Picture Frame Jewelry Organizer
Keep your necklaces, bracelets, rings, and other items tidy with this jewelry organizer made using a picture frame.
Equipment:
- Craft paint & brushes for unfinished wood pieces
- Wire snippers or heavy scissors to cut chicken wire
- Saw - if cutting the dowel
- Wood glue
Materials:
- Picture Frame (I used 12"x12" size)
- Piece of chicken wire to fit inside frame
- Cup hooks - 7/8" size (I used 13 cup hooks)
- Piece of flat wood (12" x 1-1/2" x 1/4")
- Wood dowel (1/4" size)
- Fabric to fit inside the frame
- Felt pieces for back of frame
Instructions:
- If you're using an unfinished frame and/or any other unfinished wood pieces, begin by painting them in the color of your choice. I used white and used two coats of paint.
- Cut the chicken wire using a wire snippers or heavy scissors so it fits in the opening of the frame. You may want to use the cardboard backing piece that came with the frame as a guide. It may also need to be bent a little bit to flatten it.
- Use the fabric to cover the cardboard backing that comes with your frame and fits in the opening. Lay the piece of cardboard on your fabric and cut a piece that is about 1/2" larger all the way around. Fold and glue down the extra 1/2" allowance all around the edges of the cardboard piece, trimming any excess on the corners as needed. Be sure the right side of your fabric is facing out.
- Lay the chicken wire piece in the frame, and then lay your fabric covered cardboard piece behind it. The right side of your fabric should be showing through the chicken wire. Glue or tack anything down in place as needed.
- Add felt to cover the back, cutting and piecing it as needed, and then gluing it down in place.
- Screw the cup hooks into the frame. I placed three along each side and seven on the bottom side of the frame. It's helpful to take measurements first and make small pencil marks where you want the hooks to be to come up with an arrangement where they are evenly spaced.
- Glue on the small piece of wood near the bottom of the frame to use as a shelf. I used wood glue for this step.
- Saw or cut the dowel down to size if needed to fit the width of the frame you are using. The bottom cup hooks on each side are intended for holding the dowel once the organizer is hanging on the wall.
- Using the jewelry organizer: Once the organizer is hanging on the wall, the hooks on the bottom and sides work great for necklaces, the chicken wire makes a good place to hang large earrings, the dowel is handy for bracelets, watches, or hairbands, and the shelf makes a quick place to set rings or other smaller jewelry pieces.