My pic isn't very good and she is a work in progress. Instead of taking the easy way out, buying a setting for less than a dollar, I scour antique stores and thrift shops and try to find items I can use from vintage costume jewelry. I also hunt for vintage rhinestones, charms, chains etc. This piece had a cabochon in it. I pulled out the cab, sanded off the old gold finish (yuck) from the pendant, and blackened the base metal. I looked through my stash of rhinestones and found the perfect size to go around the outside to frame my beautiful Saint Marie. I laugh and question myself, why do I go to all of this trouble??? Does anyone else do this? Or is it just me?
