Lend Me Your Earrings

Apartment living can be challenging. How do you organize your home in a way that is both efficient and space-conscious?
 My conundrum this month has focused on how and where to store my earrings. They had previously been piled in a small box in a drawer; out of sight, out of mind. I would rarely wear them. Since we have a good amount of counter space in the bathroom, I wanted to find something to store them in that could be both functional and decorative.

I came across this cute box at Michael's, 30% off. It's made out of cardboard and has a magnetic closure. And it looks like a book! How cute and scholarly is that? The only problem was, how would I hang my earrings in it? Then I had an epiphany:

A wardrobe!

So I set off to find a small wooden dowel (29 cents), a few unpainted cardboard boxes (50 cents each) and a cute piece of scrapbook paper. Here's the end result, and I'm so happy with it!

I started by measuring the dowel to the width of the box (x3), then cut and painted them with a white acrylic paint. Once they had dried, I marked where to put them in, leaving extra room for the longer earrings. With a hot glue gun, I glued in the dowel bars. Then I painted the small cardboard boxes and glued some cute scrapbook paper to the front.

The boxes hold stud earrings, and the other holds rings! A great solution to my problem, for less than $10 (and less than an hour to make)!

Happy crafting!