Tuesday Tips, make a short necklace LONG

Here is a little tip I use a lot,

You can have a lovely necklace, but if its not the perfect length, it just doesn't work right with whatever outfit, and   I really don't like feeling like I am being choked. 

Well you can easily extend those short necklaces and make them longer

With these few supplies.



attach the clasp to one end of a piece of chain, the jump ring on the other end,  the length of chain will determine how long your necklace will be.

not long enough for this shirt.

only slightly longer but much better,  I might make a longer extender for this one, but then you would have a picture of my gut.... I didn't think you deserved that.

Now here is my favorite bracelet,  I fell in love with it when buying some shoes for my daughter, and in the bag it went... only when I gave my little darling the bag, she thought WOW, thanks for the bracelet mom, I am going to wear it on the first day of school......   What was I supposed to say?  So I borrow it a lot. haha

With an extra large extender it can be an awesome necklace.  You can even just use ribbon.  EEEEK I LOVE IT!

Thrifty Thursday - Pearls

super easy super fast and super cheap bracelet.

It is just what I was hoping it would be...   fast, dainty, and white.

start with a string of cheap knock of pearls or other beads.  You can sometimes find them on sale for around a buck or two.  and it really is time conusming if you are going to thread that many beads yourself.

double it up and thread a crimp bead onto the ends, add a larger pearl or even a button,  put the string back through the crimp bead and squish it!

You will need to play with it to figure out how big the loop needs to be to fit it over your pearl, this will be the closure, no clasp required here.

then......YOU ARE DONE. 

SUPER CUTE         SUPER FAST           SUPER CHEAP           SUPER EASY

If you need clarification on any instructions just let me know in a comment.
♥ Becky

Tuesday Tips - Jewelery

There are so many cute jewelery organizers on the craft blogs, I even made a couple of them, but none of them were very practical for me, and I was always loosing jewelery!!   UNTIL NOW
I don't remember where I first saw this, but it made a huge difference in how long it takes me to get ready in the morning, and being able to find stuff.  I always put my jewelery away now, no more earrings laying around.  Because I LOVE to see it full of earrings.

Who doesn't have a cooling rack laying around, and even a bulletin board you aren't using.   - thrift store maybe??

 The Necklaces and bracelets are on a bulletin board covered in fabric,  they both hang in the bathroom, so I can try several on quickly to decide which one to wear,

I know, I know what you are thinking,  I have a jewelery problem.  *sigh,  My excuse, Jewelery is never too tight or too small, it fits just right and if I didn't shower a pair of earrings makes a world of difference.

Thrifty Thursday- rug and earrings

Here are some dollar store earrings. I really don't nee more silver earrings, and I almost never wear gold. However, I sure could use some black or brown earrings.  So I whipped out the trusty Krylon Spray paint.

I can't wait to wear them, I am a kind of obsessed with earrings. 

Here is the rug from Monday's post,  It is made with 6 dollar store jute rugs.  I tied them together with a ball of Jute.  I love it,  To go buy a rug this size would be about 40 or 50 bucks.  I hope my 6 dollar rug will last a while, for 6 bucks its worth a shot!

My New Favorite Necklace

This is my new favorite necklace, I made this recently with random supplies I already had.  Two types Left over chain pieces, and lots of charms, The charms came from all kinds of places,  a simiple necklace, and old best friend necklace proably 20 years old and a couple of lonely earings that lost their mate. 
Anyway my point is that you can find this stuff all over your house and you probably didn't  even realize that you had what you need to make an awesome one of a kind  necklace
 all along.

Anthro- Copy Cat

I had bought a necklace with 8 or 9 of those big metal flowers, I knew from that moment that I woudl be remaking it, I just really didn't know which way to go.  TOO many ideas.  But when I saw this one Sachiko made on her blog Tea Rose Home.  I was SOLD!!

**Sachiko's Hometown was actually hit by the earthquake in Japan, she is still waiting to hear from one of her sisters.  Please say a prayer for them, I know I will!

I tried to upload a picture of hers, but my server won't let me?? Check out her blog to see it.

A few new things.

The Abigail Necklace. I wanted something springy. This necklace may be young. So I made it 25 inches. so it would be the longer style on a young lady or shorter style for a more mature woman. (ha that meand old in polite language right?) I think I will make the earrings smaller. hmmm. This will be in my shop soon.

The Kate Necklace. shorter style can be lengthened. The chain itself is only about 20" Anything you purchase in my shop can be altered in length for a minimal fee. Sometimes for free.

This necklace I LOVE LOVE LOVE. I had to name it the Kristin Sue. she will know exactly why. although I think Sunnie already has dibbs. I will be making more in this style. Adding fabric flowers to jewelry is so much fun. It is all over at the NAME brand websites too.

If you have any requests of something you would like to see in my shop or a custom order I can happily take them at any time. I will only be doing custom orders for the next two months, after that I may have to take time off for moving. ((YIKES))

I will be adding MANY things to my shop later today. Including several beaded watchband kits.

Washer Necklaces tutorial

This is the first type of washer necklace I made. Its not quite as easy as it sounded, so I am here to give you some pointers on what I learned.
The metal stamp kit was only 5.95 at Harbor Freight and washers are about a quarterish?? but buy way more than you need. You will have many mistakes trying to get it just right. But the first step is the most important.
1. Take some Ibuprofen for the headache you are about to get from all the pounding!!


2. Hold the stamp toward the bottom. Double check to make sure it is right-side up etc. I tried to stamp all of my kids names in a circle. For some reason I have never been able to get the w to work...ever..? and I had to abreviate McKinley to Mck. Well she is used to that anyway. Hammer it 5 to 10 times, or a couple of times HARD. Experiment with this.
3. The last step is to color the whole thing in black permanent marker, a few minutes later wipe it off using hairspray.

4. To hang it I wrapped the washer in wire, and attached a jumpring to the wire, and the ring to the necklace. Then I hung a bead from the wire using a head pin. I got many compliments on it.



The other thing I did this weekend was make a few headbands. I have finally convinced McK. that big flowers are cute in her hair, but with her short hair they need to be on a headband. I will show more on the How to later, but I needed somewhere to put them and found that a skinny mouthed vase works best. I pulled this out of the back of my cupboard and was so happy, now I can display this vase I bought from and artist on the beach in Costa Rica. It makes me smile. :)

A few new things

I finally got around to making a pin cushion, it was badley needed since I have been sewing a little more than I used to.

this other jewelry are some of the things I made while I was in Boise for Presidents day. And they are my fav. jewelry that I have made. ♥

Jewelry

I hope you will forgive me for the horrible photography. I have been having so much fun, stayin up late watching TV and making jewelery, but I sure have a lot of it.

pearls and shell necklace

colorful

size small

white flowers size small

green bracelet
green brown and tan bracelet
white chandelier
colorful stone bracelet

Black earings

black stone earings












black antique
triple drop earings.

more jewelry

childs bracelet pink and white


black gray, and white necklace (17")
long "autumn" necklace 33"


"summer" necklace (17"), and bracelet