Miniature Red Silk Georgian Slipper Brooch Festival On good quality silver-filled earring

On good quality silver-filled earring hooks

It is likely that these miniature cricket balls were given as prizes to competitions

What's lovely about them is that they are very lightweight and made of thin vintage plastic

A tiny vintage tin parrot from Japan has been reinvented into a stylish and colourful brooch

Miniature Red Silk Georgian Slipper Brooch Festival On good quality silver-filled earringThis little antique red slipper with it's tiny cream tassle is really old. It is handmade and was used to hold a thimble back in the Georgian times when many ladies did a lot of sewing. I have in turn, sewn it onto an oval background and edged with beads to give it a new lease of life as a brooch as it's far too pretty to be hidden away in a cupboard, sewing box or dawer.