How to Accessorize With Jewelry

Necklaces, bracelets and earrings are good for more than just adorning your body. Use these ideas to get more use from the jewelry you've got sitting in a drawer by using it to accessorize other fashion accessories, pieces of clothing and even home décor items.

Instructions

1. Use earrings to decorate canvas tennis shoes, flip flops and even plain pumps. Clip a large earring on the front of a closed-toe shoe, on the strap of a sandal or on the back of a sneaker as a decorative touch. Push pierced earrings through the holes of lace-up shoes or through the rubber of a flip flop strap.

2. Dress up a plain purse by attaching a necklace along the strap with small stitches or by wrapping one around the handle as a glamorous touch. Attach chain bracelets to zippers as a pretty zipper pull.

3. Clip funky earnings through the open holes in a belt or wind a beaded bracelet or necklace around the leather once you've pulled it through the belt loops.

4. Turn basic unadorned hats or plain hair clips and headbands into accessories with a designer look by adding jewelry with a vintage feel. Cluster a flowered bracelet on the corner of a hatband and affix it with a safety pin or adhesive dots. Use hot glue or small stitches to adhere a string of faux pearls across a headband or hook a dangling earring through the end of a hair clip.

5. Update home décor by accessorizing it with unused jewelry. Add a fabric choker around the base of a chunky candle or picture frame, adorn a fabric headboard with a long chain necklace or turn earrings into cute wine glass markers, for example.