Use for odds and ends of jewelry?
- Thread starter amandainvermont
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Please just do this with "orphan" earrings if there is no hope of finding the mate and pieces that are low-end and/or damaged. Pin stems and clasps can be replaced and bracelet catches can be fixed. I think the pair of aqua earrings shown about is actually quite nice.
Someone on a jewelry list I was one used to host an "orphan" site where people who were looking for a mate to a single earring could find it! I don't think there is anything like that now but post to this forum and maybe someone will have the mate - or the pin to match, etc.
I have no problem with recyling costume jewelry but I hate to see anything with value or that is wearable turned into a drawer pull or picture frame!
Linn
Someone on a jewelry list I was one used to host an "orphan" site where people who were looking for a mate to a single earring could find it! I don't think there is anything like that now but post to this forum and maybe someone will have the mate - or the pin to match, etc.
I have no problem with recyling costume jewelry but I hate to see anything with value or that is wearable turned into a drawer pull or picture frame!
Linn
i LIKE 'em!
not my cup of tea, either, but think they do look neat.
not my cup of tea, either, but think they do look neat.
APrizeEveryTime
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I kind of like the blue one, too. And the gold and black one in the back.
These really remind me of the stuff my grade school friend Miriam's mother would make in the early 60s. She made those Sputnik-style Christmas ornaments out of styrofoam balls with symmetrically placed hatpins and beads and sequins. The centerpiece for the table for all of Miriam's birthday parties was a row of fancy clear vases with water, food coloring, a little baking soda and citric acid crystals and a handful of mothballs. Each vase had a different color of bubbly liquid, and the mothballs "danced" up and down, up and down, for several hours. She also made personalized curler hampers as gifts out of lace-trimmed, scalloped confetti plastic girlie buckets onto which she had handprinted the recipient's name in block letters with nail polish.
Oh, dear, I hope no one here would want to throttle me for this. The cupboard and drawer pulls in my kitchen are vintage billiard balls.
These really remind me of the stuff my grade school friend Miriam's mother would make in the early 60s. She made those Sputnik-style Christmas ornaments out of styrofoam balls with symmetrically placed hatpins and beads and sequins. The centerpiece for the table for all of Miriam's birthday parties was a row of fancy clear vases with water, food coloring, a little baking soda and citric acid crystals and a handful of mothballs. Each vase had a different color of bubbly liquid, and the mothballs "danced" up and down, up and down, for several hours. She also made personalized curler hampers as gifts out of lace-trimmed, scalloped confetti plastic girlie buckets onto which she had handprinted the recipient's name in block letters with nail polish.
Oh, dear, I hope no one here would want to throttle me for this. The cupboard and drawer pulls in my kitchen are vintage billiard balls.