Saint Salvage

I found this cute pair of vintage cone shaped pierced earrings at one of my favorite local thrift shops: Kathleen's Closet . Their sales support the  Community Food Bank of NJ . I love finding bargains that help the Food Bank and other helping organizations. I bought this pair with the plan of using this as part of a DIY. I had these fringe beads sitting in my stash... they turned to be perfect for this quickie DIY. I bought them last year on clearance from  Michaels . I selected the brown, black, red and silver fringe bead strands because they were the only duplicate colors. I took them off the chain, and separated them; one for each side. I took a gold tone head pin and threaded it through the top of each cone. I threaded the beaded strands onto each head pin. Then, I curled each wire and trimmed them. Last step... I bent the wire back up into the cone. Here I am, modeling my new creation. Not bad for about 10 minutes of...

It's stash busting time.... I have a pile of worn out jeans, and I've been pinning "like crazy" on my Pinterest board "Forever in blue jeans" . So, I decided to start small. I wanted to make earrings out of the rivets!     This pair follows the same procedure as yesterday, but it's a pair of torn up black Versace Couture jeans.   (BTW.... a mint pair is for sale by other vendor on  Etsy for $130.)     Mine is below.   Close up on the rivets before removal:   Again, glue: Backs:     Finished product; ready to wear. I made two pair, and have lots of scrap.   Close up of the studs: Here's the donor pair; a torn-up pair from my boys. It was Old Navy.

It's stash busting time.... I have a pile of worn out jeans, and I've been pinning "like crazy" on my Pinterest board "Forever in blue jeans" . So, I decided to start small. I wanted to make earrings out of the rivets!   Here's the donor pair; a torn-up pair from my boys. It was Old Navy.     Close up of the "1994" rivet:   Brand new posts.   Rivet trimmed with a little bit of denim.   Two sets, all prepped for the application of glue:   Here's the final product, on punched card stock, with my business card info. Hey, it's multi-purpose: a display and a marketing tool.   Here's the close up of the earrings on the card.

This project started with a pair of tangerine orange "fireworks" style clip-on earrings that I got at an estate sale.       As you can see, the beads are on head and eye pins that are secured to a circular metal screen backing. They have clip on backs that are corroded! Yuck!!!   I don't know exactly when they were made. I suspect 50s / 60s era.   They were made in Japan.   I cut off the clip on backs and epoxied on new silver pierced backs.   Good as new! Saint Salvage strikes again!