Ways to organize long necklaces...?

Question

I am a jewelry fanatic and am looking for a creative, inexpensive way to store all my jewelry. I have lots of longer necklaces (the kind you can double, triple, or knot), lots of regular necklaces, chunky bracelets, and earrings (hoops and fishhook styles). I was considering buying an armoire to store it all, but just can't justify the expense right now. Besides, I don't need all the ring storage as I really don't have many rings. I do, however, need to organize all my items so I will remember what I have and wear them all more often. I enjoy doing simple craft projects that don't require lots of power tools. It can be one unit, or a combination of things. They can be wall mounted (not too complicated) or stored on top of the dresser. Thanks in advance for the help and ideas!

Answer 1

I place mine in small boxes and lay them carefully.  I like laura's acvice to hang them in the closet on small nails too.  some I don't wear every day.  You just want to avoid snags and tangles.

Answer 2

I bought a package of six of those hooks you can stick to the wall and hung them up in a row in my dorm room.  I put all of my big necklaces on it and it actually made a pretty decoration that people always admired when they came over.  

For my dangly earrings, I took this cool margarita glass and put some pretty colorful stones in it.  Then I put all of the earrings on the side of the glass, hanging on it by the metal part that you stick through your ear.

Answer 3

I am nuts for costume too.

I like making funky statues/creature art displays out of everything. While some of it is used for my crafts so I need to see it too to help keep me inspired to make stuff.  A nice arrangement of different height, colored glass bottles  arranged in a group on the dresser to keep bracelets stacked on with or without a little mask hung at the top part of the bottle looks nice for easy access to the ones you like or use the most while the rest could be stacked in similar sized tubular shaped glass vases or jars for the rest of your body candy.

I also like how they fit nicely in those fancy wine gift boxes that come in beautiful prints and was thinking if you collect like me, Those decorative drapery rods can be hooked up over your dresser mirror to hold a ton of bangles and can be opened from the center to get at what you need while chains or even scarves hung from the sides making the mirror look like a little curtained stage.  Kinda like building your own jeweled dressing table using your own accessories which are removable and with a large shelf across the top of it for the wigs and hats or whatever and the rod hanging on the wall beneath it between the mirror and the shelf.  

And all along the 3 edges of that shelf I have little hooks and nails where glass ornament is mixed with the long earrings making it look like exotic, bejeweled fringe of a most unusual kind and even lil xmas lites along the same nails cuz it makes for quite an amazing little light show at night... all that colored glass and bead work with the lil lites shining thru behind it and reflected in the mirror. Sorry haha.  I call it The Bearded Lady's Dressing Table.

If you have an old Iron Board that is the best though. I have an Egyptian mask over mine right now but if you paint or cover it in velvet, well the holes are already there to hang the earrings while the feet of the iron board when folded closed that come out about the neck/shoulder area of the figure can be used for hanging both chain and scarf making it look like she be wearing Kimono with her arms spread out with jeweled dress (the earrings hanging from the holes) seen between the two long sleeves (the scarves and chains on either side).  And if you don't have a nice mask, top it off with a funky hat as if her head be bowed or sleeping.

Sounds crazy but I like crazy and once sold a lot of earrings when displayed on the ironing board like that cuz the whole thing looks like ... well a bejeweled Mummy's Treasure Chest Or...

Just hang a long and narrow velvet covered wooden shelf board with a bunch of hooks and nails in it and a little mirror mounted on the top part and the velvet fabric cut and left hanging a little longer than the bottom part of the board for those other earrings that need to be pierced thru the fabric and then clipped closed from behind.  If you want a more finished edge, glue gun some matching fringe to the bottom seam.

Answer 4

They sell racks with hooks on them and they work very well. They look like a tie rack but with regular coat hooks and are inexpensive. Try a place like Target or Bed Bath and Beyond.

Answer 5

My mother hangs her long necklaces from small nails inside her closet.