I went through a phase a couple of years ago where I bought cheap, metal costume jewelry.
You know what I am talking about, $3.99 at Forever 21 or two for $8 at Charlotte Russe.
Thus I have quite a few pairs of earrings that are now tarnished and un-wearable.
Last fall we had our family pictures taken by my fabulously talented friend Valerie Henderson (you can find her on fb here and see her website here. She is an amazing photographer and has been a huge inspiration to me. I will write more about that in another post). I knew the importance of wearing bright colors and incorporating fun accessories to really make your portraits "pop".
I started planning several weeks ahead what we were all going to wear. I knew I wanted to wear a pink top and turquoise earrings (I love pink and turquoise together which is obvious by the colors I chose for my new photography logo). Well living in Oklahoma, finding bright, vibrant colors in clothing and accessories is not always the easiest thing to do (especially on a SAHM budget).
I searched and searched for turquoise "costume jewelry" style earrings. I thought to myself, if I could just find a pair in my favorite spray paint color "lagoon". Then a light bulb went off. What do I do when I want something a certain color for my house? I spray paint it. So why not do that to a pair of my old earrings?
It's not rocket science but one of those "why didn't I think of this earlier" projects.
They are now my very favorite pair of earrings. I took something old (that I probably should have thrown away long ago) and made it new again.
