Recently I watched a video tour of Heather Powers’ studio where she creates her fabulous Humblebeads and shares wonderful free projects on her Bead Table Wednesday videos. I love seeing inside people’s studios. If you do too, watch the video. Anyway, she was casually showing her enviable trove of art beads in these great sectioned wooden trays she had stacked on her table. I thought she had found a slew of them in an old farmhouse barn at an estate auction or something, when she said they were from Nile Corp! Oh. My. Goodness.
I immediately went and ordered a bunch. They are on sale and some sizes/colors are out of stock. I hope that doesn’t mean they are discontinuing them! But at least I got eight. I originally intended them for beads, but an ongoing storage need I have is also for jewelry.
I originally started out with this old wooden rake for some jewelry storage in my studio. Once it became full (it’s only not totally full now because when I wear a necklace, it gets put away elsewhere.) 
Then I ordered some super strong magnets and repurposed this calendar system for jewelry storage. Then I ordered more magnets and employed the side of my filing cabinet.
And more magnets that moved some of my jewelry into other parts of the house.
But I still have a mess on just about every surface, and a lot of it is jewelry.
This poor little cabinet always looks like this except for a day or two after I clean it. Mostly jewelry and jewelry-related items. Some random mail I’m pretending I’ll attend to “soon” and that blue thing a duster fits on that shows I at least intended to dust at one point. The wooden box with the building has jewelry in it, but it’s always covered with other jewelry, so I never wear whatever is in it. (It was covered with jewelry right before this picture, but I cleaned off the jewelry to try the experiment you will see in the next photo.
Here is one of the Nile Corp. trays with jewelry in it! If I put jewelry that fits fully into the cubbies in these, I can stack about three on each side of that little cabinet and keep it much cleaner. 
Chunkier jewelry can still hang. I’ll try this and see if it helps me keep a tidier area and a better way to find the items I’m looking for.
Whenever I do a storage post, I like to ask – what are your storage solutions? Share in the comments. Pictures welcome!
Bead Love 
My Storage solutions? haaa… I really wanted to clean my overflowing accessories shelf today and got around to arranging only my bangles in three boxes. I spent 10 minutes staring at the scattered pieces on the shelf which scared me completely. A bath, lunch and a nap later I am still scared to attempt cleaning it. My house gets really dusty so I cannot hang anything outside. Everything needs to go into boxes
Yes, I spend a lot of time staring at my mess and not knowing where to start! I always think things like these trays will be the magic solution. They help but it hasn’t gotten to the truly organized point yet.