I've been plying around with the various bits and pieces I got for the girdle, trying to make them look like they belong together. The portrait piece is made of really large components and its pretty much entirely gold. I haven't been able to find pieces of the right scale, nor enough of them. Maybe it would be easier if it was closer to Christmas and I could go ornament shopping. So, I decided to do as I'd done with the necklace and abandon the idea of doing something that looked like the portrait and go for something that wouldn't look out of place. I started by putting a pearl in the center of the filigree buttons and adding some of the red glass jewels I used in the necklace to the large oval bits with metal and jewelry glue.. It unified things a bit, but the shapes didn't transition well, Luckily, I found a really interesting bracelet with a great shaped plaque. The original pieces looked like the one on the far left, with the 4 half round cream dots. I pried those off, as well as the crystal in the center. Then I put a button pearl in the center and red beads in the place of the cream. The smaller size of the red beads shows more of the gold base piece which I like a lot. There were three of the bracelet, so I ended up with 15 plaques Between the red cabachons and some pearls as well as some smaller gold bits, I think I'm going to end up with enough length. Its actually a pretty long girdle, since there is an extension for the zibellino. The glue should cure tonight and I can try assembling everything tomorrow and see how close it comes.
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