DIY Earring Organizer

Happy Monday! I took the week off and am hoping to get a ton of half finished projects around the house done! First on my list was an organizer for my jewelry. I have everything just thrown in random places - jewelry box, bathroom medicine cabinet, gym bag, etc.  I found this tutorial on an earring organizer that I thought would work perfect with a frame I'd found at a yard sale years ago. 

photo from kevinandamanda.com

It was a little hard to find picture wire hanger, but after a few stops, I found it in the hardware section at Walmart. Time to say goodbye to this guy in picture frame, he provided lots of laughs over the past few years!

One band-aid and 30 minutes later, this to-do was complete! 

It was a lot of fun to go through my jewelry and find long lost items I forgot I had. I'm hoping to make a necklace organizer too!

Do you have any fun projects planned for the holiday week?

His bling

When Steele and I first started looking for rings for him, he really wanted a dark (preferably black) tungsten ring with some bling in it. He found this ring that he really loved, but when we tried contacting the vendor they never returned our messages.

Crappy picture of it since now it's apparently sold out:
Bigger picture of it, but with the wrong color of diamonds:
Anyway, we went around to many local jewelers to see if they could find this ring or something like it, or even attempt to make it. After many rejections, Steele was pretty bummed and gave up on looking. He finally came around a few months later and we decided to stop in a jewelery store just to have a peek. As luck would have it, they had a new style in that he really liked, so he tried it on and 15 minutes later we were walking out of the store with this ring:

Sorry, don't know where I found this one!

And my non-pro version of it after being shinied up this weekend! So excited he'll be wearing it in a few short weeks!