Updating Vintage Earrings

On our recent trip to the mountains, we popped into Antiques on Howard, which is in downtown Boone, NC.  This shop has so many fun finds, but one item in the store really captured my attention:

This vintage pair of earrings.  They needed a little bit of TLC -- as you can see, they are screw-back earrings, and the earring in the back of the picture above was missing a rhinestone on the top right.

But they were just so gorgeous with the golden scrolly accents, the crystal rhinestones, and a pearl center.  I immediately fell in love.

I saw potential in them.  :)

And what is difficult to tell from the picture is that they have a blue enamel back that shows through the opening.

How gorgeous are they?!

So they came home with me to my little jewelry hospital.

I am bling-obsessed and love just about anything with rhinestones on it, which means that every so often I see rhinestones on our bathroom floor that have fallen out of something.  I keep them for a "just in case" moment.  I had four rhinestones on hand, and one of them fit the missing stone's opening very well.

Then I just converted the screw-back posts into regular posts.  Here they are now:

I'm wearing them today, in fact.

Silly me, I left out the best part!

Check the receipt below to see how much they set me back.

Yes, just $3.50.  And that is why I love antique store finds. 

Antiques on Howard is located at 199 Howard Street, Boone NC, 28607.