Multicoloured Vintage Collar with Hand Beaded Pendant

Multicoloured Vintage Collar with Hand Beaded PendantWorking on vintage textiles is like heaven to me. This collar, which may have been from a wonderful cocktail garment, was depleted of many of its beads and needed a lot of TLC. It was lovely on its own but I've taken it to the next level adding a round handbeaded pendant made over many hours. Wear this couture piece any time, any place, any where.

I settled on using it as the centrepiece to a bigger pendant and have added more of my own beadwork to tie it in

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An iconic mouse reinvented into a glorious bag charm

vintage and glass beads

A cute metal bird with vintage book on Middlesbrough

They are strung to a purple and pink bead necklace

The pendant hangs from a two-stranded necklace of sparkly aurora borealis beads from the 1950s

1 Purple Bead + Purple Shank

The most wonderful miniature vintage red leather slippers with tiny pom poms on the toes and decorative details around the edges in blue and cream

This cheeky necklace puts a grin on even the glummest of faces

Fun vintage orange plastic flower with green lion and rabbit drop earrings

this was an iconic kids program which was around in the 1970s