Beady bracelet

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This summer I shared that my SIL had shared beads with me.  I posted a necklace I made out of some of them and mentioned that I had no idea what to do with the wooden beads that she sent.  I know that wooden beads seem a little more popular lately (not really sure why), but I hadn't seen any ideas that would work with the beads I had. 

Then I saw these bracelets from I Am Momma--Hear Me Roar and I knew my beads would be perfect for a bracelet just like them!  My craft store didn't have fun colors of leather so I went with dark brown since I wear a lot of brown.  I know this makes my bracelet a little bland, but I will keep looking for find more colorful leather colors.

 I could make a tutorial, but Cheri did such a good job I will let you go to her blog for step by step directions.  Here are a few pictures of my finished product.

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Here are parties I linked to:
DIY Under $5
Whatever Goes Wednesday
We Did It!  Wednesday
Tip Junkie
I {heart} naptime
Fireflies and Jellybeans

Giant Flower Ring

Quite a while ago I read on a blog (not a clue which blog) how someone took a cute button and cut the shank off to make a ring.  I saw this adorable flower button at Joann's and I knew it would be perfect for a ring! 

The hard part was actually finding a ring blank for the flower. I had to have my Sister-In-Law mail me one that she had found in IL.

There is a specific tool to cut off the shank on a button, but I just used one of my jewelry pliers and cracked it off.  I used Gorilla super glue to glue the flower onto the ring blank. 

Super easy, super cute!

Here are a few parties I link to:

Tatertots and Jello

I {heart} Naptime

Keeping it Simple

DIY under $5

Not Just a Housewife

Fireflies and Jellybeans

Bead Challenge #1

My Sister-In-Law, S. is into many of the same craft things that I am.  She is the one that got me into beading/jewelry making.  She recently received some beads as a gift that she had no idea what to do with.  She split them up and sent me some beads with a challenge to make jewelry with them.  I started with the easy ones--they look like pearls. :)  The other ones are wooden beads and I have NO idea what to make with them. (Let me know if you see any cute ideas with wooden beads!)

The inspiration for this necklace started with the pendant.  I noticed this silver pendant everytime I went into the jewelry section at Joann's.  Finally I had a really good coupon and decided I had to buy it before it was gone.

I used silver seed beads in between the pearl-like beads to keep the silver throughout the necklace.
The clasp I used it my favorite kind--so easy to get the necklace on and off by yourself and not get your hair caught in it.

Here is what it looks like on.

Here are parties I am linking to:

Spunky Junky

Sew Much Ado

Tatertots and Jello

House of Hepworths