Top 21 Ways to Organize Your Jewelry and Keep Them Neat

Jewelry comes in different shapes, sizes, and lengths, so each piece needs to be stored properly, and sorted by category. Maintaining an organized system not only safeguards your jewelry items but also simplifies the process of identifying jewelry that requires cleaning and keeps a record of your collection. Also, this approach assists in preventing the loss or theft of jewelry. However, before arranging your jewelry, examine each piece, eliminate those damaged pieces, donate pieces you will not wear, and mend pieces that need repair. Adopt these suggestions for the secure and efficient storage of your jewelry.

Designer: Amie Freling-Brown

1. Jewelry Drawers

Dedicate a shallow drawer in your bedroom or closet specifically for jewelry storage that ensures convenient access to your pieces. Introduce compartments of various sizes that allow you to categorize different pieces of jewelry such as necklaces, bracelets, earrings, and other items into distinct slots. If the drawer is deep, you can double the storage capacity by placing an additional jewelry tray on top of the first one.

2. Wall-Mounted Jewelry Organizer

Designer: Keebofly

Purchase a wall-mounted jewelry organizer to install near your dressing table. Alternatively, you can transform a shallow cabinet with a velvet or fabric internal liner, incorporating hooks for suspending necklaces, dividers for earrings, tiny drawers, and sections for arranging bracelets and watches, as shown in this example.

3. Jewelry Organizer Trays

Designer: FanBeautyLife

These drawer inserts come with compartments and slots designed to categorize your jewelry by its type. Opt for dedicated jewelry drawer inserts or adapt kitchen drawer cutlery holders or dividers to personalize the interior of your drawer. The dedicated storage compartments ensure that one keeps the jewels in their designated spots.

4. Jewelry Pocket Organizer

Designer: BAGSMART

A variety of hanging jewelry organizers, equipped with individual pockets, are readily available, and they are tailor-made for storing jewelry. They come with a hanger and can be hung in the wardrobe. These organizers are perfect for storing imitation jewelry, fashionable rings, and necklaces.

5. A Jewelry Stand

Designer: Alan Wisniewski

Designer: Urban Outfitters

Ideal for daily jewelry pieces, these earring organizers are great for neatly storing earrings on an attractive stand placed atop a dressing table or a bathroom vanity countertop. Available in various styles and sizes, these jewelry organizer stands enable you to view all your choices. The versatile design accommodates longer pieces to dangle freely while keeping small earring posts paired together.

6. Fine Jewelry Storage

Designer: Pottery Barn

Safeguard your valuable assets by storing fine jewelry and precious occasion gems within jewelry organizer boxes. These storage solutions ensure the security, organization, and protection from dust for infrequently worn pieces.

7. Tiered Storage

Employing a tiered storage system is essential for optimizing space and maintaining order. Take a look at the circular revolving storage option. Additionally, a tiered jewelry stand is perfect for segregating smaller items like ear studs, longer earrings, bracelets, and necklaces individually.

Designer: West Elm

When not in use, this tiered storage keeps the jewelry hidden from sight through its layered configuration.

8. Wall Organizer

Designer: Bill Watson

For those who adore necklaces, tangled chains can be quite troublesome, potentially leading to jewelry damage. Rather than allowing necklaces to become entwined within boxes or pouches, consider utilizing wall-mounted hooks to ensure that each strand remains distinct and well-protected.

9. Acrylic Jewelery Organizer

Designer: ICCGBHGO

Designer: OrganizersQueen

One of the most effective organizational solutions for jewelry storage is a clear acrylic jewelry box. Clear acrylic organizers that stand upright are not only space-efficient but also provide a neat, easily viewable choice for storing earrings of varying lengths.

The transparent box’s golden frame infuses a luxe vibe to the jewelry case.

10. Earring Holder

Designer: BiieiiDisplay

This arrangement offers an ideal method for storing your earrings, much like a display in a store.

11. Rotating Jewelery Organizer

Designer: Pottery Barn

Utilizing rotating organizers is a clever concept for jewelry storage as these organizers can accommodate a substantial amount of jewelry while ensuring easy accessibility through a simple swivel of the display. Many of these organizers even offer different storage configurations on each side, allowing you to rotate and view all your rings, necklaces, and earrings with each rotation.

12. Invest in a Jewelry Locker

Designer: Brown Safe

When dealing with valuable gemstones, an optimal choice for both jewelry storage and security is a divided safe that prevents burglary and offers optimum protection. Note that assigning a specific spot for each item in your collection prevents both damage and the risk of misplacing. The safe usually incorporates sliding trays with partitions to prevent pieces from making contact and causing scratches.

13. Jewelry Cabinet

Designer: Orren Ellis

This freestanding jewelry cabinet comes with a full-length mirror and an LED-lit makeup mirror. Beyond its organizational capabilities, it provides a convenient and efficient way to see all your accessories at once, reducing the time spent searching. Also concealed within the mirrored jewelry cabinet are three storage shelves, perfect for stowing handbags, books, or other items, while also enhancing the cabinet’s stability.

Designer: Mele and Co.

Elevate your dressing area with this feminine upright jewelry box crafted from wood and lined with suede. This compact jewelry box provides ingenious storage solutions like necklace compartments, hooks, all accessed through glass doors. Don’t miss the two small yet roomy drawers that makes this jewelry box a delightful addition to your space.

14. Decorative Wall Organizer

Designer: Ruby Mae

Combining functionality and artistic flair, this decorative wall display serves as an efficient jewelry storage solution. It offers a comprehensive view of your accessories all at once, making it especially suitable for organizing long necklaces. Crafted from metal, its design resembles that of a cactus.

15. Travel Organizer

Designer: Quince

If you need to travel with only a handful of jewelry items, then the travel pouch is an excellent choice. It’s compact yet reliable, making it an ideal selection for carrying a limited number of pieces.

Designer: Velutto

The foldable travel pouch accommodates various types of jewelry and watches, providing a well-organized system while traveling.

16. Innovative Earring Holder

Metal Windmill Hanging Jewelry Stand designed as a jewelry organizer for necklaces, bracelets, earrings, and rings, complemented by a jewelry tray base stand.

17. Bracelet Bar

The bracelet bar is one of the best ways and proven approach for organizing bracelets and bangles.

18. Wooden Jewelery Box

Designer: Ying

The Double Open Jewelry Box is a 3-layer large jewelry organizer that encompasses a necklace box, chain bracelet compartment, bracelet box, ring box, earring holder, and watch compartment, offering ample storage for various jewelry pieces.

With its innovative design and generous storage capacity, the pink-hued box is an ideal solution for teenagers looking to consolidate all their jewelry in one organized space.

19. Jewelry Hanger

Designer: Heidi Kay

This jewelry hanger efficiently utilizes the space of a single clothes hanger while providing the convenience of hanging necklaces on both its sides.

20. Picture Frames

Designer: Kathie

Combining wall art aesthetics with practicality, these picture frames serve dual purposes and come equipped with integrated hooks designed for necklace storage. This design is particularly well-suited for smaller living spaces.

21. Rattan Jewelry Organizer

Designer: Dunn Rustic

The tabletop Rattan Jewelry Organizer provides a comprehensive solution for arranging your jewelry collection. It includes designated sections for various pieces like rattan hooks for hanging earrings, pegs for necklaces, slots for rings, and a compact compartment for miscellaneous items. Additionally, since it is freestanding and can elegantly grace any dresser, vanity, or desk.

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These elegant colored glass pieces are actually dyed using crushed stones

Just like with clothing, it’s also too easy to take for granted how glass-based products can actually be harmful to the environment in the long run. While glass itself is made from sustainable resources, the dyes used to give them vibrant colors are toxic to the environment. Even worse, colored glass can’t easily be recycled because of that mixture and because it’s nearly impossible to bring the material back to its natural transparent state. To make decorative glass truly sustainable, a new method of coloring glass needs to be developed, and one designer embarked on a journey of two years and hundreds of miles to come up with a solution that matches Haute Joaillerie in elegance but surpasses it in sustainability.

Designer: Salome Maarek

Glass is beautiful and useful in so many ways. It is used in furniture as functional parts of tables and shelves, and it is used in decorative pieces that require reflective or transparent surfaces and faceted forms. It can even be used in place of precious stones, and, of course, stained glass has been in use for centuries. As beautiful as it may be, colored glass apparently has a dirty secret. They are, unfortunately, toxic to the environment both in their production and disposal.

In searching for a better way to make beautiful glass, Jerusalem-based Salome Maarek looked to natural stones for the answer. The designer initially considered dyes from fruits and plants but realized that they had their own negative environmental impact as well. Stones, on the other hand, are in abundance, but Maarek didn’t just grab any stone. The stones are locally sourced, that is, they come from different regions in Israel. And to make the process environment-friendly from start to finish, the stones were gathered while journeying on foot or by bus.

The glass itself is made from typical ingredients like silica, sodium bicarbonate, dolomite, and the like, while crushed stone powder is mixed in to act as natural dye. The stones themselves come in various forms like potash, copper, sand, and clay, and this variety has resulted in different colors and textures. So far, the process has yielded colors such as moldavite green, turquoise blue, indigolite, amber-orange, and tourmaline yellow, all without the use of harmful chemicals and materials.

There are some considerations that make this sustainable way of making colored glass a bit more difficult than normal, harmful colored glass. For example, the glass was melted at only 1,200C for hours, which is a lower but more sustainable temperature. This meant that the glass had to be mold-blown rather than using a more common hand-blowing technique.

The result, however, is definitely worth all that work, with a beautiful piece of colored glass that can withstand pressure up to 5 tons. It can also survive temperature changes without cracking, unlike regular colored glass. And even if made with unconventional materials and methods, the result is glass that can be used as a more durable alternative to Haute Joaillerie, offering gorgeous pieces of gem-like glass that don’t show a single clue that they were colored using ordinary stone.

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Wearable health monitoring gets stylish with these rings that can potentially watch your glucose

If smartwatches and fitness bands aren’t your thing, then something more discreet like this smart ring could still keep you on top of your health.

Although fitness trackers have been around for years, recent events have caused a surge not only in interest but also in sales. The arrival of smartwatches also made it easier for people to keep tabs on their bodies, and the Apple Watch’s plethora of health monitoring features have become the gold standard for these wearables. Not everyone, however, is willing to part with their favorite timepiece, and wearing a rugged-looking fitness band might clash with their preferred fashion style. Fortunately, there are companies already putting a ring on health, and Movano might have the most stylish one to rule them all.

Designer: Movano

Admittedly, there aren’t that many players in this smart ring market, at least the ones that are intended to keep track of health rather than giving wearers some techno-magical powers to control devices. The most notable of this bunch is perhaps Oura, but its style and size definitely don’t appeal to everyone. That’s where the Movano Ring comes in, offering an alternative that specifically caters to women that prefer something less conspicuous and even fashionable.

It’s easy to mistake the Movano Ring as a fashion accessory rather than a health tracker, coming in Gold, Silver, Copper, and Black colors. The open-loop or twisted design gives it more personality while also ensuring that it can adjust to any finger size. More importantly, you won’t see the bare electronics underneath, unlike on the Oura, at least if product renders are to be believed.

 

Movano’s wearable isn’t just a pretty face, though, and it promises the staple features you’d find on larger wearables. That includes measuring heart rate and heart rate variability, sleep, respiration, temperature, blood oxygen levels, steps, and calories. It correlates this data and transforms them into information and advice that most people will be able to understand, rather than having to rely on charts and graphs to try and make sense of all the figures.

The one thing holding back the Movano Ring is its availability, which might not happen until later this year. That does give it enough time to get FDA approval for some of the features that require regulatory clearance first. Even while preparing its first product, the young startup is already settings its sights high, putting resources into R&D for non-invasive glucose monitoring and cuffless blood pressure measuring, which could quickly put it ahead of the competition.

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This YouTuber made a Green Lantern Ring out of an actual meteorite rock





Patrick Adair isn’t your regular silversmith. In his own words, he makes rings “to stand out, not fit in”, and is known to stray away from common elements like gold, silver, or platinum. Instead, Adair’s jewelry is crafted from things like carbon fiber, damascus steel, titanium, a variety of highly eye-catching gemstones, and in this instance, an actual meteorite. While Adair’s methods, materials, and designs definitely set him apart, he even documents his ring-making processes on YouTube for his little-short-of-a-million fans. The video above remains one of my favorites, and has garnered nearly 5 million views. In it, Adair builds a lifelike replica of Green Lantern’s power ring using a block of meteorite rock, and an Emerald fitted into it. The result is nothing short of stunning, although the two-part video should truly fascinate any DIYers interested in the ring-making process.

The ring was pre-ordered by a client who sent Adair a replica of the Green Lantern ring for reference. Making the necessary measurements and design considerations, Adair started by water-jet cutting a piece out of a block of meteorite, before drawing the profiles of the design details on it. A few details (like straight lines, etc) were carved out using a milling machine, while other curved lines and profiles were hand-carved using a sanding disc and drills.

Once the entire ring was carved out of the meteorite rock, deburred, and polished to make it smooth and glossy, Adair proceeded to etch the ring by dunking it in an acid bath. The etching would reveal the meteorite rock’s ‘windsman pattern’, caused by the iron-nickel crystals forming a long structure. The etching process affects all the metals in the meteorite differently, resulting in the unique crisscross pattern that makes the ring look so otherworldly. Finally, an emerald gem was fitted in the top to complete the project before being handed over to the customer. Adair’s meteorite rings can go north of a grand, and I’m sure this one didn’t come cheap (considering he actually bought a CNC milling machine for this) but then again, people spend millions on NFTs and those things aren’t even real…

Designer: Patrick Adair Designs

This YouTuber made a Green Lantern Ring out of an actual meteorite rock





Patrick Adair isn’t your regular silversmith. In his own words, he makes rings “to stand out, not fit in”, and is known to stray away from common elements like gold, silver, or platinum. Instead, Adair’s jewelry is crafted from things like carbon fiber, damascus steel, titanium, a variety of highly eye-catching gemstones, and in this instance, an actual meteorite. While Adair’s methods, materials, and designs definitely set him apart, he even documents his ring-making processes on YouTube for his little-short-of-a-million fans. The video above remains one of my favorites, and has garnered nearly 5 million views. In it, Adair builds a lifelike replica of Green Lantern’s power ring using a block of meteorite rock, and an Emerald fitted into it. The result is nothing short of stunning, although the two-part video should truly fascinate any DIYers interested in the ring-making process.

The ring was pre-ordered by a client who sent Adair a replica of the Green Lantern ring for reference. Making the necessary measurements and design considerations, Adair started by water-jet cutting a piece out of a block of meteorite, before drawing the profiles of the design details on it. A few details (like straight lines, etc) were carved out using a milling machine, while other curved lines and profiles were hand-carved using a sanding disc and drills.

Once the entire ring was carved out of the meteorite rock, deburred, and polished to make it smooth and glossy, Adair proceeded to etch the ring by dunking it in an acid bath. The etching would reveal the meteorite rock’s ‘windsman pattern’, caused by the iron-nickel crystals forming a long structure. The etching process affects all the metals in the meteorite differently, resulting in the unique crisscross pattern that makes the ring look so otherworldly. Finally, an emerald gem was fitted in the top to complete the project before being handed over to the customer. Adair’s meteorite rings can go north of a grand, and I’m sure this one didn’t come cheap (considering he actually bought a CNC milling machine for this) but then again, people spend millions on NFTs and those things aren’t even real…

Designer: Patrick Adair Designs

This sleek technical watch design defies traditional watch-making with an elliptic shape and transparent case!

We’ve seen all-ceramic square watches, synchronized dancing clocks, and even watches with cyberpunk dreamworlds encased within glass domes. There are probably as many unique watch designs out there as there are designers for them. Watches typically represent fashionable microcosmic introductions to the people wearing them. That’s why vintage Casios can bring us right back to their heyday in the 70s or why wearing a watch similar to Tony Soprano’s 18K yellow gold Rolex can make us feel like mob bosses from New Jersey. Norm Edward’s elliptic-shaped technical watch brings us elsewhere, sometime in the distant future – maybe to the Hollywood set of the 52nd James Bond installment or a space community on Mars.

Heritier, a community of watch enthusiasts who create limited edition timepieces, aims to carry horology heritage and values into the 21st century by bridging global communities, partnerships, and charity initiatives with a joined love for watches. Edwards’ technical watch render began as a study in Heritier’s founder, Julien Bonzom’s passion for horology and watchmaking. Encased within a thin, double-paned glass dome, the clock’s inner workings are only slightly revealed. While some cogwheels and gears are within view, a multi-level, concentric design pulsates from the clock’s center and extends to the dial’s inner edge, where numerical minute markers indicate the time of day. Matte stainless steel accents both cradle and cleverly obstruct the glass dome, matching the round cluster of sprockets and gears at the timepiece’s overhanging extension, which keeps the watch in time.

Resembling the look of a joystick, or even a narrow egg-shape, Norm Edwards’ technical watch design could be envisioned wrapped around the wrist of some futuristic spy agent or a successful, metropolitan businessperson pelting between skyscrapers in a hovercraft. Whoever’s wearing it, the watch’s abstract shape and sleek, somewhat hidden inner-mechanism give off an air of composed complexity, a combination that has always mystified the world of timekeeping and watch-making alike, and always will.

Designer: Norm Edwards

Earphones that magnetically hang like a necklace for the ultimate tech-fashion statement

Being an audiophile means you take the audio quality and ergonomic fit of your earphones pretty seriously. If you get one that is stylish too, then you are in for a jackpot. Having a pair of earbuds that come with a snug fit, boast style statement and the reassurance of not being misplaced is something you just can’t ignore.

We are talking about these earphones that are designed to double up as a jewelry piece. Designed by Yibai Science & Technology from Shenzen, these are called the “Jade Culture Earphone Jue 20.” That’s a bit odd name but everything else about these conceptual wireless earbuds listed on iF Design Award 2020 is super cool. When not in use, the earbuds magnetically lock together to take the form of a necklace pendant that’s suspended by the tethering wire. Then again, when you want to listen to your favorite tunes, simply separate the pendant and get groovy. Picture this scenario – your buddy compliments, “This pendant looks so cool, bud”, and you’ll detach them and plug-in to your ears to their amazement, “It’s my pair of earbuds, mate!” Added bonus – you surely won’t lose one of the earbuds as there is no accidentally falling down- speaking to you AirPods!

The earbuds are designed keeping in mind the ergonomic comfort while listening to music for an extended duration of time, which is a usual affair with music lovers. They come with the “half-ring in-ear” method for use in the listening mode. To give them a sophisticated look – both as an earphone and modern jewelry piece – the makers have draped the outer sculptural shape in high-polished material. The glossy finish in emerald green and gold color options is classy and doesn’t look tacky in either use case scenario. Don’t be surprised if these designer earbuds kick-off a new trend of electronic jewelry – in particular – for wireless earphones or even True Wireless Earbuds.

Designer: Yibai Science & Technology

These fitness-tracking toe-rings are the perfect fusion of wearable tech and Indian culture

The Lexus Design Award-winning Mettis Rings are the perfect confluence of heritage and the future. Building on the cultural significance of jewelry in India, the Mettis are toe-rings that are state-of-the-art yet culturally relevant. These toe-rings come embedded with the same technology as any fitness wearable, in a package that embraces traditional values. Toe-rings are often given to women as wedding gifts in Indian lore, and are considered to have health benefits that align with Ayurvedic practices… the Mettis builds on that by introducing technology into the rings in a way that makes those health benefits more direct and appealing to younger generations.

Even though they house technology inside, the Mettis rings embrace the persona of jewelry. Built for Titan, a prominent watch and jewelry brand in the country, the rings come with a metallic finish and sit inside one of two sleek, matte black cases – for charging at home and for charging while traveling. Originally toe-rings in the Indian culture come made from silver, which absorbs positive energy from the ground you walk on. The Mettis, however, use sensors that help monitor your health. Whether you’re walking, running, exercising, or even swimming, the rings capture your body temperature and your heart-rate, working just like smartwatches and fitness wearables do. The rings actively track your location, count your steps, monitor sleep patterns, as well as help you keep track of your period cycles… all while strongly echoing the cultural relevance of toe-worn jewelry in Indian customs and traditions.

Designer: Anshuman Kumar for Titan Industries

This rustic bottle opener was designed to be an antique of the future!

An ideal way to spend a Friday night, after a long hectic day at work would be an opportunity to sip on some cold brews and spend some quality time with friends, both old and new. Inspired by this very notion, James Connors designed the Wayne Bottle Opener for idor, a small design store that aims to create antiques of the future.

Crafted from stainless steel and bronze, the bottle opener features two circles wherein the inner one splits and expands to form the outer one. The merging of both circles signifies the very act of connecting with your loved ones with a beverage of your choice. The bottle opener was created by 3D printing the metal, making every single piece unique and no two pieces exactly the same.

The designer claims there are about 100 techniques we can use with our fingers to pop open bottles using the Wayne Bottle Opener! However, the easiest one is to use the space between the two circles to open the bottles. And it gets even more interesting! The bottle opener also functions as a necklace or a coffee table piece. Place the artistic piece on your center table to add a pop of rustic metallic fun to it! Or slip a chain or string through it, to wear it around your neck as a quirky accessory.

A multifunctional bottle opener that serves as a decorative piece, and possesses fashion appeal? Available in options of Bronze-Silver and Bronze, The Wayne Bottle Opener works for everyone!

Designer: James Connors for idor

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With Vatican launched a wearable eRosary, is faith destined to meet tech?

In an era where smartwatches tell us not only the time but also how much we’ve walked, eaten, our body temperature, our biometric details and at the same time allow us to respond to texts, make calls and basically anything else we can think of, it’s not surprising that the Vatican has decided to dip its toe into the vast pool of opportunities that is wearable technology.

The Vatican has launched ‘The Click to Pray eRosary’; an interactive and app-driven wearable bracelet, that can be used to learn how to pray the rosary. Comprising of 10 black agate and hematite rosary beads and accompanied by a silver smart cross, the device was launched by the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network and designed by GagdeTek Inc. The beads and the cross represent “the ever-enduring human faith”. Users need to make the sign of the cross on the interface of the smart cross to activate the eRosary.

Going beyond its aesthetics, the eRosary is also connected, logging the user’s progress and logs each rosary that is completed. You can sync the bracelet to its companion app “Click to Pray”, available on both iOS and Android. The app provides access to an audio guide, videos, and images, as well as “personalized content about the praying of the Rosary.” Three methods of prayer are offered to the user. They can either select the standard rosary, a contemplative rosary or thematic ones that are updated throughout the year in accordance with religious occasions and holidays. The Vatican did not neglect healthcare, and in fact added a feature wherein the eRosary tracks the user’s health data, encouraging users to “have a better lifestyle”.

“Aimed at the peripheral frontiers of the digital world where the young people dwell, the Click to Pray eRosary serves as a technology-based teaching tool to help young people pray the Rosary for peace and to contemplate the Gospel,” the Vatican said. They hope that this project “brings spiritual tradition and the latest technological advances together.” By incorporating technology with faith, it seems like the Vatican has taken a step towards inciting more participation and inclusivity when it comes to prayer activities. Though religion has been a part of our lives, will tracking people’s, especially the younger generation’s faith encourage them to be more involved in prayer and religion? Or will it just drive them away? With the independent attitude of the Millenials, it is quite hard to predict. A wearable device that records and tracks your daily prayers could lead to more inclusivity in faith, or it could prove to be a major stumbling block… that only time will tell.

Designer: GagdeTek Inc. (GTI) for The Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network