mariavii was laughing evilly as she said, "I can't wait until Amy sees the envelope ( Read more... )

Operation Birthday Present: My brother liked his present! Yay! And phew! In return, he got me an iHome. :)

Operation Pear: Also a success! Had no problem getting the pears through security. In fact, it didn't even take me five minutes to clear security. For those who don't know, I really hate metal detectors or any type of security checks ( Read more... )

Okay, not really. But now you know what I've been up to in my spare time. ;)


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The things you can find when you're bored and start googling random search terms: Jane Austen Beads. Somebody has posted instructions for her Jane Austen-inspired earrings as well as photos of the finished projects. Cool! Maybe I'll try them out once I'm better at wire-wrapping. (Although, I'd change the center beads in the Sense & Sensibility ( Read more... )

The past two nights have been filled with beads!

Wednesday night, I used a kit to make a bracelet and attempted its matching earring. The earrings were a disaster, but I haven't given up yet! Just need to study up on how to loop the wires. The bracelet, on the other hand, I think looks pretty good.


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I think I went a little overboard with the beads this month. I'm swimming in them! And it's quickly becoming an expensive habit. But they're so pretty and so hard to resist! I'm beginning to feel like spotzle every time she walks past the scraps bin at the fabric store ( Read more... )

In case anybody was interested, this is the necklace and earring I made this weekend:


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1) Every once in a while, when I'm home on a weekend with nowhere to go, I like to play with my hair and do random things to it. Today, I pulled it into a ponytail, parted it above the hair elastic, and pushed the ponytail through the part from the bottom so that it came out of the top and looked like a water fountain spouting hair at the back of ( Read more... )

Hee. My parents asked me to run out and buy something for them, and the fabric store was conveniently on the way. So I got to go shopping for a button after all.

This is the necklace:


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The day before I left for Ireland, I went to put on a bracelet my mom had made for me and the string broke. It's just a string of beads and I knew there was a bead shop right across from the library (where I was headed anyway), so I scooped up the beads and headed for the store and asked them what I should do. They suggested I ditch the clasp and ( Read more... )