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My first (very) minor jewelery hack
Mar. 15th, 2011 11:41 amA few weeks ago, there was a Steampunk event in Dublin. I had intended to go to it, and I had also intended to take a dive into making a bit of jewelery for it.
This involved some leather strip, some nuts from a hardware store, and some findings that I got in Beads'n'Bling. Me being me, I managed to lose the leather, so I couldn't make the choker I had intended. It didn't matter that much as, due to a busy week, I missed the event anyway. I still have all the materials, with the nuts littering my room, and the leather being... somewhere.
Anyway, I have a pendant that a friend gave me. It's really worn and the clasp was slightly broken (the main latch was chipped), but I wanted to inject some new life into it. This morning, on a whim, I decided I'd fix up the problem by replacing the latch, given that I'd recently bought a bag of 50 of them.
For reasons I've long since forgotten, I have a pair of pliers on the shelf above my bed (I think it's from the last time I had notions about trying to make jewelery) - they're from Maplins, but they seem to be the same as a pair that I got in a magazine one time, except with a better grip. Using those, I opened up the jump ring, and replaced the latch with minimum difficulty.
Wearing it now, it somehow feels more secure, although that may just be a psychological effect from knowing that I made it more secure.
Yes; I know this barely qualifies as anything on pretty much any scale, but it's a start in the right direction, and it's something I did for myself with materials that I had. It's a feeling I've forgotten until recently, and it feels good.
Now, to put that huge roll of cat-5, rj45 crimpers and heads to good use.
This involved some leather strip, some nuts from a hardware store, and some findings that I got in Beads'n'Bling. Me being me, I managed to lose the leather, so I couldn't make the choker I had intended. It didn't matter that much as, due to a busy week, I missed the event anyway. I still have all the materials, with the nuts littering my room, and the leather being... somewhere.
Anyway, I have a pendant that a friend gave me. It's really worn and the clasp was slightly broken (the main latch was chipped), but I wanted to inject some new life into it. This morning, on a whim, I decided I'd fix up the problem by replacing the latch, given that I'd recently bought a bag of 50 of them.
For reasons I've long since forgotten, I have a pair of pliers on the shelf above my bed (I think it's from the last time I had notions about trying to make jewelery) - they're from Maplins, but they seem to be the same as a pair that I got in a magazine one time, except with a better grip. Using those, I opened up the jump ring, and replaced the latch with minimum difficulty.
Wearing it now, it somehow feels more secure, although that may just be a psychological effect from knowing that I made it more secure.
Yes; I know this barely qualifies as anything on pretty much any scale, but it's a start in the right direction, and it's something I did for myself with materials that I had. It's a feeling I've forgotten until recently, and it feels good.
Now, to put that huge roll of cat-5, rj45 crimpers and heads to good use.
