DIY: More Jewelry Projects

Figure 1: Hematite and cloth earrings on plastic findings.  Not sure how well the superglue will hold up with cloth.
Figure 2: Surgical Steel Earrings with seed pearls and glass beads.  Made for the gentleman's mother.
Figure 3: WIP: cloth earring and necklace set.

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Parents are visiting!  Lots to do!  

Jewelry Projects With Metal Findings

So obviously my insomnia has been paying off, and obviously these earrings were not meant for me, as I previously stated in A Writing Closet that I am allergic to metal.  So... anybody want?  

The picture of the top earrings isn't so good, but the lighting was bad and unfixable.  They are a yellow bead between to white spoked beads.  I think they resemble daisies, so I'm calling them Daisy Earrings.  The second pair I feel are very architectural.  I called them Piled Up Earrings because they remind me of piles of rocks on a beach.  Like so: 

These rock "sculptures" were piled up by my Uncle Ken one day in August of 2006 while we were vacationing in Bay Point, Ohio.  I took the picture.  I miss that place.  I miss the peace it always brought me.  I hope I can go back someday soon.  I haven't had a proper vacation in.... years.  I think this picture was from my last proper vacation, and before that it was somewhere around middle school.  

Well folks, I'm off to bed.  it's one in the morning and I have an early, friggin' loooong day ahead of me.  Peace out!

Shopping Haul from Yesterday

Yesterday I had some extra cash, so I treated myself to some new summery clothes.  It felt so good to treat myself after months of pinching pennies.  So, between some sales and some savvy spending habits (drilled into my courtesy of Mom and Older Sibling), I was able to buy about $150 worth of stuff for about $50ish.  I washed everything, but not everything was dry enough for pictures today, so here are pics of MOST of what I got yesterday:

Not pictured: a red jersey dress, pink flip flops, navy and black bow rings.

Project: Jewelry Again

Last night I couldn't sleep, so I got up and finished this earring and necklace set.  I couldn't get a good picture because the glass beads kept reflecting in the flash and so did the backgrounds I kept trying.  So I was forced to try without flash, and this was the result.  I've played color balance and contrast and brightness.  Hopefully you can see this....

hottness

No, not me, although I'm rather pretty.  The weather!  It's hot and humid here in Pittsburgh, PA.  Today I bussed down the street to the school to work on the School's Summer Reading List, then I checked out the VS Clearance sale.  No luck on the latter.  I popped home and before I popped back out, was forced to change shirts from perspiring.  Went to F21 and H&M after dropping donations off to Goodwill.  Scored some totally awesome stuff, which I will  eventually outfit post here later.  Rested, then did grocery shopping.  Upon arriving home, I had a lovely cool shower, the effects of which haven't lasted.

Everything is washed and trying to dry in this humidity.  By the time I pulled the wash out of my dryer, and brought the hot stuff upstairs, I was sweating again.  I feel like I need a third shower!  Ugh!

Still... I'll take this over snow ANY DAY.

This night calls for ice cream.... after I put away the laundry and turn the fan onto the handwashing that's drying on the rack.

book giveaway!

Jessica Quirk of What I Wore is giving away 10 signed copies of her books!  Enter here: http://whatiwore.tumblr.com/tagged/Giveaway  and visit her site here: http://whatiwore.tumblr.com/!

Reading Jessica's blog is partially what inspired me to create my own.  Hopefully, one day this little corner of the internet will be as successful as hers!

Cheers!

Jewelry Projects

figure one: my new coral-themed necklace and earrings set.

figure 2: a better picture of the previous earrings I made

Figure One: I bought the coral beads and the double strand of reddish seed beads at Michael's on clearance.  Then I knotted together a bunch of linen-colored ecru (the thick embroidery thread used in cross stitch) to incorporate the at-sea theme.  I sewed on the red plastic french hooks and voila!

Figure Two: I wired together a bunch of small round quartz beads and some glass beads to each other and to a pair of black plastic french hooks.

WIP Projects: A necklace where the "chain" is braided fabrics.  I have it all braided, I just need to figure out how I want to do the beading.  I also bought a super glue pen to work on the post earrings.  I bought some freshwater pearl beads from Michael's on clearance that I want to try and use.

What are your current projects?