Fancy Embroidered Pendants! (Okay, I Cheated)

I am so chuffed.  I made three beautiful pendants, positively dripping with gems and beads and gold thread embroidery.

Oooh.  Ahhh.  Just look at the detail!

What a lot of work!  My fingers are sore, I am bleeding from all the needle pricks and half blind from the close embroidery work.

Yeah...no.

How'd I really make them?

Found these little boxes at a discount sale (a buck and a quarter each, whoo!!!).  I pried off the tops and omgeeeeeee, a gorgeous disc of delight.

If only I could find a way to hang it on a necklace.  Putting the little gray cells to work, I came up with three different ways to convert them to pendants.  Ready?  Here comes a triple DIY.

Method One: I sewed a small brass filigree onto the front of the disc.  Glued a circle of felt to the back.  Then added a nice big jump ring, and ta-da!

This baby was all ready to hang on the nearest cord, chain or necklace of my choice.

 

Method Two: I found a great big filigree (it came off an old brooch, I think) that was just a bit larger than the embroidered disc.  I bent the corners up, nestled the disc inside, then bent the corners down to hold it in place.

I added jump rings for attaching a long decorative chain.

Loooove it!

Method Three: I used my all time favorite little trick, aluminum duct tape.  Taped a plain metal ring to the disc, and that was all she wrote.

Bam, that took a hot minute!

And now, of course, I have three little blank-slate boxes to embellish at my leisure:

One o' these days, I'll show you what I did.  Later, gators!