Sugru Modified Jewelry Stand

My wife had been complaining about not having a proper place to put her jewelry.  Our place is a wee bit on the small side and her desk gets cluttered easily.  So I was in a clean-up mood and took an keyboard cardboard case and quickly made a cheapie stand up thing for her to put her things on.  I wasn't terribly happy with it because it was just cardboard and not really durable enough to last a year I think, so when Sugru partnered up with Instrucatables, I knew how to replace the temp-stand I had made!

I found a desk paper-holder at a local 'dollar' store here and thought 'hey, this saves me a ton of manual work to make up a stand!  I just have to modify it...with Sugru!"...and other stuff of course.

First thing was that I needed a way to make a 'string' to hang things on that would not fit on small hooks easily.  I had some 'elasticized' string that served the purpose excellently.  I squeezed it through the holes and tied it off. 

I wasn't happy as I knew that those knots would not stay for ever.  I didn't want to just put glue on the end...well, good thing I had something equally useful for that!  Now the ends are neatly secured and I'm not worried that it'll unravel and fling hapless jewelry pieces all over the room.

Next are the hooks!

A simple hand form and 'squish through the grate' method worked here.  I tried to apply some sort of smoothing technique and got some of it somewhat fingerprint free but I was learning as I go in how to properly get Sugru to do as I bid while making it look good.  This whole Sugru Event has been a great learning exercise!  (And yes, I covered the ends after this step technically)