VINTAGE GOODNESS

Love this old brooch and as I'm not much of a brooch wearer thought a would turn
it in to a necklace......

Just back from a fabulous trip to New York City where I got to go to a FLEA MARKET!!!!

Forget Broadway and 5th Avenue the flea market was first place to go on this girl's wish list!!!!

Oh what lucky ducks you east coasters are to have such fabulous old treasures in abundance!!!



Happy day!

xojanis

To select well among old things, is almost equal to inventing new ones. - Nicholas Charles Trublet



PIECES OF JUNK NECKLACE

Yesterday I was sorting through some bits and pieces of leftover junk I have accumulated and decided to use some of the pieces in a vintage re-designed necklace.

 The center piece is a vintage ?rhinestone ring that came in a bag of jewelry I bought......I was ready to send it back to the thrift store, but wondered how it would look incorporated in to a necklace.

I used the ring as a base to hang all my little trinkets from.  The trinkets are an assortment of vintage earrings, chandelier crystals, beads and rosary crosses. 

 Three layered chains.

I love this combination of pieces of junk!

Happy day!

Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.  ~William Morris

xojanis

VINTAGE RE-DESIGNED BRACELET

Here's another bracelet made from re-designed vintage elements that I just finished up for a customer.

 This bracelet was created from two old vintage rhinestone bracelets, beads from an old rosary and small chandelier crystals.  The round center bead is a gorgeous ball embedded with rhinestones....it is from an old necklace found at a thrift store.

Happy day!
xojanis