Saturday, March 7, 2009

New Projects

I finally finished this frame. It was supposed to be a Christmas present for the girl that works for us, but it got put aside for more pressing projects, so now it is her birthday present. The idea came from Nicole, who makes jewelry trees every year. I said, 'why can't we put jewelry on other things?', she replied 'Let's go to Micheal's'. She is my perfect best friend. At any rate, I started with a basic unfinished wooden frame, painted it silver, then started glueing beads and jewels to it. It's such a basic project, with a wow result. I used Alene's glue, because it dries clear. It could turn out to be a pretty expensive frame, but I used a bunch of random thrift store jewelry.



My next project is a crown for one of my nieces. Here's the start to it. Since I started with multi-colored beads, I am going to continue using several different colors of wire as well. I plan to leave the wire under the loops unadorned, to allow for bobby pins.



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