I once had a dream I was sitting on the cream marble floor of a strange, all-white room with giant windows, toiling over a cool woven necklace that I had to get done by the end of the night so I could ship it to the manufacturer. I was stressing out, and almost in tears because I thought I would never get it done. I, apparently, was a jewelry designer in this dream. I, also, was in some sort of relationship with an almost-40 rocker/actor— guess who? Obviously, it was just a dream.
All dreams aside, in the last couple of days, I’ve made a couple of bracelets, nothing special and the two necklaces I’m wearing.
Both necklaces were made using aluminum chain— gold for one black for the other— and glass beads, but the looks are very different. The gold necklace is very simple with only a few beads dispersed throughout, while the black-chained necklace has a smattering of glass pearls in various sizes an colors with two large green stones book-ending the dangling beads.
Part of me wants to start selling some of the jewelry I make, but I would hate to part with a one-of-a-kind piece and making a duplicate would be time consuming because I’m not one for measuring lengths or counting beads. I just do what looks good on me.
I have the rest of January to be creative, and then school starts. I’m sure there will be more creations to come!
The other day, Geri from Because I’m Addicted posted a picture of an Alexander Wang studded bad, that I could look at for the rest of my life, but undoubtedly, and unfortunately, will never own. However, tucked inside the post with the lust-worthy bag was a link to Park & Cube.
That little internet wormhole led to a DIY project to make your own Alexander Wang inspired bag. After procrastinating for a bit over the holiday weekend, and realizing sitting in a hospital room with my sick brother all day every day is intensely boring, I headed to Micheal’s to find studs so I could Wang-out an old fake leather bag I bought years ago.
The only studs in stock weren’t as large as I had hoped for, but I think overall, the my little project was a success.
It was super easy to add studs, all I did was push the studs into the fabric and used a butter knife to fold in the prongs as directed on the blog. I totally bought too many studs, so I offered to bedazzle my little brother’s hospital gown. Sadly, he declined.
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As I alluded to yesterday, I have been inspired to get crafty again—I’m not 100% sure if this is due to my annoying lack of money of my severe boredom. I had to voyage to two craft stores to find the few feathers I bought. Their selections are very childish-Halloween-mask, while I was looking for sophisticated-Indian-chief. Though, I didn’t find the exact feathers I wanted, I did manage to spend at least $20 on feathers and waste an entire day trying for a stroke of genius.
After trying multiple times to create some amazing, over-the-top feather hairpin, and failing miserably, I realized simple was much easier and cuter, overall
To make the feather hairpin in the picture, I just used scissors to shape the feathers slightly, wrapped black thread around the ends to keep them together, and used a needle and the same thread to attach a bobby pin and two pieces of broken necklaces. The entire process took no longer than 30 minutes, and the only thing you really need to know how to do is make a knot.
I’m super-stoked with how it turned out, and I think I might make more, but in different colors. What do you think of my new craft project, AND/OR do you know where to find a better selection of natural looking feathers (i.e. ones that aren’t died hot pink or electric blue)?
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