Pretty in Pink

I just got a box of good old jewelry junk and repurposed 3 bracelets with new life. The first one had pretty but plain enameling with beautiful spring colors of pink, purple, slate and yellow.


I also acquired a lot of old thermoset moonglow pieces in wonderful colors that I thought would work well with this bracelet building on the enamel base pieces. Coro and Trifari used thermoset a lot back in the 50's and 60's in their jewelry designs. I just love the rich colors and spread the pieces around the bracelet like a paint box and started building the design. I applied E-6000 glue with a craft stick. Use the glue sparingly because we don't want it to show in the design.







I finished off the design by accenting with beautiful fuscia flat back Swarovski crystals.

Garden Trellis Necklace

I found a wonderful old casting that I repurposed into a new design. Here is how it looked before I started:










I painted the flowers with alcohol inks and then sprayed a sealer to hold the colors. I then got busy gluing lots of rhinestones and added more porcelain flowers. Pink and purple were my focus colors. I layered the trellis piece onto a filigree finding. I then created a multistrand necklace with rosary and base metal chain. Here's my new design:

Another Brimfield Treasure

Here is the Hollycraft 1958 brooch and bracelet set I got at Brimfield. The epitome of 50's glam.

My Brimfield Creative Treasures

There was not a lot of affordable vintage findings but I did find a few things I can work with. I purchased a lot of wonderful old Pakastani Kuchi pendants that I've started to repurpose (see the pendant on the right) by removing the original cloudy rhinestones and replacing with new stones. It takes a lot of soaking in acetone and scraping of old glue with a dental instrument but the end results are terrific.





I also found Art 1200 Dentelles in a few vibrant colors that will fit beautifully in my jewelry designs.

My Brimfield Treasures

I found two lovely Heidi Daus necklaces for under $100. These will go nicely with my Heid Daus ring. Her pieces are so vintage looking and elegant.

Recycled Jewelry Artist

I met a fabulous jewelry artist at Brimfield. Her name is Roberta Enhus from W. Boylston, MA and she goes by Black Rose Creations. Her jewelry was all made from recycled materials and she too likes to give life to old jewelry in new designs. This is a sample of her creative designs.

Brimfield Sites

Home of the famous "Pilgrim Sandwich"

There were lots of girlie things and other unique items to see at Brimfield

Brimfield Bling

I have been shamefully neglectful of my blog and decided to share my first ever experience at the Brimfield Antique Show. This is a huge event that comes to my area 3 times per year and attracts over 5,000 dealers and 250,000 visitors. I went with the idea of purchasing pretty vintage jewelry pieces and hoping to find vintage jewelry findings for my own creations. I found wonderful designer pieces and dealers were almost always willing to negotiate a price although many collectible pieces were out of my price range. The asking price for Larry Vrba piece was $600 and just to rich for my purse.

Jewelry Glam at the 2009 Oscars

The 2009 Academy Awards were held on 2/22/09 bringing out the best of Hollywood glam!

New Artfire Store

I haven't posted for awhile. I spend today creating a new Artfire store. I'm torn as to where to sell my vintage jewelry supplies. I've had a good year with Etsy and the exposure is great but the selling fees for Artfire are so good. Artfire seems to be growing. We'll see where it goes.