Ornamental Jewelry Keeper

Are you fond of collecting vintage snippets of lace, ribbon and fabrics? Old buttons? Jewelry findings? Vintage book covers? Do you like to collect jewelry and want a way to display favorite pieces, especially if it is something that you have made by hand? Come spend the day with Nina, creating a wallhanging from some or all of these things, so that you’ll have by day’s end a unique piece of art that highlights a necklace or bracelet and several pair of earrings.

Supply List:

• vintage hardback book cover, large sized preferable (mine is 9” x 12”)
• awl
• Japanese screw punch and #3 tip to accommodate 1/8” eyelets – optional but optimal!* package of 1/8” long eyelets, your choice of metal*
• Eyelet setter*
• Small lightweight hammer (earplugs, optional!)
• Small metal bench block, optional – available from volcanoarts.com
• Cutting pad and utility knife (exacto), metal ruler, scissors
• PVA glue*, wide paintbrush (1” will be fine), cup for water, paper towels
• Scrap papers for embellishment (old print, music sheets, old photo album pages, photos, notes, scrapbooking paper, wallpaper, etc)
• Fabric and lace scraps (I used two layers of fabric with varying pattern and another layer of vintage lace
• Small amount of batting for padding fabric – I used quilting batting, doubled
• Large eyed needle and small amount of embroidery thread
• Vintage buttons, optional
• Vintage findings, optional
• Wire for findings (also optional) – lighter gauge is fine (24, 26)
• stamps and pads, optional
• Sturdy ribbon, no wider than ½” –1 yard will do
• Smaller ribbon to tie jewelry onto wallhanging – 1 ½ yards will do
• Treasures and charms to attach with wire and ribbon (think about beads, charms, pencils, old paintbrushes, tiny bottles, beach glass, twigs, old photographs, keys, pressed leaves and flowers or vintage millinery flowers – anything that might “tell a story” from your travels
  
  *all items with asterisk are available from volcanoarts.biz