Brooch storage ideas

Continuing my jewellery display and storage week, here's an idea for both storing and displaying your brooches. This idea is actually my mum's, and she made one for all the polymer clay brooches I made back in the 1980s. It was displayed just inside our front door, so it was easy to choose a brooch to wear when going out the door! A few years ago she made a couple more - one to display her collection of vintage jewellery by a Scottish company called Ceard, and one for me. I decided that mine…

I’m brainstorming and trying to figure out what I could do with the other 2 frames, I’m thinking I won’t go super traditional with the frame usage, so I took to…

Those of you who have been with me for awhile may recall my grandmother's enormous pin collection . About a million years ago I also ...

Whatever you collect, what good is it stashed in a drawer or hidden away in a box? If you want to know how to display collections, we've got 15 ideas.

I’m always looking for interesting ways to display items. Creating beauty wherever I am is something that I just can’t help but want. I don’t always have the time for it, but it does give me such pleasure when I do. Here are some of the most recent ideas that I’ve come across from Mamie [...]

How often do you wear brooches? If you’re a vintage lover like me then you almost certainly have one or two in your collection. But how often do they actually see the light of day? I realised back when Dorothy was a baby that I hadn’t even looked at my brooches in about a year,

Creative ideas for displaying small items at vintage markets and craft fairs.

This is GREAT! I've been looking for a way to display my brooches!

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