It's finally happened, your grandmother's $30 rhinestones are now so out they're in again.

Or at least they will be, if Bermudian jewellery enthusiast Jennifer Rodrigues has anything to do with it.

Mrs. Rodrigues will be selling vintage jewellery at a crafts fair and flea market today at St. Mary's Church Hall.

The crafts fair will also include books, plants, handmade cards, knitted and crocheted items, doll clothes and much more.

"I have been playing with collecting beads and restringing jewellery for about 23 years now," said Mrs. Rodrigues. "It has always been very much a hobby. I love to do it for family as gifts. I just keep collecting and buying so I decided I needed to do something with it."

She thought the craftsmarket and fair would be a way to bring different crafters together to share their work with the community.

Mrs. Rodrigues was first introduced to jewellery making at a karate class.

"A friend of mine showed me how to make earrings," said Mrs. Rodrigues. "She showed me the basics.

"From that day on, I started collecting beads. Every time I went on vacation to different countries, I would look for beads."

She added to her knowledge by reading instructional books, and basic trial and error.

"I find the vintage jewellery at house sales, and also on on-line websites such as eBay. When I'm away I go to different flea markets."

She particularly likes to collect pins and broaches.

"I have about 400 pins," she said. "A lot of people don't wear clip-on earrings anymore so I turn a lot of that into broaches."

Her favourite broach has a porcelain face with a hand-painted picture of a schnauzer.

She likes this one, because she has a schnauzer called 'Shaggy Do Muffin Boy Rodrigues', known informally as 'Shaggy Do'.

"On the website Facebook he is wearing pearls," she said with a laugh. "But normally I don't accessorise him."

She sells some of her jewellery finds and fix-ups, but a lot of it becomes gifts for her family.

Mrs. Rodrigues also makes jewellery for wedding parties.

"For the wedding stuff it is very inexpensive and affordable," she said. "I use real pearls, Schwartz crystal and Sterling silver.

"If they want to pay for gold, I will offer that, but I try to make jewellery more affordable. I think people should be able to afford to have handmade gifts. I think handmade gifts are so much more appreciated. I, personally, appreciate handmade gifts."

She will also do repair and restringing work.

" I just charge labour costs for that," she said. "I have quite a few customers who ask me to make a single stranded necklace into a double, and that sort of thing."

Mrs. Rodrigues said she was excited by the turn out of crafts people expected for the crafts fair today.

"This is the first craft and flea market we have pulled off," she said. "It is completely full and I don't have any spaces left for vendors.

"It is a real mixture. We have a lady who does silver metal claywork. There is a lady who is making hand purses.

"There is also crochet and a man with a religious book display, among other things."

The crafts and flea market will be in St. Mary's Church Hall, No. 2 St. Mary's Road, Warwick from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.