today I'm going to show you how to repurpose some old jewelry and make it
modern DIY style hi I'm Schellea and welcome to Fabulous 50's
today I'm going to show you the coolest trick to repurpose an old piece of
jewelry I've got two bits of jewelry and all you're going to need today is two
pieces of leather this is a very fine leather and you can choose whatever
thickness you like I'll leave a link to a place where you can get something
similar to this but using these two pieces of leather we're going to be able
to make two things the first thing is I'm going to use my mother's wedding
ring that she left me when she passed away so I love this ring so much but it
doesn't fit my fingers and I wouldn't feel right wearing it anyway on my
fingers and many of you may have your mother's wedding ring that you've been
left also some of you may even have an ex wedding ring that you don't wear
anymore but you still have some warm feelings towards that person and you'd
like to repurpose it also sometimes our fingers swell and we can't wear our
rings anymore so they don't fit so I'm going to show you a different way to
wear it and you're going to love it okay so we grab two pieces of leather like
this first piece of leather fold it in half the little curve there take the
ring put it through take this part and
feed it through and pull like this and the second part is the same take this
one
be careful that your loops are threaded on the same side so your edgings the
same just double-check that when you do it okay now that you've got this super
simple you take it tie it in a bow at the back there you go it's a very modern
way to wear an old-style ring and you can adjust the tie at the back to go to
any length that you like so you can go long down here or wear it up to this
length and you can layer this with other different pieces that you've either made
or that you've already got so this is a beautiful way for me to wear my mum's
wedding ring without wearing it on my finger and it's very sentimental plus
I'm the only one in the whole world who has this choker so I love it now let me
show you another way to repurpose an old piece of jewelry using the same two
pieces of leather I used to wear back in the day chains like this and I it's sort
of that length and you know it doesn't really do anything for me and I find
this a little bit dated so I've got a new way for you to wear this if you've
got something like this so it could be a piece of chain that's very fine
or something more like this it doesn't matter you'll get the same effect we're
going to take the chain now it's important to work out where you'd like
the clasp to go because you're going to notice the clasp when it's on so I'm
going to have the clasp because I quite like it in the center and if you don't
love the clasp you put it to the side and then it will sort of go around to
the back and be attached to the letter so I'm going to put mine in the center
like this and you take your first piece of leather and keeping that in the
center and loop it around like we did the first time
and pull and then you take the second piece of leather and do the same thing
and then you'll end up with something like that and my clasp is right in the
center so your clasp it might be over here underneath the loop and then you
take it and tie it up in a bow the same way we did before and you set the
tightness to wherever you want it to sit on your neck and there it is I love this
so much I would never wear the chain just by itself because it doesn't really
do anything but this it's it's different it's modern I've made it myself it can
be the exact length that I like which is difficult to get a chain this length and
yeah I mean I've got other chains that I could add as well so you could add
another layer on here using the same leather and just make a whole series of
different lengths you can do whatever you want
hopefully you've got some fun things at home that you can play with and recreate
and make new thank you so much for watching please give a thumbs up if you
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