Rustic Chatelaine Necklace and a Nunn Design Giveaway

Project by Sarah Donawerth

This project was inspired by the Victorian chatelaine. It was a set of chains hung from a belt that women would use to carry their keys, thimbles, scissors, pencils, fans, or other useful accessories. Even Mrs. Hughes from Downton Abbey had a chatelaine to hang her housekeeping keys from. These jewelry items could be very practical or very ornate.  Many Victorian examples of the chatelaine had finely etched silver accessories attached. This rustic necklace brings back the trend with keys, inspirational tags, and even a message in a bottle hanging from it.

Rustic Chatelaine Necklace Project Directions:

Beginning with the message in a bottle, type a message on a 1” high strip of paper. With black ink, distress the edges. I typed “live simply. love generously. learn constantly.” It’s a good mantra to live by, so it seemed fitting to include it in a secret message for the necklace.

Roll up the message, put it in the bottle, and glue the bottle cap to the top. Wrap black wire around the bottle’s cap, gluing in place if needed. The end of the wire should be bent inward, then woven underneath the rest of the wire. Separate chain in to 5 pieces, each a different length. Attach the five pieces to a large jumpring. Attach the itsy bottle to a large jumpring.

Cut two 36” lengths of hand-dyed ribbon and one 36” length of black lace.

Add the jumpring with the chains and the jumpring with the itsy bottle to another large jumpring, then pull black lace and two lengths hand-dyed ribbon through this jumpring and knot the ends together.

To each chain end, add an antique key, philosophy tag, or chandelier drop.

Enter Our Nunn Design Giveaway!

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We’re giving one lucky winner this amazing grab bag of the latest jewelry products from Nunn Design!  Share this post on any social media platform and post your link in the comments below to be entered into our prize drawing.

Winners will be randomly selected from the comments for our giveaway and contacted via email. Contest is open to U.S. residents only, and ends 9/9/15 at 11:59pm PST.

 

 

 

A special thank you to Becky Nunn for providing the prize for this giveaway. You can see the rest of her new collection at nunndesign.com.