I found this bracelet in one of the jewelry magazines I subscribe to and had to make it. After a quick trip to Lowe’s (which sucked because their customer service, at least at this store closest to me, is horrible!!) and a dash to the only jewelry supply store closer then a half hour away, I came home and made it in about a half hour. I’m sure I could do it faster next time, but I was also keeping the kids away from my supplies at the same time.

Yep those are washers! Two different sizes and 10mm jump rings, closed with a magnetic closure. How cool! The magazine had a few different projects you could do with things from the hardware store, which all looked fun but this one caught my eye.

I also did a full bracelet with clay beads - I need a new camera, the original picture looked fine but sort of dull. And then I brightened it with my software and wow talk about bright! The beads are bright but not this much. LOL

Here is a cool memory wire bracelet I made - I just grabbed some random beads and stuck then on. It’s a nice quick thing and since there are so many colors it goes with a lot of different clothes items.

Okay finally back on track of posting! I have a swap partner - yay! - and I need to get my questionaire posted, I’ll get that done today. I’m sure I have more stuff to share too!

May has been busy! It is getting hotter and hotter around here and we have been living in the water. Well, what little water we can live in - which means the slip and slide. The kids have been out there every day which is fun, but just shows me how much I “need” a laptop or a way to get my crafts outside with me! We have a great screened in porch and a swing we bought back in WA set up in there, so I hace a nice place to sit while the kids play.

I didn’t do too many green crafts this month - this bracelet was one ~

That uses three clay beads, glass beads with flower designs and a few cats eye beads. I made it for my daughter, she picked out the flower beads.

I also attempted to make leaf beads - for use with my flower beads I made before.

And here are some circle ones that didn’t quite turn out!

May was a good craft/creating month for me. I haven’t played with clay for a couple of weeks now, I’ve been making jewelry instead! I love it, I cleaned up my office and had a huge stack of jewelry magazines. Of course they are half ads, which I don’t like, so I went through and tore the magazines apart. I picked my favorite designs, or ones that I would like to make at some point, and put those pages into a binder. Since doing that I’ve made five or six items - I should have tore them up earlier!

More soon as I want to share the jewelry I made!

ETA: All the pictures I post here will be in my flickr as well - there is a badge over there to the right!

Orange polymer clay beads

I love these flower beads - I found the project by watching Jewelry Making and have been going crazy with various colors. I have a pile of flower beads now (pictures coming) and lots of jewelry ideas but nothing made yet.