Today is my Mom’s birthday, so I made her some jewels :)
Tutorial for these two items will be up tomorrow. But if you’re impatient like me and need one of these necklaces now, you can buy one here!
Off for some birthday dinner! See you tomorrow!
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Fierce Feather Earrings – A Tutorial
September 20th, 2011
Happy Tuesday, my friends! Today I am going to show you how to make a FIERCE pair of feather earrings, like these!
Supplies:
- 4 feathers – 2 medium length, 2 short length
- 4 seed beads
- 2 large silver beads
- 2 hook ear-wires
- 2 eye pins
- 2 cord tip terminators (mine were a medium size)
- flat nose pliers
- wire wrapping or round nose pliers (not shown)
- side cutting pliers (not shown)
Step 1: Place your small feather face down on your work area and then the larger feather on top, also face down. Line up their stem edges and place in the terminator.
Step 2: Using your flat nose pliers, firmly close the terminator around the stems of the feather. Be sure to secure it tightly. Repeat with second set of feathers and terminator.
Step 3: Slide one seed bead onto an eye pin, followed by your silver bead, and another seed bead.
Step 4: Now we want to create a loop on the other side of the eye pin. To do so, bend the eye pin wire at top seed beat to a 90 degree angle.
Step 5: Trim the tail of the eye pin to about 1/4″ long with your side cutting pliers. Then, using your wire wrapping (or round nose) pliers create a second loop on the end of the eye pin.
Step 6: Take the open end of the eye pin that you just created, slip it onto the end loop of your ear-wires, and shut the loop with your wire wrapping pliers. Then use your wire wrapping pliers to slightly open the other loop of the eye pin, slip on the feathers, shut the loop, and your done!
These feathers come in all sorts of FIERCE colors, I’m totally digging these magenta ones.
Or how about these colors?
Like them? Lucky for you they’re available in my Etsy shop for just $5! Get em while they’re hot – or should I say FIERCE!
See you all soon!
Easy Headband Tutorial with a Side of Awkward
June 14th, 2011
Alright people, after writing yesterday how I lost interest in crafting for a hot second, something happened and I got motivated! Ok, well not like super motivated, but enough so that I was able to put together this easy tutorial for you! Here we go.
Easy Headband Tutorial
Supplies:
- Measuring Tape
- Jersey Knit Material
- Basic Sewing Supplies
Cutting:
- Cut 1 – M” x 3″ Band (M= Measurement of your head minus 2 inches – this is where you use the measuring tape)
- Cut 1 – 3″ x 2″ Binding Strip
As you can see, I made quite a few headbands.
Assembly:
- Take your 3″ x 2″ binding strips, fold in half (right sides together) so that it is now 3″ x 1″, and sew in place.
- Trim the edge of the binding strip.
- Flip inside out.
Take your band and pull it through your binding strip.
Right sides together, set your band shut. Trim the edges.
Pull your binding strip over the band’s seam – and you’re done! Yay!
So you’re probably thinking to yourself – that was an easy tutorial, just like she said! But wait, what’s so awkward about it?
Well here you go folks, the most awkward self-portraits I have EVER taken. I feel awkward even posting this lol.
Alright, that one isn’t so bad, at least my tan looks good, haha.
Oh, yup, awkward.
I’m so not a model. And here’s the winner:
Why do I look like I’m in pain, haha. Well, you guys get the picture, lol.
Ahh, but guess what, the awkward pics aren’t over. Don’t worry, just a few more!
Like this necklace?
Ok I swear, that was the last one, haha. ANYWAYS! The next tutorial I do will show you had to make a necklace just like this one!
I’m going to try and harness some more of that motivation that I found yesterday and get you a tutorial tomorrow. So stay tuned!
Oh, and I wanted to let you guys in a little secret I’ve been keeping over here. Recently I’ve jumped onto the Atkins Diet bus, and I’m really liking it. But sometimes I really want carbs, like REALLY want them. So to keep me motivated I’ve started exploring new recipes and I figured, why not share them with you?! I’ll be sharing a new post every week – planning for Wednesday or Thursday – and I’m calling it (drumroll please!):
So excited to get cooking this evening! And don’t worry, I won’t disappoint, this first recipe is going to knock your carb loving socks off!
See you next time!
Oh and don’t forget about the Blueprint Blowout going on!
New Dog Collar Tutorial
February 22nd, 2011
Back when I first started this blog, the very first post I did was a tutorial on how to use an old lanyard to make a dog collar. Well this time, I decided to take a cheap collar that I had bought for Lucy for Christmas, rip it apart, and use the old hardware to make her a new, more fashionable one. Here’s what the original looked like (NOTE – my camera batteries were dying, so the quality of the photos is pretty crappy) :
The first thing I did was rip the seams, and take all of the hardware off of the existing collar. Then, I cut two strips of fabric 1.5″ wide by 21″ long – the length should be the same as the length of the original collar.
Sew the two pieces together along both long sides and one short side, and flip outside right.
I then serged my open end shut and slipped on the slider piece from the end on the right.
Then I slipped on the little rectangular piece (not sure what it is called) on from the left end.
Next I slipped on the clawed part of the clip on the left end, then took the left end and slid it back through the rectangular piece.
Next loosen the slider piece on the right end,
Pull the right end tight again.
Sew loose left end to itself, about 2 inches from the slider.
Slide metal piece onto the right end.
Slide other half of the clasp onto the right end behind the metal piece.
Take the right end and loop it to the left up and under the metal piece back towards the clasp.
Sew end in place so that it allows the metal piece to rest about 2 inches from the clasp.
Then I used this wonderful Felt Flower Tutorial from Mrs. Priss to make a cute little felt flower. Only I added two small strips of elastic to the back of the felt circle backing so that I could slide it on and off of the collar easily.
And that’s it! Cute and easy!
Have any of you made a collar recently? I would love to see them!
Until next time!
