Idea for a key necklace

[breakinglight11]

Ideas to do and make things pop into my little head on a fairly regular basis, as you've likely gleaned by now. Ideas involving furniture or audio drama or fish dishes that tend to end up here on the blog in excruciating detail. Now I've taken it into my head that I want a key necklace, and since I couldn't find one that matched my typically exacting mental image of a simple piece with a big, elegant but not too ornate brass key on a long matching chain, I have decided to make my own.

To that end, I have made two inexpensive eBay purchases to attain the key-necklace-satisfaction I desire. The first arrived the other day in a padded mailer, the aforementioned big, elegant but not too ornate brass key.

It's about four inches long and heavy for its size, advertised as belonging once to the lock on a chest of drawers. I am very pleased with it. I have also purchased a chain of twenty-four inches to loop through it. I want one of those old-fashioned necklaces that dangles very low on the bosom, but that may be a little too long. I can always shorten if it I desire, though, so better too much chain than too little. When it arrives I'll put them together and wear it with some whimsical ensemble which you will be most assuredly privileged to see in photographs here. :-)

Comments

[in-water-writ.livejournal.com]

At some point very soon, I am going to buy spools/spindles of chain in with different link sizes and metals. If the one you get is long enough that it falls awkwardly, but short enough that if it were longer, it would fall right, let me know, because I would be happy to cut you a chain in whatever length you like.

[nennivian.livejournal.com]

Every time I see a key necklace, I automatically want to assume that its wearer is showing allegiance to Nennivia and the house of Norst. Whether or not this is actually the case, I am always pleased to see another person playing into my fantasy (though perhaps unwittingly). ;)
Your key is absolutely lovely.

[breakinglight11.livejournal.com]

Oh, you're the one who has a key necklace, aren't you? I was thinking recently about how I'd seen one on someone I knew and that I liked it a lot, but I couldn't remember who it was!

[nennivian.livejournal.com]

Both Sam and I have them.
(I'd like to say I've had mine longer, but I don't actually know if it's true, and of course it doesn't really matter.)

[cristovau.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine has a skeleton key jewelry shop.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/silverowlcreations?ref=seller_info

Good stuff, although not plain and simple. If you feel the need to decorate this key, there are lots of good ideas here.