So in my never ending quest to keep ME amused and doing something I have taken up jewelry making. Not silver or gold smithing but I am re-purposing old crummy jewelry into earrings
This venture started when the Daughter told me the Grandkids School will be holding a Craft Fair this coming Fall to raise $$ for the kids activities. She belongs to the Parent Advisory Council and they allowed the Grade 6 Class to have one and it raised a considerably amount so not they're going to formalize it for the entire school.
When she told me this I had just cleaned the closets & boxes and had a pile of old broken "jewels" I have not used since the day of the dinosaur and so it spawned the idea of ME developing a new craft for ME via making earrings. Earrings simply cause they take the least amount of "jewels" and my stock is/was not sufficient for me to make much else. I did have to buy some findings (i.e. ear wires) plus I did buy the little cards to put the earrings on as other to keep sorted as otherwise I'd have just another box of jewels all mixed and messed up.
So far I've made probably 40 or so sets of earrings but these are a few:
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Most of what I'm making are 1 or 2 offs as I don't have sufficient glass stones or glass beads to make more.
The secondary bonus of this new hobby is that I've now started cruising the Thrift Shops looking for OLD necklaces & bracelets that have at least 2 decent glass beads. Mostly I looking for crystal glass or just glass beads and light stone beads. Is my latest hunt
Am quite enjoying making these (just hope they sell at the kids Craft Sale this Fall)
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