{"id":6355,"date":"2024-06-01T17:42:41","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T00:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/donnaweaverdesign.com\/?page_id=6355"},"modified":"2024-08-28T06:33:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T13:33:05","slug":"inspired-jewelry-organization","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/donnaweaverdesign.com\/inspired-jewelry-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost in Your Jewelry Box?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Part 1: How I Decided To Organize My Jewelry<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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EEK! I can't find my earrings!<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Actually I can\u2019t find much of anything<\/i> in this jumble!<\/p>

Have you ever had a moment like this?\u00a0 <\/span>You’re in a hurry, getting dressed, and your last step is to grab your jewelry.\u00a0 <\/span>The chances of finding a small matched pair of anything seems pretty dim.<\/p>

Some version of this scene has probably happened to most of us who have been collecting jewelry for more than a week.<\/p>

It’s a frustrating experience, and in that moment, your entire collection may seem overwhelming.<\/p>

Something certainly snapped<\/strong> in me when I could not find the mate of my favorite yoga studs. I decided it was time to organize my jewelry box. <\/i><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t

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Actually I can\u2019t find much of anything<\/i> in this jumble!<\/p>

Have you ever had a moment like this?\u00a0 <\/span>You’re in a hurry, getting dressed, and your last step is to grab your jewelry.\u00a0 <\/span>The chances of finding a small matched pair of anything seems pretty dim.<\/p>

Some version of this scene has probably happened to most of us who have been collecting jewelry for more than a week.<\/p>

It’s a frustrating experience, and in that moment, your entire collection may seem overwhelming.<\/p>

Something certainly snapped in me when I could not find the mate of my favorite yoga studs. I decided it was time to organize my jewelry box. <\/i><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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I had been thinking about this for a while. For years it has been all “incoming” and no “outgoing”; things were getting crowded. So I had a goal in mind. My aim was to re-connect with the pleasure<\/i> that my jewelry brings to me. After all, it’s there to make me feel good. And that can’t fully happen when every encounter with my jewelry involves so much darn hunting<\/i>.<\/p>

It was time for a change.<\/p>

Since it would be really gratifying to readily find and wear both<\/i> parts of a pair of earrings at the same time,\u00a0 <\/span>I decided to start with the Earrings category first.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t

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\u00a0The earrings that started it all\u2026.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Yes, I can hear my Marie Kondo of The Life-Changing Magic of<\/span> Tidying Up<\/span> fans saying….why not organize the whole collection? In the same process you can reduce the excess so that you can truly enjoy what you keep. That is Marie’s way and there is a lot to be said for it, of course. It’s comprehensive.\u00a0 <\/span>It’s dramatic. When you’re finished, you are Really Finished. It is entertaining on reality TV.<\/p>

We are definitely going there. In stages.<\/p>

In real life I find it can be practical to break up large or daunting projects into smaller sections. Especially when a project involves an emotional component\u2026like coming face to face with jewelry pieces collected over many years that evoke many memories of myself and my life at various stages. The danger with such loaded projects is that one can become overwhelmed and then may over-react, either abandoning the whole project or going too far and clearing everything out wholesale. Neither of these is a good idea.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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My earrings project will of course<\/strong> likely present the entire range of issues that make jewelry such a notoriously daunting category to address.\u00a0 <\/span>For example, I can expect to encounter:<\/p>

\u2022 broken or damaged pieces<\/p>

\u2022 pieces I collected many years ago that no longer speak to me and that I no longer wear, but they are in good condition and \u201cmight\u201d appeal to me in the future,<\/p>