Posts tagged ‘Make your own necklace’

March 30th, 2012

Creative Friday: Coral Necklace

I traveled to Greece, Mendocino, California and Arizona and brought back this little ditty of inspiration.

I love ocean inspired things and seeing red coral always brings back the fresh, tropical, sea style I’m drawn to.

In Arizona, I noticed a lot of women wearing and selling necklaces with red beads.

When I returned home from my trips, I went straight to Michael’s in the hope that I could save the $100 it costs to buy a coral red necklace and make my own instead.

DIY coral necklace

And I did.

This was one of the easiest DIY projects ever. I just bought two separate beads from Michael’s. [I think it was about $6 total.]

Then all I did was string the red oval beads in between the coral ones with fishing line and then added a spring ring and a crimp tube (leftover from a decade ago) to one side.

That’s it! Practically a no-brainer. And that’s important since I’ve been having blogger’s block lately. You can imagine how grateful I am for easy non-wordy projects like this.

How about you?

Did anything visually inspiring and text-less lately?

August 27th, 2011

Easy Weekend Craft

To get your creative juices flowing this weekend, why not try making your own DIY necklace?

This is the same necklace I briefly mentioned here and the good news is that like all of my MIM (Made It Myself) crafts it’s fast, easy and cheap!

Here’s what you need:

Materials: 1 circular pendant with green recycle symbol, metal twine, 1 square pendant with the word create on it and 1 jump ring.

How I did it: I used the metal twine that attached one of the pendants to its cardboard backing and threaded it through both pendants and a jump ring. Lastly, I threaded through the jump ring with an old necklace chain I hardly used. That’s it!

What are you creating this weekend?