Posts tagged with 'vintage_jewelry'

  • One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

    POSTED BY LESLIE TODD, NOVEMBER 05 2007 08:00 AM | PERMALINK

    Do you have some vintage clip-on earrings? Instead of wearing them on your ears, put them on some shoe clip findings and clip them on your stilettos or flats for a fresh look. It's a great way to stretch your shoe budget. Here's one I did with vintage earrings:

     

     

    Same shoe, different look:

     

     

    Craft Supplies Online has some shoe clip findings. remove the clip back from your old earrings and wire the front onto the shoe clip finding and voila!

     

     

    Once a staple of every wardrobe, shoe...

  • From Pin to Pendant

    POSTED BY LESLIE TODD, NOVEMBER 02 2007 08:00 AM | PERMALINK

    Peggy's clutch purse idea on episode 8 of metalchik reminded me of these pin converters that I had seen:

     

     

    They're available from Fire Mountain Gems (look in findings under bails, pin converters). If you would rather wear your vintage pin as a pendant slip the tube of the converter over the pin stem, run a chain through the bail or bead a matching necklace, and you're done.

    Or you can make your own pin converter by wrapping a little wire around a mandrel a little bigger than the pin stem....