Vintage Jewelry Components

The jewelry components that you use such as beads and pendants don’t necessarily have to be brand new. Occasionally that vintage feel makes your jewelry much more tempting. Don’t be afraid to venture into non-traditional sources when it comes to these.

Garage sales are some sources that you can check out. It is not weird for people to sell pieces of their damaged jewelry and likelihood is you could buy them for inexpensive. Use your brains to mix ‘n match the pieces that you bought or you might even use them along with other stuff that you already have in your component collection.

The items that you find in garage sales will most commonly be old ones so you might even find an antique bead or pendant which will just need a bit of cleaning to bring back its old gorgeous shine. Infrequently houses would have collective garage sales and this is an excellent chance for you to scout more potential finds.

You could most likely find old costume jewelry from your garage sale visit. While these by themselves might not be as good as what you have in mind, you can still mix them up with some top quality beads to give it that special look. Plastic beads, for instance, look actually good with silver bracelets. Experiment on mixing and you’ll have a more flexible collection.

Beads and pendants aren’t the only components that you’ll be able to find from old jewelry. It’s more than likely that you’re going to find clasps from broken accessories and you can reuse these for your new creations. Just make sure that they are still working. You may also work with old strings and old earring fittings.

Garage sales are not the sole potential source of jewelry components. You could even find some in your own house. If you are like me, you would have bits of old jewelry lying around waiting for you to mend them one day. Well they do not have to wait for that day anymore ; you can just reuse them to make other ones. There’s a reason you were holding on to those pieces in the 1st place ; it may be that lovely pendant or those unique beads. You might even ask your mom or even your gramps if they’ve got some old jewelry lying around.

So don’t overlook the potentiality of old jewelry. It is usually fun to mix the old with the new and see what you can produce out of them.

Vintage Jewelry Components