I bought a wooden chest with brass fittings on the internet. It has four drawers, 1 and 1/2 inches deep and a 2 inch deep compartment on the top. All are felt lined. I believe it was marketed as a storage chest for some typically-male sport (fishing or hunting). I keep jewelry of a different color in each drawer. Of couse, it doesn't hold enough. Everything else is in the cut-off box bottoms supplied to customers at BJ's, a warehouse retailer. One of my friends stores jewelry and supplies in an antique map chest, which has multiple 1" drawers.
At the moment, my jewelry is all on display -- in my bathroom on a towel rack! That's necklaces and bracelets. The earrings are on an earring tree I bought at a Renaissance Faire in Ohio a few years ago. And even that, which holds a lot of earrings, is getting full.
Cathy
I store all of my earrings on a piece of plastic canvas. I have one for silver, one for gold and one for others. Its simple and cheap! I hang them on the wall in my bedroom!
I display my jewelry on "trees" I made for a show. I used glass candle holders and vases filled with sand and decorative pebbles (seashells if you like), stuck a few twiggy branches into it and ta-da! Earthy, economical, and pretty display all in one.
To get earrings to stay on the branches without getting all tangled in each other, carefully use a pocket knife and make wide slits or smoothed areas into the branches at intervals.
I also bound multiple branches with hemp and stabilized them in the sad and rocks to create a multi-branch effect. Helps to keep them from falling over.
Kendra
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