When we were in Paris, my husband wanted to visit some comic book stores - he always likes to visit those. We found the Arwen Evenstar necklace in one of them - the one from Noble Collection - and he gifted it to me.
They told us to use it only over clothes, or we would risk it losing its shine. Since I already had a real jewel necklace, I decided to simply put this one on display. So I perused Amazon, in search of the display glass dome, also by Noble Collection.
Unfortunately, the only one I found in Europe was selling for more than $200, which was a price I was not willing to pay. Then I looked for it in the Noble Collection website, but even though the actual display cost about $35 there was a charge of almost $50 for shipping to my country.
So I decided to make my own.
I started by searching for an adecuate display dome, and found this one:
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| It measures 9 x 13 cm, so it was perfect! |
I did not want it to be very big, so when I saw the size I snatched it immediately. Then I purchased a template for a necklace display, like the ones you can see in jewelry shops, from Etsy.
I reduced it in size, printed it, traced it over 2 mm cardboard, cut it and covered it with black suede paper. The result was fantastic:
It looks beautiful! All in all, I did not spend more than 15 euros for everything. Now the necklace rests next to our The Lord of the Rings books:
