Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Blissfully Beautiful

So as part of my journey to a new me, I want to craft more. My major craft is making necklaces. I wanted to share this with all of you. I started making jewelry when I was in high school. I had a friend that I would hang out with her and her friends on Friday nights and have Craft Night. Most of the other people that attended, were into jewelry making and so I got into it too.

So the first thing I do is select a pendant.

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The I sort through all of my beads and pick a combination of beads that I like.

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For this necklace I used a combination of pearls, jasper, and silver spacer beads. I think there might have been other types of gems used, but I don’t know. I believe the pendant is made of hemalyke. Then I lay out the beads in a pattern that I like.

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Then I string it on acuflex and it’s good to go.

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So in honor of my re-launch, I want to do a giveaway. When I reach 50 followers, I will do a giveaway of a necklace made by me. I will post more details when it happens, so please follow me and you could win a gorgeous necklace made by moi!


18 comments:

Design It Chic said...

The necklace is cute! Keep up the good job you're doing. I just landed here and I am now following you thanks to Welcome Wednesday blog hop and it would be so nice if you could share the love back on my blog:)
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K.M. said...

Lovely! New follower here, hope that you will follow back.
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Unknown said...

Cute necklace! I used to make jewelry with a friend of mine, but haven't done anything in a very long time.

Just wanted to say thank you for joining our Welcome Wednesday blog hop! We hope to see you stop by weekly and even maybe enter some of our giveaways and check out our freebies & deals! We are so happy to be new followers of your blog and can't wait to come back! You are more than welcome to grab our special Welcome Wednesday button which will link you directly to our hop each week & that also helps spread the word about our great event!

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Xenia said...

Very pretty!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Stephanie @ henry happened said...

Great job on the necklace - very nice!

Thanks for visiting my site - returning the follow!

Renee Ann said...

Thanks for following me at Doorkeeper. I'm following back! Love your pretty blog. Blessings!

Angela said...

Thanks for following Mommy Time Out

Unknown said...

Sweet! Lovely necklace!
Thanks for stopping by my blog!
Following you back!

-also dont forget to enter my
Perricone MD Giveaway ($150 Dollar Value!)

Anonymous said...

I use to make necklaces all the time, yours looks beautiful!

Thanks for stopping by, I'm now your newest follower. Have a great night!

Hope
http://www.peanutbutterandhopey.com

Nicole Carpenter said...

Great job on the necklace! Thanks for stopping by The Fickle Nickle today. I'm following back:) I look forward to your future posts... xo

Unknown said...

Cute necklaces ! Following you back !
Xo
Frenchy

Emma's Lunch said...

Thanks for stopping by Emma's Lunch! I'm your newest follower.

That necklace looks great!

Anonymous said...

Lovely necklace.

Thanks for the following, am following you back!

Shirl x

Johnnie said...

Thanks for linking up to Thrifty Thursday. I am following you now.

Johnnie

Judy said...

Thanks for following. I'm now following back. Have a wonderful day:)

Ourfamilyworld said...

This is so beautiful!! Returning the love from Ourfamilyworld.
www.ourfamilyworld.com/blog

Cathy Kennedy said...

What an interesting hobby! I've always wanted to try my hand at this, but never have gotten around to doing it.

I appreciated your visit and am returning the gesture.

Your newest follower,
~Cathy Kennedy, Children's Author
The Tale of Ole Green Eyes

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Katy said...

ooo cute! I love the blues! And thanks for the follow-I'm following you back! =)