chezlin ·
This week I'll be walking you through how to make a necklace with some drooping chains hanging down. This is an intermediate level project because part of the necklace will be fabricated by hammering the metal and drilling into it.
Let me know what you think of this finished necklace! I quite like how it turned out!
chezlin ·
Okay, well this little guy is actually a dimetrodon which makes him a pelycosaur rather than a dinosaur, but we can just pretend. I've seen this idea before, stringing up little trinkets and toys to create new jewelry, and for some reason I decided I needed a dinosaur necklace. I was quite surprised at how hard it was to find small dino toys, but eventually I found a big pack of them for 3 bucks so I snatched it up. Most of the dinos in the package are too large for what I wanted to do, so I need to figure out what to do with them. There were, however, about 4 or 5 guys in the package that would work just fine.
Here's the little guy I picked.
I used Krylon Fusion spray paint because it's supposed to bond to plastic and I wanted the best possible chance of the paint staying on and not flaking off on me as I wore it. I suppose I could have just used some cheaper stuff but I didn't want to risk it.
Here he is, lookin' all shiny and new.
I have a tiny drill that I used to drill into the plastic to make way for the jewelry findings. I actually messed up because the plastic is very thin on this guys fin so I ended up drilling right through. That was fixed by a very generous glob of glue.
And finally strung up as a necklace.
This guy is pretty cute and I can't wait to wear it out! Now I just have to figure out what to do with the remaining dinosaurs...
