Winner!! Winner!! Chicken Dinner!!

I am in love with the blog Mich. in L.A.
You HAVE to go check it out!!
She make the most AMAZING jewlery out of some of the most NEATEST things!
She always amazes me with the clever ideas she comes up with!!
She hosts very fun guessing games and I happen to win one!!
My photos do not do her jewlery justice so please click here to see it in a better photo!

This was made out of a barbie doll brush..amazing right!!
Now go look at her blog she rocks!!

Valentine's Day Gift...from the young at heart..

Ahhh..young love..its so sweet..and precious..and DRAMATIC....but puppy love is something of wonder and excitement!!

My son asked me to make his little girlfriend a "Valentine's Necklace" so he can give it to her as a gift.

Not sure of this young ladies "style" made it a bit of a challenge. These are the beads we picked out.

I might make earrings and a bracelet to match but we shall see..depends on how ambitious I might get :)

Notice the 2 hearts..that was Caleb's idea...everyone say..awwww!!

She is 12 so hopefully this is something she will like...Im sure since it's coming from the boyfriend and they are both love struck she will love it. I think Dan coulda gave me a bread tie and I'd of been swooney over it!!

And my model for today is the lovely "Chappy"...not sure if he's trying to go for the Octomom lips or if he just has a bad addiction of licking his lips..but seriously could we please go one winter without the rash attack??

I love how he's game for anything..try on a girly necklace sure.!!



Christmas Jewelry..

For Christmas this year I made lots of jewelry.

I admit I am not a pro at this...but I'm pretty proud of myself

at how far I've come with making them look so much better then

a string of beads! (Who knew crimping beads were so awesome??!!)

This first necklace set is made for a friend of mine.

This is one of my favorite ones that I made.

It has lots of crystal beads, and the charm is a unique one.

When Dan and I were in Mount Pleasant I picked it up at an Indian

museum and all the beads there were made by the Indians that lived on the reservation

that ran this particular museum.

This set here I made for an older teen.

I'm not sure of her style so I'm hoping

she likes this.

If you look closely the "wild" design beads are actually

made from magazine pages. Yep paper beads baby!!

I use a really strong glue when I make these, so when

they dry they are rock hard.

(I'll be making a tutorial for those of you who don't

know how to make paper beads)

This set here is made for my sister in law.

She wears a lot of Harley clothes so I figured if

I went with black/white/clear she'd have some

sort of shirt to match it.

I had to get the wire to shape so now it lays flat

not all curved like the photo shows.

And look there is some more of those paper beads!

This set was made for my little cousin

who is also an older teen, but a HUGE

University of Michigan fan.

I'm sure she'll wear these with pride!

(Go Notre Dame!)

Here is a set I made for another friend of mine.

Her favorite color is purple so I'm really

hoping that she likes this set.

This photo shows more of the true color of the

beads. (wow jewelry is hard to photograph!)

She also is not a person that I've noticed wears

various earrings so instead of earrings I made her a

bracelet.

And lastly, this set is made for my Auntie.

It was very hard to get the real colors of this set.

The colors are more like turquoise stones.

This was just some of the necklaces I made

this year. I gave 4 away without photographing them.

I told ya I been busy :)

Thanks for stopping by!

I hope your Christmas was a great one and that Santa

brought YOU lots of good things!

Blog Party Winner!!!

Long overdue...........

I finally got a winner from the Blog Party Giveaway!

I used Random.org in order to make the giveaway fair.

The winner will be receiving the lovely bracelet and earring set.

And she should know I love how it turned out and am having a hard time parting with it :)

So on to the winner......the winner is.....

*~*DRUM ROLL *~*

Sheryl1024

My doll is modeling these for you all to admire.

(We still need a name for her!!)

She's such a great model huh? rofl!!

I love it! It's very sparkly too! The pictures don't do this set justice!

BLOG GIVE AWAY!!!!!!!!!!

Last night my kids had "Parent's Night" at their Kids Club. (Wednesday night Bible school)

I always like to send their teachers a little something during the "holidays" to show my appriciation of them volunteering their time.

So yesterday I whipped up these GREEN bracelets for St.Patty's Day.

I am also going to be making them for their school teachers as well.

It got me to thinking, since I'm going to be making 2 more anyways I may as well make THREE!!

One for each of the teachers and maybe one for YOU!!!

SO with that said...........I decided to make an extra one to give away right here on my blog!!

If you're interested in getting in on maybe grabbing one of these bracelets here is what you will need to do..

1.)Leave a comment ANYWHERE on this blog. You can leave several comments if you like, but your name only will go in one time...however..

2.) If you link this giveaway to your blog and let me know either in a comment or email dash_02@netzero.com I will put your name in for the drawing a second time!

The drawing will be on St. Patty's Day. Please be sure to leave a way for me to contact you in case you are the winner.

Good Luck to EVERYONE!