weddingy stuff

[supercheesegirl]

Thought you guys might be interested to see how my wedding jewelry is coming along. allthefishies is refurbishing my grandma's old ivory pendant, earrings, and bracelet for me. It's beautiful. Check it out here!

If you're interested in still more wedding planning, you can check out the rest of F's Flickr photostream. We're using it as an inspiration board to plan out some of the sorts of things we want.

Comments

[bulleteyes.livejournal.com]

What a delight you are wearing jewelry that has emotional value! It looks beautiful and elegant. Thank you for the pictures.

What needed refurbishment? Was the ivory yellowed? I'm curious about what she did.

[supercheesegirl.livejournal.com]

I'm so excited to wear these! I've always loved these pieces of my grandma's. I think she would be really happy to know I'm wearing them for my wedding day.

The bracelet did not originally have the crystal beads. It was just the ivory/bakelite beads, on elastic that was really worn out. Amy unstrung it and restrung the bracelet on wire, and added in the pretty crystal beads. She'll add a nice clasp, too (the old bracelet just slipped on).

The earrings were clip-on. Amy removed the clip part and added the little beads to hide the part of the clip she couldn't remove. She's going to add some more beads to make them dangle just bit, and she'll put them on posts for pierced ears.

The chain for the necklace is in okay shape, but I never usually wear gold. Amy is going to take the pendant off and restring it onto a floating chain with more of the crystal beads. We're waiting to see what the neckline of my dress will be like before she proceeds with this.

The ivory is a little yellow and dirty--we'll clean it up before the wedding. Amy says a little dish soap will clean it right up, and will also make the crystal beads really sparkly.

[allthefishies.livejournal.com]

Awesome photo stream. Everything that's on there feels so much like -you-, it's awesome.

And by you, i mean Fritz as an extension of you. Not literally. Figuratively. That collective you. .......you know what i mean. <3

I love love love the book ideas. Also I love the photography. Finally, I LOVE the hanging banners. Once I get the jewelry done, I'm available for other projects. :-)

I'll be working more on the jewelry this weekend, so I'll send more pics when I do. :-)

[supercheesegirl.livejournal.com]

You are so the best!!

[lizabethanqueen]

I love the jewelery... but you already knew that.

I looked through the flickr and there are some awesome ideas in there. I love the books/paper/photos themes. Please let me know if there's stuff I can help with. I love crafty things and I've already decided I'm eloping if I ever get married so I'd like to craft vicariously if possible.

[piscosubito.livejournal.com]

Amy did a fantastic job with the jewelry so far - I can't wait to see what the necklace looks like when she finishes!

And I love love love the paper flower idea. Those are freaking beautiful. Makes me want to try and figure out how to make them just for fun... But I've never been able to get the hang of origami.