Jewellery Makes

Since I started this blog I have only really been showing my sewn stuff. My other thing is making jewellery.

It was back in February when I attended a little workshop on how to make simple jewellery that I got interested. I intended to learn how to make jewellery as I wanted to add embellishments to my makeup bags, like the bits on my zip pulls:



...and it kind of snowballed from there. I became more and more into making jewellery and less into sewing. Recently it has swung back to sewing, but who knows what’s next, I am a bit sporadic!

I got my jewellery making stuff out today to make a bracelet to send to a friend and I thought that I should let you see some of my recent makes. Please forgive the quality of the pictures some of these were taken before I discovered the macro button:

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Remember Yo-Yo’s?

Remember me getting carried away a couple of weeks ago and making a mountain of yo-yo’s? Well I have used a couple of them on a phone cover and I did sew a few together to make a brooch, and then I went a bit mad and attached lots of them together and attached a length of chain to each end and ended up with a Yo-Yo Necklace.

To be honest it’s not something I could wear, apart from anything it is not suitable for women with big boobs it kind of just sits there like a bib (I pulled it up as high as I could and stretched my neck up like a goose to take the photograph below)!

I think they are quite sweet and would look good against a plain high neck tee shirt, just not if it is filled out with big boobs.

Perhaps this will be unpicked and stitched to the front of a bag of some sort in the near future, watch this space.

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Haircuts and Trampolines

Well, I did it, I had my haircut and it's actually different to the usual cut I have every time. I have had about 6 inches cut off the length!! It's very drastic for me, but I am getting used to it, when I feel braver I will post a picture of it.

We have spent hours today fiddling about at the back of the garden, my DH dismantled the old trampoline and it has found a new home as our Nephew has claimed it. The new one took lots of tugging and effort, and a couple of little swear words, and after a long afternoon it was ready and the kids were really pleased and spent about 1 hour playing....... with the box!!!!

Then after the novelty of the huge box wore off they actually gave the trampoline a go, it's rather huge, much larger than the last one (i'm quite glad it is tucked away at the back of the garden)!

And it's a hit!

However, this means that I was not able to get anything crafty done at all. I did however buy a nice purple glass bead necklace from the charity shop today for £1.30, which will be chopped up and made into something else, so that's preparation for crafting I guess, does that count?

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Sewing, beads and bits and bobs..

As mentioned yesterday, here are a few bits and bobs I have been making recently. I don't really have a plan for any of it, I simply enjoy making it. Some of it has already been given away as gifts to friends and family I guess at the end of the year when I have a stash of stuff I will have to do a craft fair or sell online.

Most of my beads and fabrics were previously something else, or were bargains. I am unable to pay full price for anything and I am always on the lookout for bargains. Now and again however, something comes along that I just have to have at any price, but I think my general thriftyness makes up for it somewhere along the way (is there such a thing as thrifty karma?)

Some of my fabric makes:

Some of my jewellery / beading makes:

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Kandi

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