Happy Friday to all! There have been some recent
shop updates, and I wanted to share a few of them with you lovely peeps...
Statement necklaces - Oh my!
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| The Women vintage photo statement necklace |
I had this crazy idea to make a necklace just completely loaded with vintage people. So loaded that there wasn't much room for anything else. So I started making these "statement necklaces" and they just make me laugh as I build them - they're so ridiculously fun!
The Women features 21 charms of various sizes, ranging from 1/2 and inch to 1 inch in diameter, each depicting a female from the time period of around the 1900's to the 1960's. There are a few charms that feature ivory lace here and there with crystals and faux pearls in between.
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| The Women vintage photo statement necklace |
These necklaces are actually very comfortable to wear - the charms lie flat around your neck, sort of like a collar. These are especially great if you want strangers to stand very close to you and stare at your neck - a perfect ice-breaker!
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The Women (detail)
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| Military Men (detail) |
I don't know why, but I seem to collect a lot of military pictures. I wanted to see them all together in one great big necklace, and I love the way it turned out!
Military Men has 21 charms showing soldiers, sailors, air men, airplanes, submarines, even a small child in uniform! There are a couple of decorative paper maps thrown in there, and a limited color palette of black, which sepia, grey and teal ties everything together.
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| Military Men vintage photo statement necklace |
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Military Men vintage photo statement necklace
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Finally, something for the men!
I've tried cufflinks in the past, but these are completely new designs that I really love. To accompany my line of customizable heirloom jewelry, I've introduced
heirloom cufflinks - easy to have customized with your own family member's portrait! These would be ideal gifts for weddings, anniversaries, to celebrate a new job, birthdays, you name it! I never destroy the original image when making my jewelry and accessories - instead, I work on very high resolution digital scans so your treasured family photographs are kept safe and sound.
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| Heirloom Photo Accessories to Customize - men's antiqued brass cufflinks |
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lace cufflinks would be perfect when outfitting a wedding party - these would make awesome groomsmen gifts! Although the pictured cufflinks are shown featuring a pale green background, I can include any color to tie in with wedding colors perfectly. I can even use lace from the bride's dress. I like that the lace softens the cufflinks.
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| Pale Green & Ivory Lace Cufflinks |
Although both of these cufflink pairs are shown in an antiqued brass finish, either could be done in a silver-plate finish.
The holidays are coming...
I know, I know, December is still a ways off, but the holidays are indeed coming and will be here before we know it. (Ahem,
3 months, ahem.) With that in mind, I've made a few
holiday ornaments out of teeny tiny collages - each measures about an inch in diameter and comes hanging from a silver ribbon. Click any of the captions to be taken to the listing.
I'd love to see a little table-top tree completely decked out in these ornaments with some beautiful vintage glass baubles mixed in. Don't you think that would look fantastic?!
