Little Life of Mine: MADE: Ring Display

y'all. I'm still alive. Alive and well, no less! And I made something today! WOOHOO! My creative muse has been coming and going for a while now and she left on an extended vacation it seems. But, I think she is back. I've been tucking little Pinterest ideas away for my future show for a while now. I even have a board dedicated to the ones I like, but I have not actually made any of them until today.... I hated the way I had my rings at every show last year. I had them on a tray one time, in a bowl another time, and then a basket. None of those felt right. I needed a display. A proper ring display...but I never found one to buy that I really loved. Insert: Pinterest. The first idea was this pin. A shoe and rings? Hello. Perfect. But then I never found a shoe that I really loved enough to use. This second pin that I found seemed more perfect. And do-able! I hunted for a frame and ultimately found this one at Hobby Lobby (all their frames are 50% everyday!) that was perfect and went to town...Here's how I did it in pictures:

The important thing to look for in a frame is a deep glass setting. The way that I built mine is so that I can just take this ring insert out and change up the fabric and such so having the glass set-in about an inch really was a requirement. I think it is important to note that I didn't take the glass out either, it is still in behind the insert.

This is my frame, head on. I really liked the scroll accents. It suits my shabby-chic-ness of my other displays.

This is the picture that I sent to a few friends to see which fabric they thought I should use. We all said the same thing, the right fabric was the one to use!

I don't remember where I saw it, but foam hair curlers are a life saver in this project!! Instead of trying to roll up foam or felt or anything, just use the curlers! I had to lay them out inside the frame to see how I wanted the rings to be displayed.

I decided to use the frame sideways, this will mean that I need to find a different back so that I have a support but that's small apples to worry about! haha

Now this is the awkward part. I cut my fabric to be just under an inch past the edge of each row and left it quite a bit long since I didn't know how much would be needed to go around each row. I glued three curlers together, end to end to make up a row. Then I glued the curlers to the fabric. I forgot to take a picture of it, but I took the edge of the fabric and glued it to my first row. Then I brought the fabric all the way around so that the edge touched the fold of the fabric going back to get to the next curler. I did this because you have to be able to sit the rings in between the curlers, you don't want to glue the fabric to itself and lost that ability.