In honor of Father's Day, Sandra McGriff of Creative Chaos issued a challenge: take something from "his world" and make a piece of jewelry out of it. I rounded up some things from the garage (see previous post) and spent some time with paints and chemicals to alter some of the pieces:
I decided I needed some fiber to offset all the metal, so I tore some strips from an old pair of jeans (OK, they were bib overalls - don't even ask about that!) and this is what I came up with:
For the first two bracelet, I used the denim - one with an oval connector I found and one with a colored washer wired on as a focal. Then I made some "chain" bracelets - one with bullets and washers, one with washers and fishing lures and one with dangling washers. When you put these all together and layer them on in a big, messy stack, you get this:
And by then I was having such a good time and I already had the mess anyway, so I made up some key rings:
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