Somerset Matchbox Pendant Necklace

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Group:	Somerset Style
Swap Coordinator:	jukejan (contact)
Swap categories:	Boxes
Number of people in swap:	8
Location:	International
Type:	Type 3: Package or craft
Last day to signup/drop:	April 23, 2016
Date items must be sent by:	May 28, 2016
Number of swap partners:	1
Description:
Somerset Life showed a really sweet matchbox pendant with a little girl stamped on the outside and when you slide the box open her legs (2 match sticks) appeared on a text background. I was enchanted and thought this would be fun to do with our own twist. The matchbox will be altered, paper, paint, embellished, however you wish and when you slide the box open there is something related to the outside glued in place. There are so many possibilities! Please use a ribbon or chain or other means to hang your pendant for wearing. I have enjoyed wearing may swapbot creations and the always get favorable comments, so here is an opportunity to make living wearable art. I am giving lots of lead timefor this swap. This is artists choice. I will check profiles and I know we are responsible swappers, but I maintain the right to discuss any potential problems I may have with your ratings, etc.

Discussion

thebragal 03/19/2016 #

I love this idea but a matchbox is bigger than something I'd wear. Hope you get some participants.

homeandheart 03/20/2016 #

Thank you!!! I was WANTING one of these!!!!! Watching till I clear some stuff. These are so fun!

jukejan 03/21/2016 #

No size requirement on the box size. I have some commercial ones that are very small.

ShabbyJules 03/21/2016 #

sounds fun to hang as a decoration on my craft room im in

sewingmistress 04/10/2016 #

How would you make the box hang open like that when the necklace is worn, do you have any directions or site of article, I can't wrap my head around how to dangle legs.

sewingmistress 04/10/2016 #

What part of the box would we attach the ribbon to? Inside the box?

homeandheart 04/11/2016 #

@sewingmistress If you push the matchbox UP to open, with the girls image on the front you can hang matchsticks or paper legs from tiny eye hooks or something so they dangle. However it just an idea. If you check out matchbox pendants or shrines on Google or pinterest it will give you better visuals. You can attach ribbon to the outside sides of the box, or punch 2 holes in the box and thread it. Hope that helps some.

jukejan 04/13/2016 #

Sorry that I was off in sunny Mexico for a week and could not respond to questions! Thanks to Jody for stepping up!!

homeandheart 04/13/2016 #

Welcome back, you luck gal! ðŸ˜„ If I read this correctly it doesn't have to be a doll. It can be a bird house that you open to see a bird or nest, a tree and squirrel, a throne and king, a tiny fridge that opens to reveal food etc. It's a swap based on the outside opening up to something that coordinates with the inside.

homeandheart 04/13/2016 #

lucky

jukejan 04/15/2016 #

Yes, that is an accurate observation, Jody. The matchbox can be decorated with anything tiny that you wish & that coordinates inside to outside. I love the examples you cited and saw wonderful tiny things at the stores to display inside the box. So many interesting objects can be displayed and then closed up in the "drawer".

jukejan 05/22/2016 #

I am the host and I missed the POST OFFICE hours on Sat. I contacted my swap partner. Mea Culpa!

Sandara333 05/24/2016 #

Wait, it's not due till the 28th janðŸ˜ƒ

homeandheart 05/25/2016 #

Thank you to everyone who joined the swap!!!

needlewings 05/26/2016 #

This was such a fun swap! I had to hang onto my piece to show to another women's group I am in so they could see it before it get sent off. Gosh, makes me want to keep it! lol We need a gallery to view all of these beauties!

jukejan 05/31/2016 #

My dear Swappers! So sorry !!!! Can't read my own swap~

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