DIY earring holder

Way down in the depths of my basement, buried under wood scraps and glass, I found a huge round frame that I had picked up at a thrift store years ago.  It once housed a big heavy mirror, but after being buried for many years, the mirror cracked, but I still loved the frame....especially the color. Chipped a bit, but a wonderful salmon pink & really massive.

I am in the process of re-doing our spare room....for the 14th time. One thing I needed to do was to create more drawer space.  See 99% of the time, I use this room as my dressing room.  Our old Cape Cod, as darling as it is, has the smallest closets ever, so there was no way Nate and I could share the one in our bedroom.  So- in an effort to create a little more drawer space, I needed a better place for all my jewelry, especially the earrings.

I pretty much wear drop/dangle earrings exclusively, so when I thought of this idea I was thrilled.  Besides, I had been using the empty frame as wall art previously so this idea just made it more multitasking.

At my local hardware store I picked up a small roll of hardware cloth for about $5. (check the fencing section) Smaller holes than chicken wire, but larger than door screen fencing.

After cutting it to size, I stapled it to the inside of the frame

 trimmed the edges, added the dangleys and done....instant storage art.

Most of these earrings are works of art in themselves, so banishing them to the drawer just didn't seem right.

You could do this with most any frame.  Pick a fun color, staple in the wire and hang.  TIP :  make sure you give yourself a little bit of room to get the earrings on and off so do not mount it flush to the wall.  If you can, just hang thru one of the openings with a longer nail.  Or add a couple small sticky furniture pads to lift the frame away from the wall just a bit.