Paint Strip Shelves

I bought this little wooden shelving thing with the intention of using it to display my rings at craft fairs. But when I got it home I found that when my beady cluster rings were put in the holes you couldn't really tell what they were.

So I found a spot on my wall to hang it and started to display my own, shop bought, rings in it. (I've found if I have my jewellery on display I'm more likely to wear it). The only problem was it wasn't very pretty, but I had an idea to change that.

On a recent trip to Homebase I picked up some paint strips. I needed four the same to fill the sections of my little shelves. Annoyingly, the sections are all slightly different sizes to I had to cut each square individually.
I placed the colours squares in the sections and found they stayed there on their own. This means I can change them when I want as they aren't glued down.

I love the gradient effect and it's so easy to achieve with paint strips as they have the range of colours already picked out.

My Model Room: #15 Book shelves and notice board

The room is starting to look a bit more 'lived in' as I'm filling up the shelves.

For my notice board I used a small bit of cork and put a tiny version of my calendar on it. Unfortunately the only image of the Country Music Hall of Fame calendar on the internet was the December page with Gretchen Wilson on it. I was hoping for Sugarland, or maybe Brad or Taylor. 

Hanging from one of my shelves I have some plastic crystals that were sold as Christmas decorations. I recreated these using clear seed beads and invisible thread. On the drawers underneath I made the red plastic container I keep my hair things in and my clock, which I still need to put the numbers on.

Here's a close up on the mini version of the wooden box I made in middle school, and some of my books. I made the books by taking a photo of the books on my shelf and sticking it to a little box made of card, slotting in more card for the taller books.

Also notice that I made the shelf brackets made of little bits of card painted pink.