March 2014 - Page 2 of 2 - Tarnished Royalty

Happy Monday dear readers! I hope you had a good, refreshing weekend. It’s a new week full of new possibilities! Welcome to Girls Want Pearls #31. Today I want to show you how to turn ordinary objects into pearl dripping candle holders. I gathered up some of my ironstone collection, spools of string, and some glass bobeches.

I decided to keep it all neutral, so I used off white candles. The bobeches come in handy to both bridge the gap at the top of vessels and to hold the candles in place. I added stick tack to some of them to keep them even more stable. Swags can be made by hooking the pearls to the bobeches if they have holes/wire for that. Some of mine don’t so I just wrapped pearls around the candle base, then intertwined, swagged and dripped to get the desired effect.

Here’s a view from the top. You can see how I added pedestals to bring the height up on some of the pieces.

Almost anything can be turned into a candle holder ~ clear glass vases, mason jars, silver or tin pieces, teapots, the only limit is your imagination. Experiment and have fun!

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Ann

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Even though it’s frigid now where many of us live, it won’t be long until it’s time to bare those legs! Welcome to the 30th installment of my year-long weekly series Girls Want Pearls! To all of you who experience the 4 seasons in their fullest sense, I hope you’re staying warm. To those of you who think it’s cold when it hits 50 . . . well nevermind. I love you just the same. And to everyone reading this, spring really is coming! Really!

This might be my favorite pearl project to date. We’re going to pearlify our socks! It works with socks in any color, print and weight. The possibilities are endless!

This design needs no explanation…

How easy is that!

For this design you’ll need 3 strands of pearls per sock, the kind that go from small pearls to a large pearl in the center. Plus six large pearls.

Just sew on the strands and then sew the single pearls at each peak.

If you prefer to make them removable, you can do that by sewing on plastic hair bands and threading the strands through.

If you’re feeling like a real girly girl you can easily add tulle with your pearls. Too over the top for you? How cute for a daughter or granddaughter.

Just cut 4 or 5 strips of tulle, 4″ wide x 12″ long, per sock.
Fold each strip accordion style.

Then fold each of those in half, fan out a little and sew on the sock. Do this for each strip, sewing them on all the way around the sock. You’ll want to sew each one separately without linking them together or your sock might not open up far enough to get your foot in (I found this out the hard way!). Then just sew on your pearls.