New Job, New Jewelry Needs!

OK, so I have a new job...where I work five days a week instead of the three days a week that I have worked for most of the last 25 years.  So these days are 8 hour days instead of my former 12 hour shifts, so I love it.  But truthfully not having four days off a week has limited my crafting time!

I have been a nurse for 30+ years and have always been a bedside nurse...until now!  I am an office nurse now, on the phone a lot (so I got me a great ear phone thingy now so my neck hopefully won't be so sore at the end of the day). 

I have my name on the door--first time every!  For that matter, first time to have a door or an office or desk...well you get the idea.   So that brings me to the next issue.  Now I can dress up and wear jewelry...I have some nice costume jewelry, some I have made too.  But it has been such a hassle to find necklaces here....

Everything is just junked into this drawer.  Necklaces are tangled, earrings are stuck in bracelets, earrings are solo...it's a big mess!

I found three necklace/jewelry trees on etsy that I liked....

I really like this one because it is so different

And I like this one for it's simplicity...

This one is even simpler and is smaller, taking up less space.

But I had other plans...I had more wall space than horizontal area for a tree.

I had been saving some porcelain knobs over the years and had three different kinds and sizes.  I had a board that was 1/2 x 2 x 24".  I painted the board with a greenish color for the primer coat.

And another coat of a robin's egg blue...

I drilled some holes and decided on how to arrange the knobs. Some were kinda beat up...

so I distressed the paint job and it looks great!

I found the square birds nest plate at Hobby Lobby for $1.34.  Not sure why it was so cheap, but I snagged it and ran!

The knobs on my dresser are white porcelain too....

So, for $8 I made this great jewelry holder.  The paint samples were 3.99 each so that's where all my money went!

And it is such a functional project...I look forward to just pulling a necklace off and wearing it without having to untangle it!

I think the some of the tops of the knobs are copper. 

Some of them came off my Goodwill desk makeover...

I love how the blue in the birds eggs match the back of the jewelry holder.