Monday, January 25, 2010

{DIY Day}

DIY
Today starts one of the several DIY projects that I plan to share with you. DIY projects are great because there is no other way to show ingenuity and inspiration than doing a project on your own. There's something about making one-of-a-kind pieces that are not available to the masses. Today's project is a necklace that I purchased in LA at Madewell 1937, which is the casual sister company to J.Crew.
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At first glance I immediately loved the various silver and gunmetal chains, and of course the crystal clusters, but I didn't care for the green neon beads dispersed around the necklace. But because the necklace was on sale, and I really liked it, I decided to buy and reconstruct it.
Neon green beads and crystals
I started with taking apart the entire necklace by cutting the wire and removing the neon green beads (as shown below)
Trio of destruction
Once I had the necklace completely taken apart, I took some time to figure out how I wanted it to look. While at Madewell 1937 I saw another necklace (much more expensive, btw) that had the crystals clustered together on one side and strings of chain on the other. So to create the-look-for-less, I started to wire all of the pieces back together...
putting necklace back together
...and here's the final piece!!!
final piece
So...what do you think? Please leave a comment - I would love to hear your thoughts!
Final Signature




5 comments:

  1. MUCH better! You're like me, you can see the potential in something. Now what are you going to do with those ghastly green beads?

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  2. Wow! What a transformation. I definitley like the second necklace better than the first!

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  3. I just stumbled across your blog and think it's fantastic. Tell me more about Modage.

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  4. Great idea I really like it. Just last evening I taught myself how to make a viking knit chain, once you figure out how to get started it really isn't too bad. I'm going to share how to make one on my blog this week. I love DIY

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