DIY: Jewelry Art

Here’s another DIY gift idea for the holidays! 

If you’re like me and you have a drawer full of old jewelry – some junk and others sentimental, here’s a solution that might work for you.  I asked both of my daughters to give me their old jewelry and I’m going to surprise them with a unique memento. 

I bought an inexpensive memory box frame, pulled out some velvet remnants from old costumes, and assembled piles of old jewelry in the shape of a heart.  Then I hot-glued sentimental rings (their first gifts from me), travel pins that they collected from our travels around the world, and costume jewelry that they wore for dance competitions. 

It’s a good way to clean out old jewelry boxes and create a work of art! 

I got this idea from my friend Barbara Eastburn who commissioned her friend Rowena to make a Christmas tree using old watch faces: