What To Do With Broken Jewelry

What can you do with broken jewelry?

Save broken and mismatched jewelry

Recycle Old and Broken Bead Jewelry into New Re-purposed Creations

Whether you purchased your stash of broken, tangled or unwanted 
jewelry from a thrift store, inherited it from a relative or dug it out of 
your own jewelry box, finding a reuse idea can be a challenge.  

Here's some inspiration for you!   

Attach jewelry to candles

What a beautiful gift this makes!

                Why not look for vintage jewelry pieces that can be re-purposed                     into a new eco-friendly creation?

           

Glue jewelry to plain metal or wood napkin rings 

~OR~ 

simply tie onto a new elastic hair band 

 Embellishing with jewelry is SO easy...

                                                      

           

Dress up plain pillows into OOH-LA-LA pillows!   

                             Even Frames!

The possibilities are endless.  Need more inspiration?  Have you heard of Pinterest? If you haven't, you're missing out!  Pinterest is a pinboard-style photo sharing website. It's free to sign up and use.  Here you can search for "broken jewelry" and wa-lah, you will have photos of more projects and ideas than ever imagined.      Enjoy!

See my own recycled jewelry HERE

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Until next time, keep charm hunting!                                  

-Susan, aka the Charm Hunter

                                                                          

Spring showers bring May flowers...

And who doesn't like roses?  I saw the most beautiful rose print pendant 
under glass on pinterest.  Have you heard of this photo idea sharing site?  
It's addicting, let me tell you, but it has an abundance of useful ideas.  
Some photos have links to additional information, others do not.  
The pendant I saw did not have a source or tutorial attached to it, 
but I figured out how to make my own and you can too! 

You can use salvaged chandelier pieces, buy individual crystals on etsy or purchase a set in your local craft store from Tim Holtz brand.

place prism over desired image to fit
I used a magazine image of a bouquet of roses

cut image to fit back side slightly smaller
than the prism itself; punch hole through
the image with a needle to meet the
hole already in your prism

  

paint adhesive on back of prism,
place paper image so the image
  shows through the front.                                                                                  

OK, pretty simple so far.  Once you've cut out your image to fit slightly smaller than your prism, 

glue to the underneath side. Usea needle to poke a hole through the paper to the hole already on 

your prism.  Coat another layer of glue to the back.  At this point you can glue another final cut 

out paper to the back side that will serve as your backside.  This can be script from a book, bible, 

magazine, song sheet or just pretty (or plain) patterned paper.  Thinner paper is easier to work 

with.  Follow the same procedure by adding a heavy coat of adhesive and punching a hole through.

The adhesive will dry clear, even though it goes on thick and milky.  (You may need to press down

some ends of the paper to help adhere)

meticulously wrap and trim in copper foil

   

This is where you can take your 

project to the next level.   The 

pendant is beautiful as is, but I    

L O V E   to solder.  Silver 

soldering not only adds value, 

but it's that hand made one-of-a-kind 

artisan look that  I'm looing for.

completely encase flat back

solder away!

beautiful shapes and sizes are available to experiment with

You can embellish with rhinestones as shown here and use a variety
of chains & necklaces to showcase your piece
B E A U T I F U L

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