Saturday, May 29, 2010

Playing around with Spoons: Antique Silver Spoon Earrings


These used to be spoons!




Earrings I made from antique spoon handles


I'll admit it, I have a hard time throwing pretty things away, even if it is something that is considered "scrap." 

After making a spoon bracelet out of a pair of orphaned antique silver plated spoons I found myself left with the cut off bowl-ends of the spoons - and they had such a pretty filigree design on the neck (the thin part of the spoon that connects the handle to the bowl) that I just had to make something out of them...

...so I removed the bowl of the spoon and kept the thin, ornate necks and transformed them into these one of a kind earrings! (click photos for larger images)





(total measurement 1/4" wide by 2 & 1/4" long including sterling ear-wires and Swarovksi crystal drops)


Silver Spoon jewelry Earrings with pearls ornate vintage flatware ooak
I added sterling wires and pearls to this pair


Silver Spoon jewelry Earrings with pearls ornate vintage flatware ooak
Antique silver spoon earrings with pearl drops




What do you think of them?