Jewelry Storage Ideas...around the home

I love this image I saw on the Art Bead Scene blog. That is EXACTLY what my house looks like. Okay, well, I do have a frame with necklaces pinned up in it. Okay, the frame is just a cork bulletin board (not pretty picture frames with nice cloth)  and it's 3x4 feet wide (not dainty and artfully arranged)  and it has at least 150 necklaces on it (not just a few, elegantly edited) but other than that it is the EXACT same...

I do get a lot of questions about how I store all my jewelry. My other blog, 365necklaces means I can't display them in this artful way as I have to sort them into Worn and Pending.* I love the idea of putting jewelry out there where you can see it as the art it is.

Go read the post here on the Art Bead Scene for some other good storage ideas that put the jewelry on display.

*I am wearing a different necklace every day for a year. I post a daily picture. At least, I take a daily picture, I post them when I get around to it.

My own 365 project...

Are you aware of all the 365 blogs and tumblr and flickr groups out there? The idea behind them is to document something for 365 days (a whole year.) These have been around for a while. There are cooking 365s and snapshot 365s and I even saw one once about socks. Often, you will see a 365 started and then abandoned mid-way through the year. I can understand that. Regular blogging is hard work.

We were discussing 365s at work and I remarked that the only thing I could do for 365 days was to wear a different necklace. Every day. I wasn't kidding. After 17 years of making jewelry for a living (in one way or another) I am not proud to admit that I have a crazy amount of necklaces. They are a bulky, noisy, sparkly portfolio of my work. I usually end up wearing the same few for a while and then replacing them with new favorites. Committing to wearing, and photoing, a different one every day for a year would be a good way to make me wear them and a good opportunity for me to remember my design work.

So, I'm doing it. You can see my necklaces at 365necklaces.com.There's a new one, every day.