Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Guest Party: Love Sweet Love

**Today's awesome guest is Angela from Love Sweet Love!  Angela is crazy talented and comes up with awesome projects like a Family Rules Canvas made from pantry doors, and she makes a cute tiered planter, along with many other cute and easy projects.  I'm definitely going to use her tutorial to make a Wipes Band for my niece coming in September!  And since Angela has Sweet Tute Tuesdays, you can hop over to her blog every Tuesday to see what she's come up with next!  

Today Angela has an ADORABLE jewelry organizer tutorial!  I have been looking for a tutorial like this and it turned out so cute!  And take a minute to visit Angela over at Love Sweet Love!**

Here's Angela:






HELLO Jessa Jill readers!!! I am Angela, the voice behind Love Sweet Love, and being the double B.I.G. fan of Jessa Jill and her StYlIsH blog that I am, I am pretty STOKED to be doing a guest post here while she's soaking up the sun on an awesome VaCaY! Not to mention that it's also my birthday week-the awesome 28- (yes I celebrate ALL week, why not right?!) so what better place to be than here with you?! (you know, since I guess we can't be with her)
I use my little corner of the blogging universe to share my creative ideas that involve easy DIY projects for the home, craft ideas for kids, thrift store makeovers, and holiday decorating (the reason I started blogging!). My life is over-flowing with Sweet Love and I needed a place to share it!!
So today, in honor of being on a total fashionista blog, I wanted to share a recent gift I made for my little (16 yr. old) sister! I call it the
Picture Frame Jewelry Organizer:
While I was down visiting there a couple weeks ago, I noticed she had jewelry everyyyywherrrre! And since the kidlets and I were staying in her room (and they love jewelry possibly even more than I do-yep even my little boy) they were constantly getting into it. I figured rather than have to buy her all new jewelry I'd just make her something to store it all on so I wouldn't have to keep little hands out of it. And it's SO cute so why not?!


Here's a quick tutorial in case you want to make your own!

First I found a cheap $2 frame at a thrift store:


My sister picked out the colors that she wanted and she chose this pretty aqua/turquoisy color :)


Next the hubby and I went and picked up an {ultra} thin piece of plywood from the hardware store and he cut it (using a utility knife since my mom didn't have a saw-the preferred and normal way to cut wood :) ) to fit the frame.




After picking some fabric out of my mom's stash we glued in to the wood using wood glue-making sure to pull tightly against the board so the fabric laid flat.




The finished board fit perfectly, snuggly into the frame as it was, so no extra support was needed to hold it in.


I screwed in 6 medium hooks (that I spray painted black) into the upper portion of the fabric board; meant to be used for necklaces, bracelets, rings, etc.


3 large hooks into the wood on the bottom of the actual frame to hang bigger items like scarves, hats, chunky bracelets, etc.


The very top of the fabric board I was going to screw in 5 small hooks for earrings, and then remembered my sister doesn't have her ears pierced so I didn't end up putting them in, but that's what the empty space on top is for! :)


And that's it! So simple, so cute and so fun for ANY girl ANY age! I'm on the lookout now for the perfect frame to make my own!


Thanks so much to Jessa for letting me take over the blog today! And thanks to you for reading along with me! You can find me blogging away all week long over at Love Sweet Love so come stop by to see what crazy project I'll be up to next! Have a Sweetly Lovely day wherever you are!!

5 comments:

  1. LOVE the way this turned out!! Such a FAB idea!

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  2. Love Angela and I love the organizer. I need one, all of my necklaces keep getting tangled!

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  3. The color combo is fabulous! I just may need to make this for my own closet!

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  4. Great job Mrs. Love :) What a great color on that frame....I just love it!

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