{"id":6732,"date":"2016-06-18T10:31:22","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T16:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=6732"},"modified":"2016-11-04T13:19:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T11:19:50","slug":"soapbox-travel-earring-organiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/soapbox-travel-earring-organiser\/","title":{"rendered":"Soapbox Travel Earring Organiser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like to wear earrings and thanks to my winters in\u00a0Mexico, I&#8217;ve accumulated quite a few pairs, none of which are valuable! I knew I didn&#8217;t want to leave without them as they would add some much needed variety to my outfits. I didn&#8217;t like any of the travel earring organisers I found online, like rolls, as they would not protect my earrings. I wanted something compact that I could throw around and not worry about, but also provide easy access to the earrings.<\/p>\n<p>When I saw a soapbox at a thrift store, I had an epiphany. A standard soapbox has a small footprint and the lid fits tightly. I&#8217;d bought some thin layers of foam for another project while I was in\u00a0Mexico and that seemed perfect for the inside. I pressed the bottom of the box into the foam to get its outline and then cut several layers.<\/p>\n<p>I started with a bottom layer for loose items:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6647\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMGP4155.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6647\" class=\"wp-image-6647 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMGP4155.jpg\" alt=\"IMGP4155\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMGP4155.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMGP4155-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMGP4155-619x464.jpg 619w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6647\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bottom layer has loose items.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Then, I simply poked my earrings through a couple more layers:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6645\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMGP4152.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6645\" class=\"wp-image-6645 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMGP4152.jpg\" alt=\"IMGP4152\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMGP4152.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMGP4152-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMGP4152-619x464.jpg 619w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6645\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">First layer of earrings. There may be more on it now&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_6646\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMGP4154.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6646\" class=\"wp-image-6646 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMGP4154.jpg\" alt=\"IMGP4154\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMGP4154.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMGP4154-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMGP4154-619x464.jpg 619w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6646\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Second layer of earrings.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I protected the top layer of earrings with another layer of foam:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6648\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMGP4156.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6648\" class=\"wp-image-6648 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMGP4156.jpg\" alt=\"IMGP4156\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMGP4156.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMGP4156-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMGP4156-619x464.jpg 619w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6648\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Piece of foam over top.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And here it is all closed up:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6649\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMGP4157.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6649\" class=\"wp-image-6649 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMGP4157.jpg\" alt=\"IMGP4157\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMGP4157.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMGP4157-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMGP4157-619x464.jpg 619w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6649\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">And the cover&#8217;s on.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I found the perfect place for my organiser to travel to use up some dead space in my suitcase. More on that later. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like to wear earrings and thanks to my winters in\u00a0Mexico, I&#8217;ve accumulated quite a few pairs, none of which are valuable! I knew I didn&#8217;t want to leave without them as they would add some much needed variety to my outfits. I didn&#8217;t like any of the travel earring organisers I found online, like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[632,4,635,807,3],"tags":[911],"class_list":["post-6732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-haven","category-north-america","category-saskatchewan","category-travel","tag-packingluggage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}