Jewelry Tree

First of all, we need to take a moment of silence for all of the puns I could have used as the title for today's post.  I was tempted, but I held strong; they were all planted away for a better season.  Oh, wait - there was a pun right there!  Man, the urge to make a joke really takes root and...

Sorry.

I'm done now.

Promise.

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See that picture up there?  I noticed it on chevrons & éclairs a few weeks ago and was inspired.  Now, you have to understand that my idea of DIY is going to Michael's and buying lots of crafty things and putting them all out on the dining room table and walking away and hoping that, by the time I return, they will have made themselves into something pretty.  (It never seems to work out that way, for some reason.)  So that was the first obstacle that I was up against when I decided I wanted to replace the functional-but-boring case I had been using for years with this kind of necklace storage/display.

The second obstacle was that I actually wanted to use my necklace tree.  That means that it would have to fit on a dresser that sees daily abuse and therefore isn't so bare as the one above.  Plus, it would have to be stable enough to hold an assortment of chains of different lengths and weights.

I think we can agree that the deck was stacked against me as I contemplated this project.

But, you know, many would say that I'm an accomplished woman.  If I could write a dissertation on twelfth-century issues of gender and sexuality, I could make a necklace tree.  I mean, right?  Right.  And here's how I did it.

How cool is that?  I don't think I've ever been more proud of myself.  I never should have doubted, you know.  After all, my mother is very crafty, and they say the apple doesn't fall far from...

Sorry.