Jewelry Board

This post has been inspired by an item that I saw in a magazine. It was a Jewelry Board, in which you would tack pins to a decorative board and hang your jewelry from those pins. It was a lovely idea. It was not a lovely price tag. $80.00 for this little treasure. I could hardly justify it, since the jewelry that would be hanging from it, barely totaled the same amount.


I decided to make my own! But as I started thinking of all the work it would be, and money and supplies it would take to build the frame, add a back board to push the pins in, paint or fabric for the board, I became overwhelmed. And decided it wasn't worth it.

So the months passed... I reopened that same magazine, and found that same project. This time I was determined to make it. But soon I remembered why I stopped.

I told my wonderful husband my dilemma. He, being such a clever man, told me a simple solution. Use a cork message board and decorate that. GENIUS!!

So here is what I did...

I took my cork message board, acrylic craft paint (white), leftover fabric, and some spray adhesive and got to work.

First I painted the frame of the cork board. Then cut my fabric. Sprayed the back of the fabric with the adhesive spray (I would think another type of glue should also work, so long as it wont leave bumps). Applied the fabric to the frame. VOILA! Jewelry board complete. To hang my jewelry, I stole some pins from my sewing stash and they work just fine, as my jewelry isn't very heavy. I am sure that there and pretty push pins in the home office section of a department store that would be more sturdy and handle heavier jewelry.