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Cool jewelry

Tsoniki — Wed, 31 May 2006 18:54:01 +0000

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!

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May Roundup

Tsoniki — Tue, 30 May 2006 21:15:20 +0000

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!

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Flowers

Tsoniki — Fri, 05 May 2006 22:28:13 +0000

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.

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