Pinterest is one of my absolute favorite websites. I'm sure it is for a ton of women out there. I can spend hours pinning different pictures related to home design, style and fashion, and inspirational quotes. If you have not heard of Pinterest, it is a social networking website that enables users to visually share, and discover new interests by posting pictures to their boards. This is known as 'pinning' in the Pinterest world. A board is a collection of images (a.k.a. 'pins') that normally have a similar theme. What I find most entertaining about the website is browsing other users' pins and boards. Each pin is linked to the website that it came from, so you are usually able to trace that image back to a tutorial, or instructions.
The other day I was browsing for images to pin and I came across this picture found on Style Me Shea of this beautiful vanity decor. I loved the girly touches in the mirrored tray and the colorful, dainty plates.
This picture was inspiration for me to 'dress-up' my own vanity and display my favorite jewelry pieces. My mom is an avid estate-sale goer, so I put her to work and asked her to look for little tea-cup plates and a large glass container, that was raised, if she could find it. I already have a mirrored tray that my mom and I had found at an estate sale, and that I planned to use for this very purpose.
My mom found the plates at various flea markets and sales. They are floral and dainty, just like the inspiration picture! She also found a glass container that was not raised, but had a great design and it came with a matching glass lid. To emulate the inspiration picture found on Pinterest, we decided to take one of my mom's old pudding glasses that she hardly ever uses and glue it to the bottom of the glass container; creating that raised look. Personally, I think it looks great!
I decided to take this opportunity to snap a few pictures of my engagement ring on my most favorite little plate. Nate and I found a similar design of my ring on Etsy. However, we were nervous about ordering an expensive piece of jewelry online. I have had friends that have had good luck with different vendors on Etsy, but Nate and I agreed that we did not want to take the risk of ordering the ring online. So, we went to a local jewelry shop that specializes in affordable, custom designs. We showed them the pictures, modified the design a bit, and they created this beaut!
The ring is two-toned white gold and rose gold around the halo. The center stone is an oval-shaped, white sapphire. I am so thrilled that I get to wear it for the rest of my life and that Nate and I went through the process of picking it out together!
So, there you have it! My Pinterest inspired jewelry display! In total this project cost around $10. Now I have a beautiful way to display some of my favorite pieces from my jewelry collection in a way that is pretty and fun to look at everyday. How do you think I did? Do they look similar?
How do you display your jewelry?
-Em