Ring Toss

While sorting through my wardrobe and accessories, I came to realize I had tons of other pieces of jewelry (ex. charm bracelets), but I didn’t have enough rings.  So I decided to fill this void on my jewelry rack.  For these rings I used sparkly plastic tubes I had leftover from a bracelet kit and wire ornament hooks left over from Christmas.  The wire hooks were fantastic.  They are easy to bend and already cut to the perfect length for rings.  I now have a bunch of cute, stackable rings in colors that blend well into my closet.  I’m thinking of making matching necklaces too, although they might resemble those glow stick necklace things too much.
Here’s the updated list:

• skirt
• dress shorts
• bookmarks
• boxes
• key necklace
• cutoffs
• embellished wedges
• rings
• soap
• Top
• luggage makeover

Eight down, just three more to go.  Already almost done with the next one.

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Bows, Not Just for Gift Wrap

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Here is some jewelry I made with bias tape, as modeled by one of my nieces.  I had some packages of the stuff catching dust and had to do something with them.

First I made a bunch of little bows.  They’re made the same way as those packaged gift bows you see in stores.  Why buy them when you can easily make them out of anything. 

For the necklace and bracelet I just attached them to a longer piece of the bias and tied them on.

For the ring I glued one on an old plastic ring with gem glue.  I got the plastic ring years ago from one of those coin machines.  The fake jewel fell off, so a bow made an excellent substitute. 

I used gem glue to attach pin backs to make the two pins. 

So here’s the updated list:

• bottle cozy
• half apron
• hankies
• snowflake angels
• bias tape accessories
• mini baskets
• pouches
• bead headbands
• Wings
• scarf
• id tag holder

Two down, nine to go.  Next is the tag holder.

Give it a try:

• Aleene's Jewel-It Embellishing Glue
• 1-1/4" Steel Pin Back with Nickel Finish, 10pcs.
• Bead Landing™ Bar Pin, 3/4"
• Wrights Double Fold Bias Tape-1/4'' x 4yds

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