Taking Old Jewelry and Turning It Into New Jewelry

I had gotten a ton of antique clip on earrings that were from my grandmother and great grandmother. They were beautiful but they hurt my ears so I couldn’t wear them.  So I took them apart and used them to make a beautiful antique styled bracelet. 

 I liked the rectangle ones I loved the colors.  I noticed they had holes on the sides so I decided to turn them into beads. So I took them apart. Using pliers I took off the part of the earrings that clip on to your ears. You just wiggle them a little back and forth and they come right off.

Then I took a pink clip on earring and using wire cutters cut the wire in between the beads and took them apart. I used the pink beads to make earrings which I will another tutorial on how to make earrings later.

  I noticed the back of the earring had this beautiful snowflake like pattern to it. So I turned it into a charm
Again using pliers I took off the part of the earrings that clip on to your ears. Wiggle them a little back and forth and they come right off.

Using the pliers bend the extra metal in towards itself creating a loop you may have to straighten it out and adjust it a little. The metal was very flimsy and easy to bend.

Then I took a necklace. Cut the string and took off the beads. 

Using the clip on earing and the beads from the necklace and some other beads laying around and  I arranged it how I wanted it.

            Then I strung them with elastic. I strung a piece of elastic through the top left row, strung it trough a crimping bead, then through on of the holes of the rectangle bead, then back through the crimping bead and using crimping pliers squeezed it shut. I repeated this for the second row. I repeated this for the top row of the middle section and the bottom. Then I repeated it for the top and bottom row of the right side.  Then take the ends of the top row and square knot them together. Then take the ends of the bottom row and square knot them together. It is recommended that you put a drop of glue on the knots to seal them.

Voilà! your finished product is a brand new antique styled bracelet.

DIY, cheap, silhouette, home décor

Instead of paying close to $50 for a large canvas, I went to Ikea and bought a plan white table top 29 in.X 34 in. for $5.99. Then I used Americana Lamp Black acrylic paint which is $1- $2 a tube. I fee handed the design. After 24 hours I’m going to spray a clear seal on it to help the paint last longer and protect it a little better. It took me a little less than two hours to do.

Silhouettes are classic and can fit into almost any room. You can use whatever colors you want for the design. And any shapes to match any theme.

Miss Jade's Spider Threads Fashion Lookbook

 My good friend Heather Sanders Photography and I  put together a fashion look book.

The shoes and bags are mine. 

The models are my friends Sammie Schneider and Kim Schnabel.

The makeup was done by my wonderful friend and mentor Teresa Cash.

Flats

I found some white flats from Wal-Mart for a super low price of $7.00. Then I drew on them with sharpies. They have a really nice glossy finish to them that the canvases shoes don’t have. Flats are very versatile you can wear them with jeans and dress them down a bit or you can wear them with a dress to dress them down bit still look classy.

What To Do With Your Broken Jewelry

    Every time I get a pixie cut I always feel like I have to go buy a ton of hair accessories to make me feel more girly. In stead of paying $6-12 on a bow I found some broken jewelry lying around and made hair accessories.

Things you will need

           

• Something for the middle- I used pendants from my broken jewelry. You don’t have to, you could use beads, reign stones, buttons, toys, ect.
• Lace- I just used some I had lying around the house. You can buy lace from any craft store or fabric store.
• Light fabric- I used felt just because that’s what I had laying around.
• Needle and thread
• Hot glue gun
• A clip- You can also buy these from any craft stores. I bought mine from Joanne’s a pack of 5 for like $1.95
• Alt to the clip a pin back if you would rather make pins rather than hair accessories.

Step one

Take your needle and thread and make loose stitches across the bottom of the lace. Then push the lace towards the end of the knot, make it scrunches together. Till you feel your flower is full enough. Different kinds of lace will make different styles of flowers.  Tie a knot and cut off the left over thread.

Step two

Cut a circle from your fabric. Big enough to put your lace flower on but not big enough to be really noticeable. It doesn’t have to be perfectly round its just going to be the base; no one will be able to see it.

Step three

Hot glue your lace flower to the fabric circle. Try to center it.

Step four

Hot glue your pendant to the center of the lace flower.

Step five

Hot glue the clip or pin back to the back.

TA DAH!

You can also clip your hair pieces to heels, flats, or bags to give them some extra flair.

I will do another tutorial  on how to do the pink bow soon.

Spider Threads by Miss Jade's is now doing tote bags!
Tote bags are nice because you don't need a specific size like you do with shoes. Every woman needs a tote bag and cant have to many. They take about two hours to do instead of four hours like the shoes. Here are some tote bags Ive already done.

                                                          

  

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If you would like a custom tote bag please contact me. :)

Decorating Luggage

 We have had this old suit case laying around the house forever.  I saw it the other day and  immediately thought that poppies belonged on it. After I painted the poppies I realized that they needed some magical fairy dust. 

 I love drawing and painting on old every day objects and making  them more interesting.