Earring rack for jewellery store

A couple weeks ago, I remembered that Carol Jones in Victoria had made an earring stand that I always admired. I had kept about 10 of the particular thread spools that she had used and decided I'd like to make one for the jewellery store to go with the jewellery I had made in Linda Austin's workshop.

I only had a vague memory of the stand so I emailed Carol and she was kind enough to send me a picture of it.

So I pulled out one of my thread spools (Mettler).

In keeping with the rest of the display pieces I had already done, I painted the middle section of the spool black.

 Then I used the Krylon gold pen to paint the top and bottom.

 Using photo paper, I cut a bunch of 1/4" x 3/16" pieces for cards to hold the earrings.

For earrings, I started with this piece of stick-on design meant to decorate a cell phone case (from Dollarama). I cut little pieces into earrings and stuck them to the pieces of photo paper.

I also used little sections of the Flower Soft stickers for some earrings and made one pair from the nail decorations below that. (Being white, they didn't work too well as they didn't show up well against the photo paper.)

Here are the ten pairs of earrings I made so far.

And here they are glued in place in the stand. 

I'll need to make a lot more to fill it but I'm off to a good start.

I do have some great nail art pieces that are too big for earrings so I may end up doing earrings on one side of the stand and making brooches for the other side.

Am very pleased with it so far.