
“Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks,
breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.” — Mary Lou Cook
Greetings! Welcome to the next stop on the Industrial Chic Blog Hop! I warn you, I was doubly inspired, so I have two projects to share with you. (A third will be featured after Labor Day!)

Earlier this summer, I received assorted trinkets from Susan Lenart's Industrial Chic™ collection plus some Ice Resin® to incorporate into work in any manner I wished. Treasure box? Painting? Shrine? The large pendant inspired me first with the possibility of framing bits of paper ephemera from my stash. And, I loved the thimble!

Here are the basics to make one of your own:
Materials:
Pendant from Susan Lenart Kazmer's Industrial Chic™ collection
26" of Beadalon® Professional Series #26 / .018 Stringing Wire in Black
1 Beadalon® medium sized silver toggle
2 #2 Beadalon® crimp tubes
2 silver finish crimp covers
Clear glass Czech beads (obtained from Shipwreck Beads)
Cut glass Czech beads in powder blue (obtained from Shipwreck Beads)
vintage brass beads (from my Gam's broken necklace)
vintage 3 cut 11/0 metallic silver beads (gift from a friend)
assorted beaded buttons (a gift from a friend)
4 jump rings
6 inches of ribbon (I used to sell the ribbon when I owned my yarn store 12 years ago.)
Tools:
flat nose pliers
crimping pliers
wire cutters
Directions:
First, I took apart the pendant by carefully opening the prongs with my flat nose pliers.

I replaced the collage provided with paper from my stash of Victorian replica paper scraps, but I think it would be equally cool with a photo of family. I put the metal frame and glass top back in place and pushed down the prongs to securely hold everything together. I readded the grey ribbon and and pendant bail.

The rest was straight forward bead stringing with the pendant at the center and the larger beads interspersed with beaded buttons and 11/0 3-cut vitage beads. I finished it off with a shimmery, sheer ribbon in the palest of pinks.
The finished result is remarkably light despite the size of the pendant. I've been wearing it to college meetings all week, receiving many compliments and requests for custom work.
But like I said, I couldn't stop with one. I had to make another. Those sewing bobbins! Perfect! I grabbed an old key from the junk drawer. When I bought the house, I was given a skeleton key to front door at closing. Seriously? Yep, here in Chicago circa 1999! When I moved in, I found a tin of them under the stairs, one for every door in the house with plenty of spares.

With my key as charm holder, I added a bobbin and metal tag from the Industrial Chic™ collection, plus my personal bits and bobs, like beads, buttons and even an old French franc. Ooh, la, la! C'est magnifique, n'est-ce pas?
I've been having fun following the blog hop and I hope you do too. Here is the full August line up!
August
10 Barbe St. John http://barbesaintjohn.blogspot.com/
11 Cheryl Bodkin Waters http://blog.artsyfindings.com/
12 Cindi Bisson http://fatcatcreations.blogspot.com/
13 Gretchen McHale http://readingartworks.com/beta/?page_id=964
14 Jenny Barnet Rohrs http://www.crafttestdummies.com/
15 Kari McNight http://backporchartessa.blogspot.com/
16 Me - Lindsay Obermeyer
17 Seth Apter http://thealteredpage.blogspot.com/
18 Suze Weinberg http://suzeweinberg.typepad.com/
19 Tami Bayer http://www.tamibayer.com/
20 Theresa Cifali http://theresacifali.com/
21 Tracie Stivers Lampe http://www.radicalrecycks.com/BlogRetrieve.aspx? BlogID=7528
22 Traci Bautista http://kollaj.typepad.com
23 Jen Crossley http://amarkintime.blogspot.com/
24 Eileen Hull http://www.eileenhull.blogspot.com/
25 Pam Carriker http://pamcarriker.com/blog/
And if that isn't enough inspiration for you, check out what these amazing designers did in July!
Ken Oliver http://kensworldinprogress.blogspot.com/
Vicki O'Dell http://www.vickiodell.com
Cindy Cima Edwards http://www.cindycima.com/
Elena Lai Etceverry http://thetravelingprincess.blogspot.com/
Jen Osborne http://www.themessynest.com/
Wanda Eas http://craftymule.blogspot.com/
Sandy Martin http://sweetpeajewelry1.blogspot.com/
Susan Weckesser http://mysweetearth.blogspot.com/
Tracy Weinzaphel http://www.tracywburgos.typepad.com/
Terri O http://www.supersimplewithterrio.com/