Over the weekend I visited one of my favorite stores, Anthropologie. Just walking around that store gets my creative juices flowing. Honestly, they could take a piece of chewed up gum from the sidewalk and make it look good. So whoever is designing all of those awesome displays, YOU ROCK! Anyways, on my way back home I was on some kind of creative high and all these ideas were flooding my mind. Amazing what a little shopping and no kids will do to you. Well at some point it occurred to me that I could paint jewelry with nail polish. And it was in that moment that I wished I had a bunch of ugly jewelry. Oh the crafty injustice, no ugly jewelry. Whatever would I do...
Well I did what any crafty gal/guy would do, hit up the local thrift store. I purchased two pins for pennies. The earrings I already had.*Jewelry that has tarnished or the gold/silver plate has worn away works perfect for a project like this.
I cleaned and wiped the jewelry dry. Then I just painted it with a couple coats of black nail polish. Once that dried I added a little glitter polish. That's it, simple right?*Cheap nail polish works just fine, that's what I used.
I really think the jewelry looks much better in person. Try it out for yourself and tell me what you think.
9 comments:
smart idea, i have tons of jewelry thats fading..gonna try this out..maybe another color..hm thx!
This is really cool, I might go home and dig my old fading jewelries out and see what I can do
Great idea!
What an awesome idea. I love the way your mind works. ;-)
this is an innovative approach to old jewelry, even very economical!
happy weekend!
What a great idea! I have a ton of old ugly jewelry from high school, AND lots of nail polish colors I've used once or twice that would be perfect for this! Thanks for the idea!
Hm... I hope everything's fine these days?
why don't you use the 'will return sign' you have created? I have been waiting for your new post everyday. Hope everything is just fine with you.
Wow...what a great idea....really neat and inexpensive. Never would have thought to use nail polish.
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