Sophisticated Junkie: New Line of Jewelry

A few months back I seen a necklace made from old watch parts "Steampunk". I knew I was about to get myself in a new artistic journey. I searched high and low for old watch parts, vintage jewelry to repurpose, and anything else I could get my hands on.

Just as I expected, two months later I've completely emerged myself in learning and creating unique jewelry. It's been a bit of a challenge, finding old watch parts and vintage jewelry findings isn't as easy as you'd think. Visiting antique shops, yard sales, and auctions makes the quest a bit more challenging and a whole lot more interesting. There's not many yards sales I'll pass up, and antique auctions are just up my alley.

I've always loved old dress forms, these too are very hard to find at a reasonable price, searched online and the cheapest one I could find was $150, I knew I was going need to get my hands dirty and make my own.....funny how when we want something bad enough we figure how to engineer a little riggen' here and there....

I wanted to add a little more detail. (My opionin, painting it would of just made it look tacky) Adding the old dress pattern couldn't of been any better. I don't know if you can really see it from the picture, I added dictionary words to different areas of the body to give it a little more detail. ( buttom, chest, breast, heart, waste, etc.) I ended up making two....and happy with how they turned out.