Quick and simple earring holder

Yes, it's school holidays again which means I get to see what my house looks like during the day and can pull out the old projects that have been sitting abandoned and alone for months.

Today's project to get me back in to the mood is more practical than pretty although you can glam it up as much as you like.  It's for a earring holder for hanging earrings.  Something I needed as the holder that I had was pretty enough but only really useful for 5 pairs at most.

Picture frame style earring holder

I'll be the first to admit that this is not an original idea (I first found it on Pinterest so who knows where the original came from!)  But I do like the idea it's simple enough that I spent less than $5 on the whole project and most of that came from buying the frame I used from the Salvo's Op Shop.

Materials

• A picture frame
• Pretty paper-  OK, I went with black as I wanted the jewellery to be easy to see but you can go as wild as you like
• String or wire or chain with bigish loops- I used a discontinued product called DMC Desire, it's a wire wrapped with cotton thread

Method

Here is my frame with a pretty but boring and yellowing picture from the op shop.  But who cares, I'm not keeping it anyway.  Oh but do check that it's easy to remove the picture or have patience if you bought a frame with the image stapled in...

 ...like I did *sigh*

Oh well, a bit of leverage with a screwdriver got those staples out and I cut a piece of black paper to fit the frame (hey it could be art- go listen to Martin Pearson's 'The Black Painting Song') or use pretty paper if you prefer!

  Now, assuming that your frame either had glass or backing card, place the paper over the glass and start attaching your lengths of wire.  Just tape should be fine unless your earrings can double for fishing weights.  Do keep in mind how long your earrings are with your spacing.

Then pop it into your frame and you are done.  Ridiculously simple but it holds a lot of earrings in a way that lets you quickly look for and get any pair that you like.  In fact, I think I could get a few more pairs now...