Personalized Jewelry
Most people have pieces of jewelry, memorabilia, or photos from a special person in their life that are just sitting in a drawer. You don't want to get rid of them, because you have great memories associated with them. So, there they sit, never to be seen or shared with anyone else.
A passion of mine is to take those special pieces and re-invent them into an updated style that the wearer would enjoy. It's a beautiful thing to be able to wear something personal. Wearing a special piece created just for you from elements that bring back precious memories, brings you joy. It also gives you an opportunity to share precious memories with others.
It's great to be able to enjoy a special piece in a new way, as a gift to yourself, or to someone else. What a great way to pass along something that was worn by grandma, re-invented to fit a style that a granddaughter would proudly wear for years to come.
It's such a blessing to be able to create a piece of wearable art that touches the heart of the wearer and brings them joy.
Enjoy viewing some examples:
Before:
Two of a Grandmother's necklaces were combined and re-invented into two contemporary necklaces for two granddaughters:
After:
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Two of a mother's pins were re-invented into 2 necklaces:
In process:
Japanese tiny seed beads hand stitehed onto the pin with a tiny needle
After: Wired purple fossil stone beads and Amethyst nuggets, and a wired bail hang on a string of glass seed beads.
2nd pin transformed into a necklace:
Collage of vintage pieces, crystals, glass beads, wired and stitched
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Two of a Dad's old feed sack pins, his well worn wedding ring, and the phesant earrings he gave his wife:
Transformed: into 2 pins
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A Mom and Dad's matching Peridot pin, tie bar, earrings, another tiebar, cuff links,Black hills gold pin, Mother's pin:
Transformed into 1pin, and 1 statement neckpiece ______________________________________________________________
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Photos of a Mom & Dad, Grandparents, Dad and little daughter, Family Farm, and Dad's last photo before cancer.
After:
Photos were collaged with multiple elements and turned into a necklace, and pins for a grown up daughter, and Mom
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A grandma's old unworkable wrist watch, and one photograph of her were the only possessions that her granddaughter had from her.
After:
A collage of deconstructed watch parts, pearls, crystals, and grandma's photograph combined into a broach / or pendant, a bracelet collaged with a vintage earring, wire wrapped pearls, and the watchband, and I also created matching earrings.
