It's growing fast, and - as some readers have requested - it will make older posts, tips, and projects easier to find.

So don't forget to visit and bookmark my new site - www.jewelry-display-ideas.com .

It's going to be the place for great jewelry packaging and display tips and ideas!

Hand-hammered hoop necklace
by Alyson Garvey,
modeled by one of her friends
(photo by Judith Black).

Alyson shares how having friends model her jewelry works for advertising her business as well as for getting beautiful jewelry photos, in her article Getting Your Friends to Model Your Jewelry. (Includes photos of Alyson's jewelry with and without her models.)

Thanks so much for sharing your beautiful jewelry photos and great tips, Alyson!

Portable Jewelry Display Portfolio
by Carolina Gonzalez

Here's a close-up view, showing how earrings hang inside the portfolio:

. . . and a view of the buckle fastener that holds the portfolio shut:

Carolina shares this complete, easy-to-follow tutorial for making your own portable jewelry display portfolio (including lots more photos!) in her blog.

You can find it here:

Carolina's Jewelry Display Portfolio Tutorial

Thanks so much for sharing another great jewelry display project with us, Carolina!

AnnaLea's jewelry party display

Read AnnaLea's inspiring jewelry business story:

AnnaLea Sloan - Young Jewelry Business Entrepreneur
Discover how AnnaLea's passion for jewelry making, her determination to learn how to run a business, and her supportive family have combined to make her jewelry dream come true - including a net profit of $1000 from her first jewelry party at age 14!

Flower boxes from Bayley's Boxes

They make lovely, unique jewelry packaging.

They also have the advantage of folding flat for easy transporting to art shows and jewelry home parties.

Earring case designed by Kelly of
Richmond Craft Mafia
It's ingeniously created from an interesting trunk and a spool of ribbon.

Go to Kelly's easy earring case tutorial, which is not only well written, but also well illustrated with helpful photos.

Thanks for sharing this fantastic earring display tutorial, Kelly!

"Why pay for jewelry displays for your booth when you can make your own?

Ring and bracelet display by Joan Kraus

I took an old black kid glove and stuffed it with dryer lint.

When I sewed the end closed, I had a great display piece for my bracelets and rings!"

Thanks so much for this great ring and bracelet display idea, Joan!

Jewelry booth photo courtesy of JewelHut

According to Laura Carter of JewelHut, this jewelry booth structure is easy to build, set-up, teardown, transport and store.  It can adjust from 9'4" to 10" on-site, and requires no special skills.
Laura's plans "give you the tools and knowledge to create a unique, one-of-a-kind selling space that you can be proud of."

Booth photo courtesy of JewelHut

The JewelHut booth instructions include the booth plans, a list of materials, tools, and four options you can use to enhance your booth.

The plans can be emailed to you in PDF format or shipped to you on floppy disk or CD.

To purchase the plans: Jewelry Booth Plans by JewelHut.

Reminiscent of Guinivere, Galadriel, and other legendary ladies of long ago, this jewelry display would be wonderful for an art show, a gallery window, or a photography session.

Can you tell what this ethereal setting is made from?

Look closely and you'll see an ordinary styrofoam wig stand; a bit of fine, sheer fabric; and a piece of cheap netting - under dreamy blue lighting.

It's incredibly simple - and incredibly cheap! - but also very beautiful and moving.

Cheap jewelry display ideas are all around us!

Some of the best finds come from garage sales, thrift shops, and your own closets.

"I don't have pierced ears and I don't like clip earrings -they fall if the clips are soft and they hurt my ears if they are hard.

Through the years I've had a few ear climbers but they're not easy to find here! [Carolina lives on the Canary Islands.]

They seem to have run out of fashion and now I only find them on gothic jewelry online shops and the like; so, I decided to make some.

I love unusual and ethnic jewelry and, being into the tattoo world, you get to see a lot of it.

When you make about 20 pairs of earrings a week, it's wonderful to have a new shape to play with!

When I had done four or five sketching prototypes and was happy with the result (that includes wearing the piece along one day to see if it is sturdy enough), I started thinking about putting some on my online shop… and then I realized I had no idea how I was going to make good pics of them.

When I placed them on my light box, they looked like everything - except ear climbers.

Taking pics of them on my own ear was definitely not a choice! There is nothing wrong with my ear (ha ha) but it would really take too much time and tries.

Again, tattoo art saved the day.

I remembered that on my tattoo supplies catalogues there were piercing anatomic displays.

In case you didn't know, piercings may have many different shapes and lengths depending on the part of the body where they are going to be placed so silicone piercing displays are just that, body parts.

Lips, eyebrows, noses, etc. And of course, ears.

I looked for the catalogues and hand sculpted a real life size ear of air-dry clay.

After about 25 minutes of drying I inserted a bamboo stick (mini-note for beginner sculptors: let the clay dry a little before making any holes to the piece; they will be more even).

After it dried I sanded it and adjusted any small cracks (very superficial cracks are very common in air-dry clay pieces as it really shrink when they dry) and then painted it with acrylics and varnished it.

As you can see in the pics, I also added a hole in the lobe to show matching earrings if there were any.

My first idea was to leave it like that to be able to punch the bamboo stick on a vase filled with sand or something like that.

But then I remembered I had this gorgeous lamp stand I had painted and I thought it would be perfect for the style of my whole display, which is very gypsy and colourful.

I just glued the bamboo stick - et voilà! An ear climber display!"

Carolina, thank you so much for sharing another of your wonderful jewelry display ideas!

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