Jewelry Organizer from Free Yard Sale Find

"One man's trash...another man's treasure."  Isn't that how the saying goes?  

While I don't enjoy the heat and humidity of the summertime, I do enjoy one thing... yard sales!  I really enjoy looking for treasures from someone else's "trash".  One weekend this summer, I really scored BIG...I mean, I had a car load by the end of my day.  One of my scores...a free cork board.  Let me tell you...it was not a looker (however, I had big plans in mind).  

While I have a small jewelry box to house my jewelry, my necklaces just didn't have adequate space.  Plus, they weren't displayed well.  I had scoured Pinterest for ideas to remedy this problem.  Then, while I was yard sale shopping and I saw this bulletin board (for free mind you), I knew I could turn it into a jewelry organizer for my necklaces and bracelets:

I am conscientious of budget; so, I try to be thrifty as much as possible.  This project was no different.  I used a limited amount of materials on this project (most of which I had on hand), so here's my material list:

• I used some black and white tweed material that I purchased at an estate sale for $2 for several yards (used to cover the corkboard). 
• I used a  black and white skirt that I picked up from a yard sale last year (for free) for the outer edge to make ruffles. 
• I used A LOT of hot glue and my glue gun to adhere all of the fabric to the cork board for this project
• I trimmed out the seams with some braided trim (the most costly part of the project...more expensive than all of the other materials combined). (Not pictured)

This project was really fairly simple and is pretty self explanatory...and, now I have my necklaces and bracelets organized and in clear view to see instead of hiding in a drawer that I have to shuffle through.  I LOVE IT.  The directions are as follows:

1. Ensure the cork board is prepped and ready.  Take your first fabric and cut a little larger than your cork board surface area.  Hot glue along the inside edges of the frame and press the fabric down...do little areas at a time to make it more manageable.  Allow the fabric to cool and set once completed (which it will fairly quickly).  
2. Once the fabric covering the corkboard is adhered and trimmed, apply fabric around the frame.  (I deconstructed the skirt, and hot glued it by giving the fabric a little bit of ruffles with how I glued).  It is important to ensure that the wood in the frame is completely covered by the ruffle.  (I also ran my black and white tweed up some onto the frame, just to ensure that there wouldn't be a gap where either cork or the frame could possibly be seen).
3. After the fabric covering the cork board has been hot glued onto the surface and the fabric has been glued around the frame, pick out a great trim to hot glue in between the two fabrics as a finishing touch.  Hot glue it around each edge of the cork board, covering the rough edges and leaving a finished and polished look.

I simply purchased a pack of clear push pins to hang the jewelry on because I didn't want to compete with the jewelry itself with colorful push pins or tacks.  This was such a simple transformation, and if you go back to the before picture of the "free cork board"...this was just the right transformation for what I needed.  Now, I don't have to spend several minutes searching through my drawer where I had my necklaces and bracelets before!  Cute, functional, and inexpensive...right up my alley!  

How about you?  Are you in the same predicament that I was in with my jewelry?  My hope is that this might provide some inspiration for you.

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