Remember this necklace holder? Well, after getting my necklaces organized, I felt like I needed a place for my earrings. There are many great ideas all over Pinterest (i.e.- this cute and well done one). I liked using vintage printer drawers to store those tiny accessories...but who has the money for a printer drawer?
So I took off to search my trusty thrift store and found the next best thing; remember the trinket holders from the 80s and 90s that hung on walls and collected dust on all your little knick-knacks? you know, with tiny animals and stuff from trips? Yeah, those.
Here's what I like about them: they already have devices on the back making them ready to hang on a wall, they are a little smaller than your average printer drawer and they are more likely to be in a person's budget. I got my first one for $1. But after finishing one, I realized that I needed another to hold all my earrings; so I found the other one at a garage sale for a quarter!
The expense is in the eye-hooks (about $7 for all three packs that I bought), the paper to allow it to match my necklace organizer (still was only about $1), and the paint (except I used leftover spray paint from other projects - so that was really no cost. Making both earring organizers a little under $10!
So, here's what I did:
1. Found the trinket holder. (I actually found them about a year apart so it turned out that one is slightly smaller than the other and they are a slightly different color of white - but you can't tell too much when they're hanging on my wall.)
2. Spray painted the holder. I also spray painted the eye hooks but I must have forgotten to take a picture of them - whoops! They do great with primer and then to match my necklace holder and my beachy theme, I painted them oil-rubbed bronze and plain white.
3. Next I matched a drill bit to the size of the screw part of the eye-hook and drilled really slowly (so the bit wouldn't go through to the other side since the wood was only 1/4 in thick)
4. Then, Modge Podge was used to place craft paper into each section desired. (no picture here either - sorry)
5. Let it dry, screw the eye-hooks into place and with the wall hanging thingys that are already there, hang on the wall.
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