Now's the Time!

Now's the time to order custom designed heirloom jewelry that you and your family will treasure for decades to come. It's a wonderful Christmas idea. If you have china that your family has cherished over the years or that belonged to a beloved family member, broken china jewelry is a wonderful way to recycle that china. Or you can request a certain design or flower pattern and I will see if I have the china that can be used.

Contact me and we can begin the process of creating jewelry that will be truly special.

Latest custom order

This customer sent me a very bright, beautiful broken teacup and asked me to design four pendants for her family. Here are the results! It's always such a pleasure to design heirloom jewelry for a family.

Heirloom jewelry custom orders

As the holidays approach, I've been hearing from customers who want heirloom jewelry designed from china that holds sentimental meaning to them for family members. China is sometimes a part of a family for generations and so many memories can be attached to it. Turning a broken plate into a wire wrapped creation is my way of prolonging the life of those memories.

So create a special memories piece of jewelry that will be treasured for a lifetime. Or have a signature piece created for yourself.

I will work with you to develop the perfect piece. Ideas for your custom piece can be taken from the pieces that are presently for sale or have been sold on my website. Or come up with your own ideas and give me a challenge! Or you can leave it up to me to create a design from the china that you send to me.

Often times, beloved plates with great sentimental value are broken. There's your grandmother's favorite bone china teacup from England that now has a broken handle. The oriental vase that graced your parents' table for so many years slipped out of your hands last week, broke into pieces and now resides in a bag thrown in the back of your closet. Or perhaps you'd like something special created for your teenage daughter - maybe something out of that Beatrice Potter dish that she loved as a child. Don't despair! Just contact me and I'll be glad to work up a jewelry item from the broken pieces that will have special meaning for you and your family members.

Here's a testimonial from a very happy customer for whom I designed jewelry for her whole family last Christmas:

"The pendants were absolutely perfect! As you can imagine, this Christmas was difficult without my grandmother. On Christmas Eve, my mom and aunt brought some of my grandmother's old photos to share with their cousins before dessert. After everyone was done looking at and talking about the pictures, my mom told them that she had a special gift that she wanted to give to them early. Everyone was really amazed by the pendants and by how they were made! And the cousin who my mom thought was least likely to wear the pendant was the most moved by it! She and everyone else put them on immediately! I cannot thank you enough!"
Tara Napolitano
(for full story, please visit my blog.)

Blue Willow custom order started

I had mentioned before about the custom order I've received to design china from a customer's Blue Willow china platter. This china belonged to her aunt whom she loved and admired greatly. Unfortunately, the platter fell off the top of the refrigerator and broke into far too many pieces to salvage. The customer has requested that I design jewelry from the china for her to give her relatives this Christmas. Since it is a Christmas order, I hadn't done anything with the china when it arrived. But I've now broken it into the desired pieces. I can't believe my luck that I was able to save the two birds and the boat which are such an integral part of the Blue Willow tale. To read the fascinating tale, please check out my prior blog posting.

Here are some of the pieces that I'll be using to make the pendants. In talking it over with my customer, we decided not to use the tree piece. Instead we may be using another one of the oval designs which is located in several places around the border of the platter. All of the pieces shown here are in very rough form and still need to be shaped and smoothed.



These pieces will be transformed in several pairs of earrings.
















And these will be used to make men's tie tacks. I'm very excited to be branching out into men's jewelry and will be adding more of this type of jewelry to my site in the very near future.
















So stayed tuned to see the final designs from this beautiful Blue Willow china platter.

A lovely Christmas story

A few weeks ago, I wrote about a custom order that I had finished for a customer and posted the photo of the wire crochet necklace and pendant that I made for her. I mentioned that there was more to the story but it had to wait until after Christmas so no surprises would be ruined.

                                              

This customer had written to me a couple of months ago telling me that her grandmother had passed away in August and she wanted me to design some jewelry from her grandmom's china. She had previously purchased a couple of my pieces from a local store, "World's Images".

  

                                             

                                                        

Since she was local, we made arrangements for her to come to my house to work out exactly what she wanted. The night we met, her mom came with her. They ordered 7 pendants for their relatives whom they would see on Christmas Eve. Her mom also bought a crochet necklace with a yellow rose pendant.  6 of the pendants were to be wrapped in silver wire and one in gold because the one lady never wore silver. They left it up to me as to the designs of the pendants.

I designed each pendant differently so they would each have something unique. The mother and daughter came to pick them up and were thrilled with the results. They couldn't wait until Christmas to give their special gifts to their relatives. They felt that they were giving something truly special and close to their hearts. And I was just as excited as they were. Shortly after they left, the mom called me asking if she could come right back - she wanted one more pendant for another relative they didn't want to leave out, even though she never wore costume jewelry. 

That's the one that I created in the shape of a heart



 

I heard from the daughter today and here's what she wrote:

"The pendants were absolutely perfect!

As you can imagine, this Christmas was difficult without my grandmother. On Christmas Eve, my mom and aunt brought some of my grandmother's old photos to share with their cousins before dessert. After everyone was done looking at and talking about the pictures, my mom told them that she had a special gift that she wanted to give to them early. Everyone was really amazed by the pendants and by how they were made! And the cousin who my mom thought was least likely to wear the pendant was the most moved by it! She and everyone else put them on immediately!  

I can't thank you enough!"

It was such a pleasure to be able to make something that meant so much to this family for a holiday that was bound to be difficult for them. As much as I enjoy designing the pieces that I put on my website, custom orders that have special meaning to people like these is what I truly love to do.

Marjorie
www.marjoriescracked.com