Eye Spy with My Little Eye....: jewelry

11 August 2010

Just hangin around....

So I've had 2 problems: First, I buy way to much fun "ghetto" jewelry, be it rings, earrings, necklaces, etc. I have so many accessories that you can find them in my car, purse, dining table, desk, night stand, you name it! The second problem is I can NEVER find anything!! So today, I took on ORGANIZATION of my jewels!! I used a few antiques I had laying around the house and then constructed a new item on a minimum budget!

This red compote is vintage and my wonderful mother gave it to me one Christmas ago! It is my new bracelet holder!

{now I just have to locate them all!}

This beautiful 1930's green glass bowl was given to me as a wedding gift from a dear friend who's parents own a lot of antique glass. I will cherish it forever. It is the new right hand ring holder!

And below is my latest project, my new earring holder! I saw this around Christmas on Anthropologie for like $75 and thought how easy it would be to create! I went to JoAnn's and they had all of their frames %50 percent off, so I got the frame for $12.50. The lace wasn't my favorite, but it was $7.99 yard and I bought 1/2 a yard for my 24" wide frame. I really wanted a beautiful Chantilly lace, but since I am only hanging earrings on it, I relinquished that thought. {plus I couldn't find any} I doubled the lace over, so it would be thicker, and used my staple gun {a must have} and stretched the lace as tight as possible. Voila! What do you think? I'm going to hang it, but for now here it is: $16.50 TOTAL!!! :)

{since my earrings are taken off and placed here and there, the bottom row represents earrings still searching for their mate. We aren't giving up hope that he/she will appear in some purse, bag, etc.!}

Now that the earrings, rings and bracelets are taken care of, it's time to take on my largest vice: necklaces. They are in drawers and on plates on my shelves, in purses {surprise} and bags. I am still working on some kind of wood board, covered in my wedding wallpaper by Cole and Son, framed in a pop yellow or green color trim, with multiple knobs in various styles to hang the necklaces on. We will see. This is a project for the weekend. However, my 2 year anniversary is on Monday and the hubs and I are sneaking off to Asheville for a quick get a way!! I've never been to Biltmore and I think we are going wine tasting too! There has to be surprises ya know! :) I'll post pictures from the trip next time!

22 July 2010

Hootie Hootie Hootie Hoo!

You've probably noticed the owl has been making a HUGE comeback the past few years! You see him in everything: wall decals, fabrics, baby rooms, and my favorite, jewlery. The owl represents different ideas in many cultures and lores. In Greek, the owl represents widsom and knowledge. It was the symbol for Athena, the goddess of wisdom. In other cultures, it means bad things like death but we're just going to stick with the Greeks! I have, like many, fallen in love with the owl and have become mildly obsessed! I hope you enjoy some of the images below. The one to the left is from blik, which is one of the coolest pages for decal art. This series with the owls is from artist amy ruppel. They come in multiple colors and are a cute way to jazz up a plain wall. I also love using wall decals because they aren't permanent and you don't have to pay tons of money for a muralist to paint something you may only like a few years. The very last one is my favorite! Its been "retired" but I hope they bring it back for when I need to decorate a nursery one day! :) If not, I can recreate one and send it to blik and they can make it for me :) Now time for this night owl to head to bed!