put hinges on one end of it, and hang it that way, so it swings like a door, making it way easy to get your jewelry on and off it, that would be, as I like to say, way super awesome.

There you have it, merry organizing everyone.   :)