Traditional Meets Elegant Meets Rustic

I enjoy the eclectic…the mis-matching of textures, rustic and classic along with glamour and elegance.  That’s what I think I’ve accomplished in my little dressing area with some jewelry holders.  I, by no means, have a ton of jewelry.  I leave that up to my friend, Dana (hehe).  She is the accessory queen!

I have, however, started to collect my own assortment of pieces and wanted to have a fun and pretty way to display them because I am one of those “out of sight, out of mind” types of people and if I don’t see what I have, I never wear it.

The first thing I got was my mom’s jewelry box, which is a lovely traditional wooden box with her initials engraved in a brass plate on the top.

I’ve always loved this and at Christmas I asked her for it (brave, right?!).  Thankfully, she’d already started using something else for the millions of pieces she has (this one was literally exploding with jewelry) so she was happy to pass it along  to me.

Then, earlier this year, I purchased this whitewashed T-bar jewelry stand from (of course) World Market. {You can barely see it but it’s there!}  I felt like the t-bar needed something under it because it just looked, well, lonely with my necklaces puddling around on my (dated) counter.  I found this beautifully elegant tray at Just The Thing Boutique here in Columbia.  The colors are bright and cheerful…and it added the perfect punch of “girly” that I needed.

The last thing I wanted was a spot for all the bangles and bracelets.  Before, they were just all over the tray…and honestly, they made me a little crazy because bangles just don’t stack (and stay put).  So, then began my attempt to find something (different and unique) in which I could put all of said bracelets.  A week or so ago I saw an idea – using a beautiful apothecary jar.  That was my first idea and one that I liked very much.  Then I started looking at them and decided they were too big for my space.

Yesterday while I was at my local World Market I wandered around for something that I could use, anything really.  I was trying to keep a wide-open mind.   Per my post last night, I did leave empty-handed from the store, but not without an idea in mind.  I went to a different World Market today at lunch in search of something else and saw this woven wire hurricane holder (a candle holder) and thought, it’s completely perfect!

The hole at the top was big enough for me to pull bracelets in and out, and the fact that it was wire, I could hook some of them to the wire.  I left him sitting in a sweet little glass dish that belonged to my Nama for an extra bit of pretty.

I like my little jewelry nook now with its ease of seeing all things.  And everything having it’s own place.

Hopefully I can keep things as tidy as you see them here 🙂