I want to bring you all a blog that I can't find elsewhere...a little bit of everything, because that's who I am. No...I am not the know-all of fashion, or a makeup guru...I am not a gourmet chef, or the mom that has found every tried-and true baby product out there. But I think I am an interesting person, with interesting ideas that I want to share. I am moved by fashion, and I use that to incorporate into every day dressing...I cook dinner for my family night and have required a fair amount of skills in the kitchen, as well as some great recipes...I experiment with makeup and have found great products that work...and I research these topics because I have a lot of free time and a thirst for being the best me that I can be.
So please continue reading...
With all that said...here are my latest jewelry creations...and I am actually getting proud of these things!! If you want to make your own...it is really easy and affordable. I have so far been getting all my supplies from wal-mart (though next week I'm going to some craft stores in Asheville, NC and am super excited!) and have been using 20g gold beading wire...gold earring findings (that's what they call the earring hooks) and beads...the only tools I have used are needle nose pliers and wire cutters, both from my husband's toolbox. If you have a toolbox of any kind in your house, you probably have these two tools. Just work with it...I haven't used any kind of instruction yet, and I am sure there are a TON if videos on how to bead and stuff on youtube, I just haven't checked any out yet.
2 comments:
Those are really cute Leah! I like the ones with the double strands of bright colored beads. I bought myself some wire working tweezers and a small pair of wire cutters that I use when doing jewelry. They were inexpensive but probably a little easier to work with then the tools you might find in your average men's toolbox. There's a really neat bead store downtown asheville that I've got some nice stuff from...it's kinda neat cause you can pick specific gems and beads and pay per piece/weight or buy bulk too if you want. See you next weekend!
http://www.firemountaingems.com/
Your life will never be the same. :)
Wholesale prices on jewelry components and beads and stuff. I love their freshwater pearls for like $4 a strand. My mom has an entire room filled with her firemountain purchases.
This sounds like a total spambot comment haha, but I'm addicted to all of the charms and findings that you can get there for far far cheaper than most stores and even places like walmart, and their quality is AMAZING.
It's also asssortable, so if you order 10 different things, you get a cheaper rate per item than if you ordered like 4 things, and a cheaper rate on each of 20 things if you get twenty instead of 10 and so on.
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