Wow! We got thunder today. It didn't rain where we live, but about 20 miles away, they got a shower. I turned the TV off just so I could listen to the thunder. Haven't heard it in quite some time.
Then, tonight I go outside and I see a beautiful full moon. My husband tells me it has been full for several nights. Ok, I don't get out at night. I don't like the dark!
My great grand daughter will be '1' this Sunday. Just seems like yesterday when she was born. My grandson's finance' also has a birthday Sunday. July is a busy month at our place for birthdays!
I have had a productive craft/jewelry making day. Let's start off with a recycled peanut butter jar. When I worked at Walmart, we had peanut butter and bread in our break room and we saved the jars and recycled. One year we filled 200 jars with craft kits (that we created) and took them to our local youth center for them to hand out to the kids. Once, we filled jars with items for one of our nursing homes.
I needed something to put the jewelry strands in that I planned to work on next. I had this jar in the kitchen, so I cleaned it up and decorated it.
I just cut scrapbook paper with 2 different patterns and glued them around the jar. I used a purple piece of cardstock and traced around the jar lid and cut the paper to fit. After I glued that on, I found a die cut flower, so I finished lid with this decoration.
Then I glued on a paper label. I didn't want to write on it since I might use this jar for other things. I went through my scrapbook supplies and found a necklace sticker. Perfect. As you can see, it didn't take me long to fill the jar.
The bracelet above is made with glass beads. As you can tell, some beads have black stripes and some have black polka dots. I used a large gold toggle and small black beads as spacers.
Several years ago I was shopping the clearance at Hobby Lobby and found this patch. It was just the
the patch. I found it while looking for something else and got some chain together and an old earring and made a necklace.
Punched tiny holes in the patch and added the two pieces of chain to the bottom. Then I added a long piece of chain to the top of the patch. The chain wasn't the same style or color but I thought it looked good. To top if off, I added an old dangle earring to the bottom. It hangs in front of the two bottom chains. Now, to figure out what I am going to wear it with. Or, who to give it to as a gift. Decisions! Decisions!
My latest necklace. I have been so wrapped up in the charm bracelets I am making that I decided to put together a necklace using beads that are left from other projects. They are various styles, colors, lengths, etc. The chain is currently 30", but I plan to cut it down to 26" or what length do you think it should be? Let me know what about this project.
How to make it: Get head pins, asst. beads, jewelry wire cutter, round nose plier and regular jewelry plier. Also, jump rings in your choice of size.
I just started loading the beads on the head pin and when I got the length I liked, cut it, made a loop, attached it with a jump ring to the necklace chain. I put two of these in each length. I didn't want to go all around the chain. I made this so you can wear it under your collar and the chains will show underneath. Or, just put it over a tee and have fun!
Hope you enjoyed these projects today. Please leave your questions, ideas, comments in the box below. Have a great evening and a fun tomorrow. Until next time - Jan
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