Besides the rag rug I've been preoccupied making other
things, such as this matching chain and earrings set.
There is naturally a story behind these pieces and like
most stories this could be a long one so I'll try to condense it as best I can.
Some time around 2010 my etsy shop went from being an unsuccessful
jewelry shop, to being a mediocre jewelry making supplies shop.
Back then the etsy forums was a busy place and
the busiest of the forums was Promotions.
Forget speeding bullets, Promo threads
came and went faster than Superman himself, therefore many threads fell by the
roadside unnoticed like so much road kill.
One day I spotted a Promo thread that was a genuine
plea. The poster had a small etsy
jewelry supply shop that she wished to close and she was clearing out the last
dribs and drabs of her inventory. The
few items she had left were grouped together in one lot and drastically
discounted, the price had been slashed to the bone and items were below cost .
. . she was desperate. Unfortunately no
one had time to read her post as they were all too busy playing the Buy and Stay, Buy and Replace, Give and Take or whatever
happened to be the hottest rock-em-sock-em promo threads going. (I later learned that those threads were
perpetuated by groups of shops and they worked together to keep their threads
at the top of the forum.)
Anyway I could not help but feel sorry for the shop that
posted its going out of business thread and so I contacted the shop's owner and
informed her that I was interested in purchasing her lot of odds and ends. Much of it I really did not need but I felt an
empathy with her situation and knew firsthand how it felt to be invisible in
the promo forum.
One item in this lot of supplies was a bag of gold-plate shepherd
hook clasps.
Over the years I've used a
few of them but still had a number left. Then I got this idea to create a
necklace using the hooks and the eyes along with a number of my own handmade
links. There are various colors of gold in
this chain, some darker, looking a bit like antique gold, and some a paler,
lighter yellow gold but I think it all works well together. I even saved 2 of the Shepherds hooks to make
a pair of matching earrings.
Maybe I'm dorky but I think they're kind of cute. :D
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