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Jewelry, Life

We survived Sandy

Jessica Smith

So we survived the storm, phew! Looks like Maryland didn’t get hit as hard as expected. I’m stunned by the photos of New York and New Jersey and hope everyone stays safe up there.

My Dad lost a big tree in his front yard that luckily didn’t fall on his house. We don’t have power, but there’s no real damage to our house — we’ll live!

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All of the rest of my family is safe, to my knowledge. Thank goodness! I did manage to make a bunch of jewelry yesterday before it got too dark outside. I pulled our sofa up to our bay window and a nice little work station. Check it out… I strung black chain along with the beads! And it is aqua. Love it.

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*crossing our fingers for power back soon and thanking our lucky stars that our house was unscathed*

Jewelry

Elephant Necklace

Jessica Smith

I have a lot of Brian’s dad’s old, mismatched jewelry from after he passed away. He had some really unique things, but one thing that stuck out to me was an old elephant cuff link. It had no match, just like the rest of it, so I thought I’d make it into something someone could wear again.

I tore off the cuff link backing so I could add a bail for a necklace. It’s pretty simple, really. Here’s what you do if you have something you’d like to wear as necklace bling:

1. Buy a bail for your necklace.

2. Tear off any backing of your item so the back is flat. Then, using jewelry glue, put a blob of glue on the bail and a blob of glue on the back of your item.

3. Let the glue sit until it dries — overnight would be good. String through a chain and wear your new bling!

Isn’t it a cute, sentimental necklace? So easy to make, too 🙂

Craft Projects, Jewelry

Craft FAIL(ssss)

Jessica Smith

Do you ever have one of those days where nothing seems to go right? I guess we all do, huh? Well, as far as craft projects go, that’s been the story of my week with new projects.

First, I tried to paint glass in an effort to turn two pretty jugs into lamps. They were so pretty…. but now they are so garbage. Lame.

Next, I tried to mod podge a comic book in a woven pattern onto a wooden tray. That was just a travesty. Double lame.

So, I stuck with what I know best — and that’s jewelry. I haven’t been super into making jewelry lately, but I found these beautiful teal beads at Michaels the other day so I plopped down onto my couch with some red wine and chocolate chops and created a beautiful necklace.

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Now check out these fancy beads!

Aren’t they so pretty?!? I had to have them, and they were on clearance! Woot!

I also picked up some silver spacer beads. I strung everything together to make this purddddy necklace.

At least this necklace wasn’t a craft fail.

Also not a fail… my new sparkly fingernails! My mom and I got our nails done today and I couldn’t resist the glitter polish. And, it’s the gel/shelac stuff, so I can’t destroy it! Yay 🙂

Hope your weekend was more productive than mine!

Update: Bahaha. Rem loves the necklace!

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