Polymer Clay Cane: Tarot Inspired

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  I like things like tarot cards as well as positive ancient symbolism. They lift my spirit. Usually.   That’s why this pentagon polymer clay bead making tutorial immediately caught my eye. Velody, from Tree Gold and Bee Gold, showed us how to make these lovely beads with pentagram shape using the polymer clay cane [...]

:: Join In!!!! Party 65 :: LINKY OPEN NOW ::

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  Hi all. Welcome back. Before we start partying, some announcements: 1. We have a winner for our Mothers Day Gift giveaway. Go check it out. 2. Please be so kind so as to link back to the party. Ideally from within your post. 3. Do visit others and leave comments. This is what virtual [...]

10 Zip Jewelry Designs

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Amazing what you can do with old zippers. The contemporary handmade jewelry trend with vintage zippers has been a craze for years now. Still, I do spot new jewelry designs still today. Sure you’ve seen our ‘Zipper Jewelry’ -tutorial before. It was simple back then. Today I want to show you the added sophistication that [...]

Cute Friendship Bracelets :: DIY

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Start Family Memories At The Kitchen Table or the Beach: teach your kids (and their best friends) how to make friendship bracelets. It is interesting how one remembers some childhood memories more vividly than others. One of my happy-time childhood memories involved making things together with my mom. Ranging from Barbie cloths to making friendship [...]

Craft Book Giveaway

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This craft book will be published in Fall, but its publisher, Lark, is offering readers a chance to win an advance copy of this professional standard jewelry book, signed by the author and all!  That’s 432 pages with photographs of top jewelry design, free. This jewelry book includes bead stringing, bead embroidery and bead weaving.  [...]

Diamond Chain Bracelet

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Free Jewelry Project from the book Diane Fitzgerald’s Favorite Beading Projects. You might recall the necklace made with fortuneteller’s beads, a jewelry project from the new book by Diane Fitzgerald, one of the world’s best-selling beadwork designers, that we featured earlier in February . Today we have a new free jewelry design that the publishers [...]

Darling Crochet Edging Friendship Bracelet

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Was doodling in the sun this morning and came up with this. I actually intended to create a crochet edging for a piece of clothing and was just about to rip it out as I thought the flowers were too close together for this purpose, when it fell out of my hand onto my wrist. [...]

50+ Mothers Day Gifts to Make (Personalized Gifts for her)

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50+ Beautiful, Easy-to-Make Mothers Day Gifts Pretty, personalized, functional & stylish gifts for moms, and other important women in your world. Make a gift yourself, or give mother the craft materials along with a free printed how-to tutorial as an enjoyable ‘DIY craft project kit’.   Mothers Day Gift Ideas for Older Kids Who Can [...]

Turk Knot Bracelet from Fabric Scrap (video)

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  In for some fashion jewelry? Make yourself and your friends a couple of bracelets. Your jewelry can not get much  more trendy than these yarn wrist knot bracelets.    Make great gifts.   Choose Right Size Bracelet for Your Wrist Tip: when using stretchy material such as recycled fabric, elastic cord, t-shirt yarn, or [...]

DIY Designer Pearl Cuff Bracelet

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$595.00 for a Jean-François Mimilla designer bracelet? DIY tutorial here.   This cool pearl and metal loop cuff caught my eye when on break. Understatedly elegant and contemporary. I followed the link and found only a  simpler version with only pearl beads for sale at shopworthwhile.com for $595.   I own some very nice jewelry, so [...]