Recently, I finished a neckpiece, and took it along to a family reunion. 
While showing it to a cousin, another relative came by, and suggested, “Oh, it looks like it could work this way too!” “Hey, cool!” we think. It looks good on my cousin both ways! She likes the idea of being able to have two looks with one piece of jewelry, too. The problem is to make it hang well in both orientations, AND be easy for her arthritic fingers to manage. Here is what I came up with for the pendant orientation. It needed a pearl drop as a visual “punctuation mark”, and an M-shaped component which makes it hang correctly, and makes it easier to hook the parts together. These two items are left at home in the jewelry box when she wants to wear the piece as a choker.
Sea-ish XIV
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Beth Wicker 11.23.08 at 8:13 am
Very cool design solution - I can see a real market for something a lady can wear more than one way. Thanks for sharing!