When my necklace collection started exploding out of the little jewelry boxes I have, I headed to Home Depot for a solution. I'd planned on building an elaborate thingamajig out of dowels and fabric, but when I saw this tie rack for under $10, I was persuaded to forgo the craft project. I love that they are all out. I definitely wear them more now that I see them all the time.
I posted more shots of my necklaces in the afternoon sun on
my Flickr.
I used our old CD shelved as my shoe rack. The upper shelves hold some mini drawers for my spill-over earring/bracelet collection. We have another one of these that Andrew uses as a book shelf next to his computer. They are super useful because they are very compact but still have a lot of shelves.
We don't use the CD shelves anymore because we ripped all the songs from our CDs and moved them into storage books. We don't even use CDs anymore and hardly ever buy them. We get most of our music on
eMusic. I just realized we don't have a single cassette tape in the apartment. Nor a way to play them. How weird is that?