So, as you can tell from my first few projects, I like jewelry. I have tons of jewelry-making supplies from projects I've done in the past (including making a couple of tiaras for weddings) but I never use it anymore. I don't have a ton of beads or anything and I'm not one of those people crazy for beading, so I rarely ever make jewelry unless I can't find exactly what I want to buy. Recently, I bought an orange dress to wear to my baby shower and couldn't find the perfect turquoise earrings and necklace set for a reasonable price, so I bought the materials and made them myself.
I pinned this little gem of a charm bracelet forever ago with the thought that I could go find all of my old souvenir pennies and finally find a use for them. So I raided my old jewelry box at my mom's house and scraped together some older ones from places I visited in college and started collecting more on my recent travels. Now, everywhere I go, I have to squish a penny if I see a machine! And I usually try to find the oldest penny in my purse because, as you can see, the older, all copper pennies turn out better than the newer ones made mostly out of zinc.
So, as my penny collection has been growing, I've had this project in mind for over a year, but haven't ever gotten the energy to do it. So the other night I was ordering chain for the shrinky dink necklaces I'm going to make of the baby's footprints and I decided to go ahead and order some copper chain and findings as well. The chain came in the mail today, so I sat down this afternoon with the drill and it took no time at all to punch holes in all of my pennies. I didn't try to face the right-side up or anything because sometimes there is more empty space on one side or the other, I just did my best to not drill through any of the artwork impression. It also didn't take long to string them onto the chain I bought with the jump rings. Most of the time I spent on this project was in ordering the right parts. Once I had all the materials I needed in hand, it only took about a half an hour to put it all together.
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