Published 8 October 2015 ● Last Updated on 25 November 2016
You don’t have to be a craftster to execute these ridiculously easy ways of reusing your old junk jewelry! With vintage and retro ruling the home decor wave, it makes perfect sense to use fashion statements from your past as style statements in your house. Here are my favourite four repurposing ideas, all tried and tested:
Pendants from the yesteryears? How charming!
Once upon a time, Madonna wore hoops, and I wore hoops and all my friends wore hoops, and if you don’t know Italian yet still know what La Isla Bonita means, you wore hoops too. Point being, if you still have them hoops stored somewhere (as I did), time to get them out! Else head to your neighborhood crafts store to by a box (if you are in Singapore head to Spotlight); bead in your old pendants; and voila! – your wine charms are ready!
Tip: Use fragile silver pendants if you can – they match beautifully against the delicate wine glass stems.
Im-pair-ed earrings? Pair them with lace!
Whether you’ve partied and danced hard, or not, you are bound to have a bunch of singles in your closet – danglers left pairless, that you are still holding on to – perhaps hoping to find the match some day behind the bed frame when you finally get around to cleaning it, or maybe for some sentimental Cinderella-ish reason, or most likely, just out of sheer laziness!
Never mind why, time to stop discriminating against them and put them back on display! Here’s how: Take an empty glass-less picture frame, staple lace across the back, hook those gems through… and find a place to hang / stand the display! My collection below shows my enthusiasm for a variety in materials – ethnic dangle earrings made out of a silver, metal, jute, glass, quartz, terracotta and semi-precious stone.
Tip: Try to weave a story from your collection. For instance, if you are in the habit of buying pieces while you travel, use the frame as a souvenir board, displaying eclectic pieces from your trips across the world.
Outgrown the style? Pin it up!
Flamboyant studs, studs you bought when you were few beers down, studs you were gifted by people who have no idea about your taste in studs, studs that you thought you could rock but sadly couldn’t, studs that you’ve overused, studs that you plan to underuse, and frankly, just about any types of studs – as long as they have sharp piercings – can all find a perfect perch on a cork board.
Pinboards are boring things with boring lists, unless you see them on Pinterest (in which case they all belong to designers who are pinning up Pinterest photos as inspirations). So they can really use the jazzing up by a mismatched variety of earrings with their varying textures and colors.
Tip: pin the result after you follow this tip!
Too chunky to wear? Just hang it!
I love chunky necklaces, truly. The problem is, I drown in them. After wearing my clothes and a big beady chain, there’s not much left to be seen in the my 5-foot-something frame. As a result, I have accumulated gorgeous, loud, space-consuming pieces lining up my cupboard door and waiting for the day when I get taller / heftier / unconcerned by the mismatch of proportions.
Well actually, they don’t line up my cupboard any longer, as I have repurposed those giant neckpieces into curtain holds!
Tip: The bigger, the better!
So what are you waiting for? Declutter your closet and repurpose your old jewellery – and share your results with us!
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