A little while ago year or so ago I bought 2 framed cork boards at a garage sale for $.50 each knowing I could probably use them for something creative in the house.

Last week I finally did! I was tired of having to dig through my tiny jewelry box drawers to find matching earings and my necklaces were always getting tangled up. They were hanging on these 2 nails in my closet…

but that wasn’t work so great because I had to take each off to get to the one behind it.

So, with the help of my awesome seam-stress mother-in-law, we staple-gunned some fabric we found from her leftover stash onto the corkboards.

And then I hung mine up in my closet

and my daughter’s in the kids’ bathroom behind the door


We used push pins instead of hooks because that’s what we had. One day I might exchange those pins for some pretty little hooks. I also might paint the wood frame a different color one day too…but this works just fine for now. We can see and access our jewelry in a fun and easy way! This was a simple project that made me happy to complete.

P.S. Most of my lovely jewelry was gifted to me by my awesome brothers and family and a lot of it comes from the very talented Jeannie–check out her Bead Stylin’ Store!


I missed posting for small successes yesterday but I have been tackling a few projects around the house. I cleaned out the garage a few weeks ago and have been going around the house and setting aside items to donate and I might actually remember to set the bags out at the curb this time when the AMV van comes cruising along. One big thing I’ve wanted to work on for a while is our garage entry way pantry/medicine/tool/misc cuphoards. I forgot to take a before picture but I’m sure you can use your imaginations to visualize cuphoards overflowing with bandaids and screwdrivers and all sorts of other random items. I could never find what I was looking for when I needed it so it was time to clean it up and organize! I threw a lot away and found a lot of missing items.

Here’s what it looks like now!

Now whenever I walk by here it makes me smile in a very nerdy way. I even have room to spare now!

I feel so accomplished with this I’m going to go ahead and stick on the badge even though it’s not Thursday.

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