Organization and Storage

Organization and Storage

So it's always hard to figure out the best way to store earrings and charms once they are made until they sale. I started thinking about this a lot after the last vendor show that I did in November, because I found myself going through stuff two and three times looking for the same things. I knew I needed to figure out some better ways to make things work.

Wandering through JoAnn's the other day I cam upon these storage containers that were on sale 40% off, and I was sure they would be the correct size to store and organize earrings. So I bought one and it turned out perfect. I ended up going back and getting three more. I still think I need at least one more.

Now that I had the earrings under control, I got to thinking about my charms and circle printouts. I also am thinking about transporting necklaces. So I knew I liked that I got at JoAnn's but at the same time I needed something smaller and cheaper. So I was walking through Walmart and found two boxes.

The smaller box was perfect to store the circle printouts that I needed to make my charm necklaces and earrings.  Once they are printed and cut out, the smaller box allowed me to keep each type in a separate area. I ended up getting three boxes. One has all my NFL circles, another has all my NCAA circles and the third has varied circles. I think I might need one more of those boxes, but at only $3, I can handle that!!

Now this larger box is the perfect size for the charms once they are made.  At the moment I only have the one box, and I almost have it full and that is just with different holiday charms. I love it! Not only will this make a great way to store there charms, it also is a great what to display them at a show, so people can see the whole variety that I have ready to go, instead of only being able to show a few selected charms! I do know that I will need at least one more of these boxes. But since I got these at Walmart, the larger box was only $7. This makes the storage and organization affordable and worth it.

The bigger box I got at JoAnn's for the earrings was $15 on sale 40% off.  Which, that wasn't bad, but that means I have to make sure I have the 40% coupon every time I need to get a new one of those. I am thinking one more will work. This way I organize the earrings in each box.

I do need one more size box. I think I will be back at JoAnn's later this week to look, but I need one to store and organize the charms that have already been made into necklaces. That will need to be aa much bigger box, and they only have the two very small sizes at Walmart, so the larger earring size I have to get at JoAnn's and finding something bigger will have to be at JoAnn's as well.

I'm really excited. I have a vendor show coming up Saturday and so I am looking forward to seeing how the new storage solutions work for transporting them and displaying!