More easy Christmas ornaments

I have these clay beads that are flowers. I have struggled to use them all in jewelry. I no longer perform hula so making a necklace would just go to waste. Then I realized that these would make great ornaments. Out came ribbon and the hot glue gun. Yes really!

Repeat, repeat, repeat.

Here they are on my tree!

Yay for more pink on my tree and finally using these beads for something! Christmas is near are you ready?? :)

xoxoxox,
Lauren

Handmade Jewelry Thursday 8.5.11

On my now 3rd addition of handmade jewelry thursday! Whew! I know it is late and on a Friday but it has been a busy week with the Olympic Boxing Trials and my cousin Enovi competing. Plus, all the family in town. This week's post will just be an addition to a post earlier from the Iron Craft Challenge #31. I have already messed around with the purples but for this post I am going to see what happens when I color them with my good old paint pens. I really wanted black earrings but didn't feel like buying black clay. Kind of in the "work with-what-I-got" sort of mood.

Here are my leftover small violets. I want to turn them black with my paint pen.

Add a post with some cement glue...

Done! Now I have them in black! I wore them today at work! And yes I suck at taking pictures! this was taken in my car ;)

I also have been thinking I can probably glam these babies up by adding a clear coat like the spray polyurethane I have. I like shiny things... Sorry for the tardiness! Look forward to creating a beaded necklace this weekend. Here's to a break! :)

XOXOXO,
Lauren

Iron Craft 31- Violet Flower Earrings

For this week's iron craft Challenge we had to make something out of clay. Wow this took me back to high school when I took a pottery class- where we made things out of clay. I actually enjoyed that class immensely, it was fun to have a creative outlet during school, especially since I had all advanced, AP classes, and Dual Enrollment. It was a breath of fresh air. It also show you why I love to craft and sew at night- I am so technical and science filled to the brim during the day, I need a way to decompress at night! :)

Initially, I thought big for this challenge and wanted to make a clay flower but my family was in town this and was unable to craft! I seriously had sewing withdrawls. So, I went small. I had this violet flower press since college. I was an Alpha Delta Pi and our flower was the violet. Mom bought this for me to make stuff and crafts (yes I loved craft time in college too). I kept it ever since.

I used 2 different FIMO colors of purple and made all different sizes. Also what helps with these old molds is adding some baby powder with a cotton swab. Love it! Bake and let cool! I added a dab of yellow paint pen to the middles b/c this cookie would fail at adding a small piece of yellow clay!!

Next, I decided to make a pair of earrings. I grabbed some earring posts from Hobby Lobby and glue then together. Done! Here is my finished earrings! :) I like the darker purple better. May experiment later with the light purple with other colors.

Here are the bigger ones.

Wahoo, can't wait for the next challenge!

XOXOXOXO,
Lauren