Ribbon & Bead Necklace

Here is a necklace that I made that was originally inspired by the sweet & crafty Khadija from Creative Mind's cute spring-inspired necklace - I loved her use of ribbon in the necklace and I couldn't wait to try my own version, so here it is!

I used Khadija's "pattern" for the most part, just with my own little tweaks here and there.  As for the rest, I used beads and a pendant that I had in my beading supply.  Fortunately I had those red round beads that matched the ribbon exactly. :)

Meet my little hippo model:

 

As cute as she is, I probably really need to get myself one of those necklace display "doll" neckline thingies, huh?

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Sugar Bee Crafts            Vintage Wanna Bee
Today's Creative Blog 
I'm Topsy Turvy             Rook No. 17
The Blackberry Vine      The Shabby Chic Cottage
Somewhat Simple          Tales from Bloggeritaville
It's Sew Stinkin' Cute     Beyond the Picket Fence
Mel Dreams Often        Crystal's Craft Spot
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Beaded Ankle Bracelet & Sweet Potato Muffins

While we were at the sea just over a week ago, I took with some beading supplies to keep me busy, so after finishing the table cloth weights, I made an ankle bracelet, because the only other one I have has blue beads on it and it doesn't always match my outfits, so I made one with silver & clear beads - much more versatile! :)

Simple enough.  I just used the same 3 beads through out, thought out a sequence for attaching the dangles and that was that.

 

Easy peasy.  When I'm bored again or find myself with nothing to do on a long road trip or something, I'll be making more of these in different colours. :)

And then I wanna share a sweet potato muffin recipe that I found on Mom's Crazy Cooking.  They're so easy to make and I just happened to have a bag of sweet potatoes hanging around, so I tried 'em and they're good!

You can find the recipe at Mom's Crazy Cooking - her recipe calls for pumpkin spice but I didn't have any so I used ordinary baking mixed spice and it worked perfectly.  I made half with chocolate chips and half without, but they're both equally good.  It only makes 12 medium muffins though, so I may have to double this recipe when I make it again. :)

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Crystal's Craft Spot      Truly Lovely
I Heart Nap Time         Under the Table & Dreaming

Beaded Watch Bracelet

I've made another bracelet - a beaded watch bracelet this time.  My favourite watch was stolen a couple years ago (boo) and so I've just never got around to buying a new one.  I had this watch face in my beading stash that I bought at least 2 years ago and it's just been lying there...not sure why it was waiting so long to be turned into something useful, but anyway...

Since I've been in the mood to make bracelets these last few days, I thought I'd make this beaded watch bracelet! :D  I stuck to neutral colours (black, silver & clear glass) so that I would be able to wear it with as many outfits as possible:

I made this bracelet a summery garden theme with the use of glass leaves and butterfly charms.

It's so full of different beads that it was a pain in the bum to get a photo showing the beads individually, so this is the best I've got:

Now all I need is a battery for the watch.

While my beading mojo has returned for the time being, I've found myself ordering some more beads online (hehe) - you know how they say you can NEVER have too many craft supplies?  Well, it's true (if not MORE so) for beading. :)  So hopefully my soon-to-be-arriving beads will get some more beading creative juices flowing. :D

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Making the World Cuter                 C.R.A.F.T.
Sumo's Sweet Stuff                         I'm Topsy Turvy
This & That                                    Today's Creative Blog

Purple Beaded Bracelet

I loved this bracelet that I made this past weekend, so decided to make another one! I used purple colours for this one though - I've had these lovely flowery purple fimo beads for AGES but didn't know what to make with them, so I finally used 'em in this bracelet today:

The fimo beads reminded me of a garden, so I went with a garden theme for this bracelet - some of the other charms I added were glass leaves and butterfly charms.
Here's just a close up of the charms I put together:

I love these fimo beads! I've added some more of them in different colours to my online beadshop shopping basket now that I know what I'd like to use them for. :D

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Making the World Cuter                    C.R.A.F.T.
Sumo's Sweet Stuff                            This & That
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Beaded Bracelet

Making the beaded bookmarks yesterday got me in the mood to make more beaded things, so I made myself a bracelet too!

Here are just some close ups of the different charms I made:

I used prettily painted wooden beads and rounded it off with 2 wooden black beads on either side.

I also added a variety of heart and insect metal charms:

And then I made a few smaller dangly-bead combinations:

Left: a gold splashed bead rounded off with 2 black wooden beads.  Centre: a gold painted wooden disk bead attached to a flower-like spacer.  Right: a jasper stone bead rounded off with 2 wooden beads again.

Left: gold painted wooden bead topped with a spacer and black wooden bead.  Right: a pretty volcano bead rounded off with a spacer on each side.

This is one of my favourite bracelets I've made so far. :D

I've had some other favourite bracelets that I made in the past, but I made them with string and they've all broken after wearing them for a while (some sooner than others) - I'm not sure why. :(  So I prefer to make chain bracelets now.  Here are my poor broken ones:

A fun little daisy chain bracelet.

An ocean inspired seed bead bracelet.

I used the cutest little mini sea shells on this one!

A glass pearl & rose bracelet.

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Saturday Mornings                                    Just a Girl 
Fingerprints on the Fridge                          A Few of My Favorite Things 
The Shabby Nest                                      Making The World Cuter 
Truly Lovely                                              Sumo's Sweet Stuff
I'm Topsy Turvy
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Beaded Jewellery (& My Remedy For Flu)

I haven't made anything new again yet, so I thought I'd post some of the beaded jewelleries I made some times back.

Here's just a fun little bracelet I made with 2 "strands" of beading chain:

I  added some beads to head pins and attached them to the chain  (I've worn it quite often, that's why some of them are a bit bent):

Here's one I made using an odd-count peyote stitch.  It's from Lynn Davy's Midnight Garden Cuff pattern, which you can find here (and download for free if you're a member of Beading Daily):

I didn't have the sequins to decorate the bracelet like in her pattern, so it looks kinda plain:

And here's one of my favourite bracelets - Jann Christiansen from Dancing Sea Designs' Sealed with a Kiss bracelet:

 

The next one is a necklace that I made, a Victorian Lace pattern:

 

And the last one is Maria Tverdostup's Karmen Necklace:

These kinds of necklaces are a lot of fun to make, and not as difficult as it may seem! If you want some more patterns, visit Eagle Spirit's tutorials.

And then, yesterday I thought I had a cold, but today I think it's turned into a flu...*sniff*...

So, besides loading up on vitamins, here's what I do to make myself feel better...a bubble bath, some incense, a good horror novel and some chocolate:

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