Old Album Earring Organizers

Finding yourself more and more bored today? Looking for a fun project that can help you get organized? Get a nail and poke holes in an album! When you do, you can create just one of several earring and jewelry organizers, which is also a noticeable room accent. Use a 33 LP - an album - to make your choice of earring and/or jewelry organizers.

Poke holes in an album to make a really cool earring organizer. An easy way to poke holes in an album is to slide a potholder onto your hand, hold a pair of pliers, and with them, hold a nail. Heat the nail over a flame or a burner, and push it through the album. You dont need a huge nail and a huge hole; just make a hole large enough to slide the wire of an earring into. Create a pair of holes, side-by-side, with a small space between them. Make more and more sets of holes, all over the album, in a certain pattern or randomly.

On the back of the album, use double-sided tape, and stick it to random places on the backside, without covering any holes. The tape pieces should be stacked so that they are thick. Stick the album to a piece of foam board, wood, cardboard, or another material, or just stick it to the wall. The tape pieces will keep the album from lying flat against the board or wall, and allow room for hanging the earrings. Hang the board and then hang many pairs of earrings on the album. Make a different jewelry holder by using a large, thick, round magnet. You can find one at a home improvement store, or order one online. Glue the magnet, or use double-sided tape to secure it - and position it over the round label of the record. The magnet allows you to simply stick earrings, necklaces, bracelets, and other jewelry pieces, to the top and sides of it. Using small but strong magnets, you can make a jewelry organizer that features the magnets on the back. Glue or otherwise attach the magnets to the back of the album and hang it up. If the magnets are strong enough you can just touch the jewelry piece to the front of the album, and a magnet on the back will grab it. If the jewelry organizer you make still shows the label on the record, its an option to cover it up. Just cut a circle of cloth or decorative paper, and glue it over the original label. Instead of making holes in the record, you could use peel-n-stick, plastic hangers, and hang necklaces, bracelets, and hoop earrings. The finished organizer is unique, useful, and cute in a bedroom with a music, retro, or teen theme.