I am a nosey person by nature. Therefore as an avid blog/vlog follower some of my absolute favorite videos or posts are all about how people organize their stuff. I know that probably sounds so weird and creepy, but its true. In light of how much I love those posts, I thought I would do one of my own. I have no clue if this will be interesting to anyone but I had fun putting it together so here it is :)!
My husband and I live in a barely 400 square foot studio apartment. Needless to say anything that can do double duty, storage/looking cute, is what we tend to go for. You can open literally anything in our apartment and find something in it... Every cupboard is stuffed, every drawer is full and every surface is piled with things (in the most ascetically pleasing way of course).
When we first moved in (over a year ago) it was somewhat challenging for me to find places to put everything. Jewelry specifically was a challenge because I had always organized it on top of my vanity... But seeing as our apartment is so tiny my vanity area was the first thing to go, more specifically the vanity never entered the apartment. Sooooo all my jewelry needed to find a new, consolidated, home.
Up until about 3 months ago the bulk of it was living in zip locks within several small dresser drawers by our bed (not exactly efficient space wise but it was the best option for the time being). I was so sick of this because I could never find anything and everything felt messy. Necklaces were tangled, earring were constantly found without their mates and nice jewelry pieces where getting damaged from being mixed up with other jewelry. So here were my simple, inexpensive and quick solutions:
1. Get rid of some! Lets face it everyone has things they never wear. I had a ton of jewelry I hadn't worn in ages so for the sake of organization and desperate need of space, I donated it. My goal was to be using only one drawer for jewelry instead of all three. Other things need to go in those drawers for goodness sake!
2. Find a way to use one of the drawers in an efficient way. To do this I bought a faux crocodile felted jewelry carton (I really have no idea what to call this thing hahaha, there is a picture below). This thing has made my life so much easier when it comes to finding my earrings, daintier bracelets and rings. It also helped consolidate so well that I was able to put my husband's watches and a few pairs of my sunglasses (not pictured) in the drawer!!!
On the surface of the dresser I also keep mine and my husband's perfumes/colognes. I've organized all of them (as well as the ring holder and glass vase) on a silver plated tray which I feel really helps everything stay were its suppose to be. There is a tall glass jar in the back were I keep pony tail holders, bobby pins and a head band handy. In the very back corner is just a mug of pens, a picture frame (which I still need to fill with a picture of MY actual cat) and a lamp.
I should also ad that I keep several "jewelry trays" around the apartment for times when I need to remove rings in the kitchen to do dishes, or when I'm sitting on the couch feeling to lazy to walk 5 ft to get to the jewelry "station'. These trays are great because they make certain that jewels never get put someplace random, knocked to the ground and then lost FOREVER. And that's pretty much it as far as my jewelry organization tips go!!!
