Hello there! Hope you are well and dandy! I am great, despite cold and tiredness!!!
This weekend, I accidently knocked my entire earring box all over the floor! This was good as it led me to actually sort it out and I finally decided to do some repairs on broken jewellery using my jewellery-making pliers and jump rings etc! It also led me to find a better solution for storing my chain necklaces which I hope might help you!
This necklace broke around a year ago! I fixed a new jump ring to get it back together- it's the wrong colour (silver rather than hematite coloured) but it works!
These 5 earrings were all broken, they'd lost their earring backs or a jump ring or something and so I made them whole again! Hurrah, I've had these parrot earrings since I was 11!!!
Short of buying a soldering-iron, nothing could be done for the twin of this earring- the ring had come off and no way of attaching it so I took the remaining earring and removed the earring setting and fixed it with a jump-ring so it could become a pendant. The broken earring can be upcycled into a pretty brooch or a decoration for a jewellery box.
Since I had the jewellery stuff out, I finally got around to making a pair of tea-cup earrings from this doll's teaset I bought in a Marie Curie charity shop a while back. I bought them before Accessorize and Primark did their ones so I did think of this before them! I tried attaching silver bows at the top but I cannot tie straight bows so this was a failure! Still, they're cute!
As I was sorting jewellery out, I decided to try and do something about the tangle of chain necklaces and thought of a solution. I bought some more pins for my cork-board and stuck these in two staggered lines. Each necklace then has it's own peg like a school cloakroom where hopefully they wont get into tangles or tussles.
I did think though, that I really shouldn't buy anymore necklaces...
as this is just the chain type ones...
Still, do you think this is a fairly cheap and easy necklaces storage solution?
Ciao bella!
