New Display Idea

Yesterday was sort of clean up day – I did two repair jobs I wanted to get done, a commission that needs to get sent out in the mail, my week 6 Year of Jewelry entry (I’m a week behind, yikes!), and a display idea I’ve been playing around with.

I am taking some jewelry to a local winery, Breezy Hills Vineyard, and instead of the usual boring black velvet displays, I wanted something more fun and appropriate to the winery atmosphere.

Enlisted hubby’s creative mind (he’s good at bouncing ideas back at me) and came up with the display at left. Unfortunately, photos don’t really do it justice, but I really, really like the way it turned out. The only thing I’d like to add is lighting, but I’m not sure at this point if the winery can support that or not.

To start with, I used two empty wine bottles from the winery, a couple of hunks of viney-garland wound around each. The mid section is a 36″ piece of aluminum that was bent into two “posts” to sit inside the wine bottles and suspend between them, a little like a clothesline. I curved the “clothesline” so that it has a little more depth (that’s what’s a little hard to see in the photo), and used ornament hangers to hang bracelets and shorter necklaces from it.

Viola! an inexpensive, interesting display that can be altered for whatever purpose you want – if you don’t want to “promote” wine, you can use interesting bottles from other foods – how about olive oil or regional syrups (clean out the bottles really well first!) or a couple of heavier glass bud vases with smaller necks.

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