Jewelry Tree

So I was shopping in Marshalls a few months back and I kept wandering past these branch looking things. I believe they are called Manzanitta but I could be wrong. They looked pretty cool but I had no where for them so I just strolled on by. I went about my shopping, which is seriously a dangerous thing for me to do at Marshalls, and then I passed a women who had them in her cart! And she was quite a fancy looking lady. Very elegant and rich looking, something I secretly envy to be ;) So I decided I should have them in my house too. I go back put them in the cart and check out. Now I'm usually pretty good at checking the price tag on things but this time I did not, I figured they were just branches after all and it was Marshalls so it couldn't be that bad...so I didn't check my receipt until I got home....oops! They were $15 each! I was shocked, I bought two of them so I now owned $30 worth of branches. They were immediately going back to the store!!...or so I thought, days and weeks went by and I completely forgot to return them, so I was stuck. Where in the world was I going to put these things and actually make them work?!?! This is the closest I could find to what they look like without showing you yet where mine ended up....

 

I'm still not too sure why I thought they would work for my house...but anyway....After they made their way around our house from shelf, to dresser, to filing cabinet, to counter top and after hubby and I had many little tiffs over where to put them since they didn't actually fit on any of the shelves, dressers, filing cabinets or counter tops and we were constantly running into them and knocking them down, I told him to just hang them on the wall one day! I don't care where, just hang them anywhere!

 

So I get home from work, and he did a mighty nice job at hanging them in the perfect spot in our bedroom....

I thought they looked pretty cool there, but they were still so plain. So as I was changing into my comfys one night, and taking my necklace off I decided to try hanging it from this "tree" that we created on our wall. And it looked pretty darn cool if I do say so myself, so I went through all of my jewelry and hung all the necklaces and chunky bracelets earrings and even a couple scarves on the "tree". Now my jewelry box has freed up space so the drawers can actually shut and I got to use my fancy decoration!!

 

Yay! So happy with the end result. Project #1 of many complete! I'm so excited about my journey to a Purdy life!

 

 

xoxo  Kerri  xoxo