Ideas for organizing your jewelry

Recently I blogged about organizing my jewelry. I was inspired by this image to overhaul my jewelry drawer:

I only WISH I had this much beautiful turquoise and coral jewelry!

Then I started thinking. . . how do other people organize their jewelry? In a fancy jewelry box? On the wall with hooks? On top of a dresser? A jewelry tree? In your closet? I once had a walk-in closet in an old apartment and I used hooks to hang all of my necklaces and bracelets. It was wonderful being able to see everything I own all at once and it made it easier deciding what to put on (or take off) in the morning!

 

  

  

Go to Centsational Girl for the how to on creating your own jewelry tree!

  

I LOVE the idea of using tea cups and saucers to keep your earrings organized! I might have to incorporate this into my jewelry drawer!

  

 

Design Sponge is currently running a series showcasing creative ways to organize and store jewelry. 

 

 

How do you keep all of your jewelry, accessories and baubles organized?

Baby Steps

January should just be dubbed "International Organizing Month" in my opinion. It's the time of year when you look around and say to yourself, "how did I let this get so out of control?!" and start making plans for the new year to get organized. I'm the type of person who loves a neat, clean, picked up home. I can't go to bed at night if all the chairs at the table aren't pushed in, pillows on sofa aren't fluffed or dishes are still in the sink. BUT, open up any one of my drawers or closets, and well, that's another story!

I recently tackled one of the 10,956 projects I have on my todo list this year (as far as home improvement, organizing and decorating go) and thought I would share with you a little 'before and after'. Here is my jewelry drawer before I took the plunge and decided to organize it;

And here it is, after!

 

 

Now. . . on to the linen closet, desk, pantry, laundry cabinet, media shelves. . .