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How to Make Jewelry from Doll Accessories

How to turn doll shoes, purses, etc into bracelets and necklaces.

I often wonder how many of Polly Pocket's and Barbie's shoes, purses and other little bits have been sucked up in the vacuum cleaner, eaten by the dog or just thrown away by accident. My daughter is now 18, but I can still remember chasing a very angry 5 year old, bent on killing the dog because he had just eaten a Barbie doll's shoe. I can also remember all the secessions digging through doll clothes, game pieces and other toys to find the matching purse to this outfit or shoes or whatever because life could not go on until it was found. (Ever have days like that?) Needless to say, I was speechless when I found a shoebox stuffed full of just that sort of thing in the basement recently.

Who had done it? Why had they done it? More importantly why did I stop everything I was doing to sort through that entire box?

Maybe it was nostalgia, after all, my daughter is now 18 and has left this kind of thing far behind. Or maybe it was all those sessions, digging through all that stuff and not finding the matching shoe, hat, purse, etc. that spurred me on. Whatever it was, I took that box and spread the contents out on my dining room table and began to'"you'll never guess what'"to match up all the shoes, sandals and boots. Then find purses or hats that would go with them and disappointed when a match could not be made.

There I was sitting at a table full of Barbie and Polly Pocket accessories. I felt proud of all my matches and very hesitant to just dump it all back into that shoebox. But what could I to do with it?

Isn't it obvious?

Make jewelry of course!

To make these doll accessory bracelets you will need:
Polly Pocket or Barbie sets of shoes, purses, etc.
Bracelet (most craft stores have them in the jewelry making supply isle)
O-rings (again jewelry making isle)
Pliers (2)

To begin you need to know how to use an O-ring. It is a simple piece of wire that has been bent into a perfect circle with both ends facing one another, but not attached. Hold the O-ring in one set of pliers and with the other pliers bend the ring open so that either another O-ring or doll accessory can be placed on the wire. Then close the O-ring so that both ends meet again and there is no spaces for the other O-ring or doll accessory to slip out of.

Next you start building your shoe, purse, whatever you want to use into what I call charms. I like to have my doll accessory be able to dangle with the bracelet so I open an O-ring, put another O-ring in as well as a single doll accessory and then re-close the O-ring. This way I have an O-ring spacer between the doll accessory and the bracelet. With a third O-ring, I open it and slid my charm over as well as a link on the bracelet and close. You keep doing this until there is not more room left or your design is complete.

The bracelets look good with a single pairing, with items evenly spaced across and with all over effect. This idea can easily be translated into necklaces.