No I’m not talking about the movie, I’m talking about my jewelry!!!

I went to get dressed up to go to a wedding the other day and I was appalled at how tangled my jewelry was!  (ok, time to fess up… I probably wouldn’t have even noticed, but a friend was over, and SHE was appalled… which of course made me open my eyes and see how bad it had really gotten…  gotta love a good friend like that!)

But what to do?  My necklaces and bracelets seem to spend their spare time playing twister in the drawer… I couldn’t get them this knotted if I tried!…

(did anyone else catch the cord to my headphones somehow tangled in the mix?)

oh yeah, back to fixing the problem…   I started by scanning Pinterest for ideas.   (love that site!)….  but didnt really find anything that fit my needs…  I’m in an apartment… and I dont have a walk in closet…  so I dont want to cover my wall with hooks…

But I do have 3 of these frames that I found at a garage sale a few months ago…

And so the project began…  I started by taking the existing (faded and worn) artwork out of the frames.  Then I found some cork contact paper that I had left over from another project… I traced the backboard onto the contact paper, cut it out and adhered it to the backboard.

At the end of this project I realized that this cork contact paper was not actually thick enough to use a real push pin on…

So I purchased some squares of thicker cork (I found it at my local Staples) and placed those inside the frames.

Of course, during all of this I decided that if I was going to make these, then they should be fun….   Break out the spray paint!!!

(the 3rd one is blue!  I just forgot to get a picture… )

A few pushpins later and my necklaces and bracelets can be easily organized.

How do you keep your jewelry from becoming a tangled mess?