There are thousands of jewelry boxes, and just as many configurations. But many of these boxes do not provide any specific storage for earrings. A large box, at best, in which all the costume jewelry becomes irreparably tangled. To remedy the problem, all you have to do is compartmentalize the box!
Sort through the cupboards and reserve plastic food packaging intended to separate biscuits or chocolates in their packets. These small miniature cells are easily cut out and fit into most jewelry boxes, thanks to their low height. Attach the sizes and shapes, holding them to the bottom of the box with double-sided tape or glue. Then fill in by dropping a pair of earrings chosen by cell! An other idea ? Simple paper cases for sweets.
If you've chosen a box that's already divided into miniature compartments, you'll be hard-pressed to do better…unless the compartments are too small to accommodate your gemstone earrings. In this case, cut the separations with a cutter to form larger boxes, or fill another box with cells of the right size!
Unless you handle your earrings every day, they will eventually get damaged. Worse, some models see the light of day more often than others, and the leftovers from the jewelry box quietly oxidize while waiting... The trick? Protect the most fragile in suitable cases. Simply keep the pouches delivered with the earrings in jewelry. Store them inside before slipping them into the jewelry box and you're done!
If you don't have a pocket available, make them by assembling a rectangle of felt folded in half. Sew each side by hand or by machine, unless you opt for glue... As for the more manual ones, they will create custom pockets of various sizes and patterns, to be closed with a ribbon.
The puzzle of the jewelry box is called stud earrings:these miniature earrings occupy a compartment for nothing, unless they mix with their fellows... to no longer find their way around. Settle the problem once and for all, by cutting out squares from card stock. Be careful, real cardboard would be too thick, prefer a yoghurt packaging cardboard, for example.
Using a large needle or an awl, then drill a series of two parallel holes, spaced 1 or 2 centimeters apart. All you have to do is attach the studs, closing with their chip at the back! Apply the same system to small sleepers or miniature hoops, by drilling holes in strips of cardboard, rather than squares.
