Vintage Earring Bracelet

Can you stand another post about jewelry?

I hope so...

I saw a post recently on a blog called Dishfunctional Designs 

about making bracelets out of vintage things like buttons and beach glass and earrings

(click here to see all the amazing ideas)

and thought I would try to make one of my own.

I love costume jewelry- You may remember my collection of vintage basket pins 

or my Christmas tree pins.

Now, it seems, I have gone on to collect earrings.

I went antiquing with Kim of County Line Road on New Years Day.  

It's an annual EVENT for us, something we look forward to every year.  

Click here to see what Kim scored that day....

So Jealous....

I spent our day together sorting through trays of vintage jewelry, looking for earrings that I liked 

and that would coordinate with each other to make a pretty bracelet.  

That was harder than you might think.  

There are a lot of ugly old earrings out there.

I did come up with enough pretty earrings to make four bracelets, 

some in silver tones and some in gold.  

Here are the silver toned earrings- before I started to tear them apart for the bracelet:

Here are the goldtone earrings I collected for this project:

Here's a closeup of some of the silver ones.  So pretty.

Lots of detail in each earring.

Little works of art.

Here's the finished bracelet!

I pried the backs off of each earring and glued them to bracelet blanks 

and then linked them together.

That's as much of a tutorial as I am going to do here.  

I find that pictures of projects in progress are often kind of ugly 

and I certainly can't have that!

The link above to Dishfunctional Designs 

contains all the info you need to make your own.

Of course, I had to add a little charm bead to the end of the chain.  

I did this on the last two bracelets I showed you, too. You can see them here and here.

The charms on the ends make a nice polished look.

I love using vintage things in a new way.  

I would never wear any of these earrings as earrings- too grandma for me- but I will wear this bracelet.  

It sure makes a statement.

  Darling Daughter tells me "Statement" jewelry is all the rage.  

It's good to have these youngsters around to tell us what's cool!


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