Charmed, I’m sure

 

Hmm, I wonder how many times I've used that post title.   Seems rather well-worn.

More teeny collectibles.  I wish I could say that I've been collecting these treasures over the years but actually I bought them all in one swell foop.   I do have a couple left over from a phase I was in about 15 years ago.  Back when those pins with all the watch parts and doo-dads were so popular.  You used to see them at Art & Wine festivals and I, as I so often do, thought to myself – heck I can make those. 

I can't tell you how many watches I smashed to get the little parts. 

 

I am not revisiting that creative phase.  I've been using them in my collage pages.  I was wracking my brain, trying to remember where I bought them 15 years ago.  I don't recall seeing anything like this in any craft or bead store I've been in lately. 

A Google search turned up a company that has a gazillion of these charms.  Rather low-frills website but the selection is amazing.  Any shape, size, design heart you can think of, body parts, bugs, birds, crowns, fairies, animals - you name it.  

 

The detail in some of them is just amazing.  The heart in the first picture, for instance.  Love that – I think it is my favorite one.  The prices are very reasonable – I paid anywhere from 30 cents to a little over two dollars (for the larger, more detailed pieces). 

The name of the company is Fancifuls, Inc. and they are located in New York.  I am all the way on the other side of the country and I had my order in just a few days.

It was a bit hard to guess the size of some of them because they basically just have a photograph of a page full of charms (hundred of pages) for you to view.  The page is 8 1/2 x 11 inches so you can kind of guess.  They figured out about 100 pages in to include a ruler or a coin for scale. 

Anyway, if you are looking for metal embellishments for any craft project you will not be disappointed in their selection.  The hard part is not going hog wild and ordering all of them.