I am a hardcore on-line shopper - if it's available on-line then I would rather have it delivered to my door than spend more time in my car. The upside is that I get zillions of catalogs, and now I study them for ideas. So two items I saw recently inspired me to try to make them on my own - one from Chico's and one from Title Nine:
I bought some cool wood beads in NYC, and although I'm more of a silver finding gal, I did have some gold chain and came across some gold head pins the other day. Since the wood beads I had were not oblong like the picture, I added 2 amber colored crackled glass beads on either side:
For the Title Nine bracelet I grabbed some hemp cord (from a Mommy and Emma project) and then had to find beads with a large enough hole - a couple candidates that would have looked cute had to be discarded because I couldn't get them onto the hemp cord. I found these simple square green glass beads - look kinda like sea glass don't they? - and on my second attempt at knotting came up with a design I like. My version has maaaybe $5 or so of supplies. The Title Nine bracelet is $55!
Isn't great that you know how to make your own jewelry and not have to pay those high prices! And I am sure the quality that you offer in your workmanship surpasses those sold in a catalog. I love looking at Chica catalogs for design inspirations. They do have some pretty jewelry.
ReplyDeleteI study those things for ideas as well...more about colorways or small details, like the knots in between the glass beads on that cord. Sometimes I think it would be fun to design for a company like Coldwater Creek or Sundance, but then again, I am all about the one-of-a-kind, one-at-a-time so that wouldn't work. Thanks for sharing the inspiration!
ReplyDeleteEnjoy the day!
Erin