DIY Bib Necklace

I made this awhile ago, but when I put it on, I thought it would be a fun little post to share. It was a nice and easy project!



I used different textures of fabric to make the flowers, different beads and rhinestones all glued to a base of a piece of felt, then added a chain to the sides with a clasp.

Sorry its not the greatest self picture....(and I also made my tank top, which I will be posting a little how-to probably next week :))

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Make new earrings from old jewelry

I have been loving all of the cute cabachon type jewelry I have been seeing for awhile. There's just so many possibilities from it!

I was going through my jewelry and saw this bracelet that I had but never wear and figured as earrings, they would be worn a lot more!

 I took two of the roses pieces off, glued them onto some blank posts I picked up at the craft store for a dollar.

Tada! A new pair of earrings that will get worn a lot more than the bracelet did! 

I want to make more!!

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Hexagon Nut Bracelet

Happy Monday! This is a strange day for me. For the past ten years I have known my husband, he has always had Mondays off. But he had an exciting opportunity at work that I am so proud of him for and starting today begins a new schedule for at least three months. There's a bit of an adjustment but so far so good. My laundry is being done earlier, my errands have more company since I brought the kids along (I am trying to look at this positively!), ya know. But the kids definitely need to adjust their sleeping schedule since they are now along for the ride with the school drop off. We can do it!

This weekend, I made a really fun and inexpensive bracelet from this tutorial at because Im addicted. What's really cool is I did a search  and found this necklace with the same idea for 325.00!  Since I am feeling lazy, here's a picture straight from my phone of my version



I bought size 6 hexagon nuts in a 22 pack for 1.18 and household twine for 2.50 at Lowes. My husband says it looks like a giant zipper. I just like it! Try it for yourself!

Now off to find out how to take gum off skin. My toddler has it stuck all over her big baby belly! (Scared to find out where the rest of it is!)


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Valentine's Day Swap

Posting these kind of late, but I wanted to share a gift I made for a Valentine's day swap that I did with some mommy friends :) Sometimes, its nice to do things amongst each other that is not about the kids! 

Gift box:

Hair Clips for Mommy to sweep hair out of her face....my favorite accessory these days

Necklace with her sons' names on it

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Fabric Flower Clips

The other night I needed a hair accessory to spruce up a shirt I was wearing so I decided to make some flower clips. 

I used:

hot glue

fabric

tulle 

pearls

hair clips

stretchy lace

To make, I just freehanded a bunch of sizes of five petal styled flowers, layered with tulle scraps. For the centers, I added some pearls from an old necklace that I was never going to wear again. Hot glue each letter and attach to a clip.

I made one and decided it needed to be a headband, so I tied a piece of stretchy lace around my head, and then attached the clip to the headband. I added  two more flower clips from there. That way, everything is interchangable and not permanent!

The whole time I did this, my sweet baby girl was sleeping next to me, and so I decided she needed one too and did the same process. 

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Baby Bracelet

I think every girl's first piece of jewelry should come from her Daddy. This daddy even  got the supplies and made it himself. (The picture doesn't show how sparkly and tiny it is in real life.)

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DIY A Necklace Organizer

My jewelry has been out of control for awhile, and I was really getting tired of digging for it in random places in my dresser! I organized it all in my tiny little jewelry box and then took the "fun" necklaces (aka the really big ones) and decorated a board and hung it up in the closet...out of the way and now I can actually see what I have when I am getting dressed! I had all the materials here and it went really fast.  I am sure I am not the first person to come up with this but I thought I would share...

What I used:

1x4 board cut to desired length

patterned paper ..I used double sided and 3 pieces of different patterns.

mod podge

brush

paint

cup hooks

Now whenever I find the straggler necklaces that are MIA, I will officially be organized! (And there is room for a second one too :))

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Lensbaby and New Necklace

I got a lensbaby for my birthday last year and havent gotten it out as much as I had thought I would (and as much as my husband would like). It was kind of initimidating to me and I didnt know as much as I do now (not that I know that much at all now) so I never reached for it.

Today has been kind of an eh day for me. I dont feel like putting all this laundry away or do dishes from lunch (ok and breakfast) and I dont feel like anything else that makes a mess, so I took my camera outside and started shooting pictures of the plants around me. 

While I was outside, I remembered I made this necklace this morning after I got home from errands with the boys and thought how pretty it would be on one of the sunflowers blooming (we have a few now!)

Then I decided to take a deep breath and try the lensbaby again. Its been awhile. Played around with the settings and got this: 

I thought it would be fun to play around with it in photoshop too.

So I still need to work on the focus point (its manual focus) but I think I may be getting the lighting right?! Its a little bit dark still but its a start! Now I am excited to keep working with this lens.

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Little Tree, Little Tree

This week as I am getting ready for the upcoming boutique on Saturday, I was trying to think of a way to display the necklaces I have been working on. So today, my husband and I trekked to Home Depot to see what we could make.

 It first started out that we were going to do an easel type board that I would decorate and put hooks on.  Well. Home Depot just didnt have the right type of wood at the right price, and honestly, I wasn't feeling the easel board.

Then we went over to Lowe's, which I always like to go to a lot more. We looked at their wood and found something but I still wasn't feeling it.I kept mentioning doing a tree and he would just kind of ignore it.

I went over to the dowels to pick out little pegs instead of hooks and our brains kicked into gear and together we came up with this:

 I probably still will decorate it, but I have a lot of fun ideas for it in the future too!

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While the sewing takes over our bedroom..

thought I would post some of the jewelry I have been working on. I love the silver spoon jewelry and would really like to do more with spoons. 

My husband made the ring and I made the necklace (which is a little messy...first spoon I tried):

...and the washer necklaces. All will be for sale at the next boutique I am doing in addition to a few more.

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Took a sewing break.

Made a couple of necklaces with my mom and sister today. I am really enjoying making jewelry. I love having new stuff to freshen up boring outfits! 

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Metal Necklaces

Playing around a bit with metal stamping. Once I can get it down to a even pressure and straight looking, these will be in the etsy shop soon... I will be able to do custom ones! and I am hoping to get a smaller font on Sunday.

Perfect for Mother's Day coming up!



I have so many ideas with these. And extra add-ons with them as well.



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Fun New Jewelry!

This week I got to go make a couple of new necklaces at my mother in law's. She has the ultimate bead collection. I could have sat there for days creating new stuff!

But all good things must come to an end....here is what I made:









Every once in awhile I make a necklace or a bracelet, (and I even wear them!) but she is the true pro. I definitely want to do more now. Thanks for sharing with me! These are definitely going to be worn a lot! Pin It

Button Brooch

First off....tomorrow is the last day for the tshirt drawing! Everyone is making me drool with all of their favorite flavors! Mmmm!!

Today I took the boys to the library to get some books as they havent really been into the ones at the house lately. It was soooo hot and they were so not in the mood, so it was a pretty rushed trip.

I did however, check out a fun book to help with our Christmas gifts. I saw this idea and ran with it. Super fast and it can be used on pretty much anything you want to dress up. I think it would be fun to make a button headband and hair clips too! You can also pin this on your bag, shirt, etc. I know it might not be everyone's cup of tea, but I thought it was fun and funky! And I do love buttons.

What you need:
Hot Glue *they said craft glue but it takes two hours to dry and I am a hot glue addict.
buttons
cardboard- i used an old gum box...recycling!
scissors
pin back- again, I used an old one I wasnt using from something else.


Cut desired shape out of cardboard. Glue on bottons. Its best to do a layer of big buttons and then add smaller ones



Glue on pin back.


The end. Super easy!

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