You may have seen that for a lot of my modular origami projects, I tend to cut smaller squares to make my units. Origami paper comes in 15cm squares usually, but I find that the finished model can be quite large, so I like cutting them into four 7.5cm squares, or even nine 5cm squares. …
What can you do with a lot of gemstone chips lying about? I bought a lot of these chip strings as I used them for my tree of life pendants, but I never seem to use all the chips ever. I have most of them sitting in this nice box just tucked away in my …
The other day I noticed that I did not own any black bracelets when I looked through my accessories. I already knew how to do a square knot macrame bracelet, so I got some waxed black cord and black rattail, and started making a bracelet. When I finished it and wore it, I though my …
Continuing on with my kumihimo adventures, I started learning how to incorporate beads. With a normal braid, you need a thicker cord, but this time you will need beading cord and appropriately sized beads. Here, I've used 0.5mm cord, size 8/0 seed beads, and 4mm crystals and pearls. You start by braiding a little with …
I bought a lot of seed beads a long time ago and they just sit in a box on my desk, not really being used much. At some point, I moved flats and the beads got shaken up as well! It was time to do something with them. I had a little bit of 0.4mm …
I bought this book from a Waterstones a month ago called "A Beginner's Guide to Kumihimo" by Donna Mckean-Smith as I wanted to learn how to make beaded kumihimo bracelets. I highly recommend it to anyone looking to make kumihimo after this attempt! I did find out that the sort of beads and cord that …
I wrapped a large tiger eye cabochon with copper wire recently! The shape was quite unusual, so I ran the wire all the way around and sideways as well. I added some topaz Swarovski crystals and wrapped the wire ends around the frame. Sorry there's not much to say with this post! I just kind …
Most things I've managed to finish recently are hair clips. I have some other things in the works, but they aren't ready to show off yet! (I've been so busy...) I'll quickly talk through the basic materials I used for each one. This one used a mixture of burgundy red ribbons of different widths and …
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If you are interested in labradorite as a healing stone, you can find its properties here. After finishing my sunstone tree of life, I wanted to try again and hopefully not make any mistakes. This is a labradorite cabochon from a craft fair which was a little smaller and a bit more fiddly to work …
I have owned a very large stash of ribbons for a long while, and I came up with the idea to make lots of large hair clips - have you ever seen the types of ribbons that cheerleaders wear? It mainly started from looking at the patterned ribbons and then working backwards. All ribbons are …
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