Chambray Lane

Woo Hoo! Home from a pretty sweet vacation at the parents house in Panama City. I always love visiting with my family they are awesome. BF graduated training with flying colors! He's awesome. Oh and we got ENGAGED....no big deal. Just kidding..way big deal! Happiest day ever! And now that means I can craft on Mr. and Mrs. stuff...family name stuff...a whole new crafting era  has just been born! 

My ring...the details are amazing....I'm in love.

Came home aching to get my hands on a project...and came up with this simple and quick to make cigar box jewelry holder....I was looking for ideas for my cigar boxes that my wonderful mother brought home for me (she unknowingly has started a new obsession for me) and came across a pic on pinterest of a ring holder...I changed mine up a little and added a little space for other little pieces like earrings or bracelets..

All it took was one cigar box, some felt fabric I posted about a couple months ago that I picked up at Goodwill, cardboard, and a glue gun...I chose the deepest box I had since I have a lot of rings with big jewels, flowers, baubles, and whatnot...I wanted to make sure the top would close all the way. I glued down fabric into the bottom of the box for the area that I planned on using for bracelets, earrings, etc...

I accordion folded  2 stiff pieces of cardboard...mine happened to be leftover from picture frame backings...in the original DIY I saw of this here the crafter simply accordion folded the fabric...I gave that wayf a little test drive and felt like I wanted a little more support instead of just the material....(the pic below is just one of the pieces...after I folded them I just glued two ends together to make once long piece)

Then I simply used my glue gun and attached the fabric on top the the cardboard following the folds...

Last thing I did which I just realized I don't have a picture of was wrapped folded scrap fabric around the ends of the folded/glued pieces to keep the accordion folds tight and just to create a clean look...All that's left of gluing it into the box and voila! A cute and easy jewelry box! I'm excited to see what else I can do with these...although even if i just stacked them around the house cigar boxes are really works of art on their own! They are so colorful and detailed...you can actually buy them online...usually in sets of ten...I've found some for around 20 bucks for a variety of boxes in a set...not bad...I'm having my mom who works in a small store keep the empty ones for me...can you believe they just get thrown away?!