Jewelry Box Recreations with Chrissy Gemmill

Guest Blogger...Chrissy Gemmill

Sunday Workshop

April 19 12-3 pm "Jewelry Box Recreations"

Hello there! Bring in your old, mismatched, or broken jewelry and recreate it into a fresh new recycled design at my upcoming Jewelry Box Recreations Class. This class will offer a variety of non precious findings plus a large array of beads to incorporate into your recycled design. I will help guide your designs into something you will love to wear!
I've started going through my old jewelry boxes to find old things to refurbish, revamp and make samples for the class. Here's the random selection I've collected so far.

I had so much fun with this project. I only had about two hours to work on this but could have spent the entire day messing around and recreating. I made the necklaces below with an old pin from about 1984 bought at Express, an old broken antique shoe clip and an old earring.

There will be a jewelers drill on hand and basic jewelry hand tools. I encourage you to bring your own hand tools if you have them so you don't have to share.

Begin your jewelry clean out now!

Here are some suggestions for this class:
1. Anything broken to recycle jump rings, clasps, chain and beads
2. Mismatched earrings

3. Buttons
4. Pins

5. Vintage Jewelry

6. Ask your family or friends if they want to give you any of their old jewelry they no longer want, the more you have to work with the better your designs will be.

7.Flea market finds

8.Thift store finds (I've often spotted bags of other people mismatched jewelry sold for cheap)

9. Chains! Broken chains are great too! The class will be begin with a basic jewelry skills review and I will be available to help through out.
This is going to be a really cool workshop, I can't wait to see the interesting things people are going to bring and make. The possibilities are endless!

Hope to see you there!

Cheers!Chrissy