I'm not sure if this is what you are asking for but I think her mosaic jewelry from bits of old china is very cool.

Here is a link that might be useful: Melissa's Motifs

luna llena thank you for your response. What beautiful necklaces. But the one I seen is just broken peices of china, then i guess she smoothed the rough edges and put foil tape all around it and then sodered it all. And put a bail on it. I think I can do it, but would just like to be able to see it. And would like to know all the tools I would need to make the different peices. I went to HL the other night and the thing to smooth the rough edges was 129.00...The sodering iron was 50.00. soder 12.00...I know is cost to start up things. But would like to know if I'm going in the right direction for this project....

Do you need to smooth the edges if you are taping them? Can you use a little dremel sander with those shapey heads to smooth edges? I was wondering about that with some adorable glass plates for flowers that a friend gave me, but the edges are very rough. What do people think? (I already have one of those so hoping it would work.
Sorry I'm not much help leveta, just more questions. I know that folks over at the mosaic forum buy tumblers and tumble their ceramics to smooth them. With the volume they do that makes sense.
kathy

They do have a diamond drill smoother that you can buy to do this. But it really doesn't tell you what to do, like if you have to use water or if you can use it dry.

I have been reading a blog by a woman who has been soldering charms.

http://perpetualplum.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/decisions-decisions-decisionsmore-winter-charms/

and here is one

http://alteredbelly.blogspot.com/2007/07/adventures-in-soldering.html

She mentions getting the Simply Swank starter kit. You can check it out and see what comes with it and the price here..

http://simplyswank.net/basic_kit?b=1

this kit is about $54 dollars. and it's pink :D

I'd love to do this with all sorts of odd pieces of china I saved. And those little glass bottles. But I'm clueless when it comes to this sort of thing. I asked my husband a while back "how"...and he bought a soldering iron for me. But he didn't know what else I'd need. So until I found these blogs I was still clueless :D

Here is a link that might be useful: Kudzu's Blog

That jewelry at Melissa Motif's is just beautiful! No two pieces exactly alike, love it. ~tenderlee

Yes her stuff is really beautiful... Just got and e-mail from margo. She has just what I'm looking for.
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Thanks for all the help. Seems like one ideal leads to others when checking out other sites...

kudzu what kind did he buy you? Is it a reg. one or is it one from a craft store?

You need to have a soldering iron which will heat up to the right temperature to melt the solder....some of the ones at the hardware store won't work...I got mine at www.delphiglass.com. And PLEASE make sure that you use lead free solder so that the jewelery is safe to wear. They also sell this at delphi. If the edges aren't too rough you can use a diamond pad rather than grinder but the edges have to be smooth or the foil won't stick. You also need to get a thick enough solder bead or the foil will peel off. If you go to the delphi web site they also have books that teach you how to do it. I'm not advertising for delphi...it is just where I get all my glass supplies....there are many others on the web if you look...just look for stained glass suppliers and they usually carry the other stuff too. leveta and anyone else who needs more help with this can email me...

Unless the broken piece is not shaped like you want it to be....I don't think you have to smooth it, if you are going to use the copper tape and solder it...I have a picture somewhere that I printed off a long time ago...it is a piece of broken dish with flowers on it..She did little bumps of the solder around the edge (on top of the copper tape. Made it almost look like a metal lace around it.

I'll see if I can find the picture...because I think it had the website address on it.

patti

This is not what I was looking for , but very similiar.

Take a look they have some neat stuff

Here is a link that might be useful: jewerly made from china shards

This link is more like the ones I like....these are really pretty...

Here is a link that might be useful: floral shards jewelry

Pattico, love those links you provided. I found a place that blew my socks off! I would LOVE to know how to make the pendents featured at this site!

Leveta, if you get if figured out, I can't wait to see what you make!

Here is a link that might be useful: Western Vintage Revival

Thanks everyone. I will check out everything. Pattico the first site was beautiful. I will check out the next 2 after grandbabys go home. luna llena thank you also. This will be a winter project. So it may be awhile. But when I get something made there will be pic's.

I saw this on Tv last year.

You dont need any fancy tools.

Good luck.

Here is a link that might be useful: DiynetworkRecycle, Reuse, Reward: Broken China Jewelry by Pattie Donham

Thank you whiskey, I added this to my fav's...