Word Art Pictures

Here's a lovely idea for a wedding gift - personalised word art in a picture frame

They're made using a box frame. This is deeper than a regular picture frame, so you can put 3D objects in it.
As you can see, scrabble-like tiles work very well! (They're not Scrabble tiles, mind you. That's a registered trademark, and I don't have the rights to use that...No indeed. These are wooden letter tiles. Arranged in a crossword formation)

This one used a birch coloured frame from The Range, it matched really nicely with the wooden tiles. And I've used an 8x8 backing sheet to set them off.

They also came in white!

Cards

I haven't made cards in a while - don't tell anyone, but lots of my stuff is still in storage.

I did whip up a few invitations for a birthday. You probably don't need to see all of them though...

 

Oh alright - you can see them all if you like!

Here are the gold ones (I've made lots and lots in silver as well, they'll pop up over the next few weeks)

I've used my magic embossing machine. I love my embossing machine. It's only a tiny wee handbag one, but it makes such pretty patterns..

What else is there? Oh yes, heat embossing. I haven't done that in ages: took rather a lot of practice attempts to get the hang of it again. And I really must use an anti-static cloth in future!

Butterfly Earrings

A lovely lady at work asked if I could make some butterfly earrings... goodness me, yes I could!

I've even managed to list one here!

Some more glasses chains

So here's what I got up to this Christmas.

These are a little simpler than I usually make - they're all made from one style of seed bead, and the rubber ends are attached permanently to horseshoe shaped wire guardians. These guardians protect the rubber glasses holders from the wire.

I've got plenty of colours left to experiment with - they'll be listed in my Etsy shop as soon as my camera battery charges back up!

If you fancy a colour I haven't made yet, please let me know at bojanglies@yahoo.co.uk

Happy New Year!

I hope everyone had a grand time over Christmas - I had two weeks at home with the family, no cooking, no cleaning... it was ace ! (Sorry, Mum!)

I made a bundle of new glasses chains, and finished a few more Christmas ornaments.
Which is what I've got to show you today.

Better late than never, I guess...

These were made using glass beads and silver coloured spacers. The shape is a ready made snowflake available from Beadsmith.
They're effective, but my oh my, are they hard work! I bent pliers twisting the ends round. Next time I think I'll be gluing bead caps on the end!

There are shiny blues and turquoises:

 

Shiny red and green ones...

 

And shiny purple and silver ones. Which are available the right way up!

I give up - I've spent an hour trying to straighten these photos!

Beard Bells

You may have seen Beard Baubles taking the internet by storm...
Of course I have to jump on that band wagon.

Introducing Beard Bells!!

Tiny jingle bells attached to hair grips!

Join the conversation here (So far it's just lots of people telling Mark he needs some...)

Glasses chains

Well, those grand plans didn't take long to fall apart! I had completely forgotten about the blog...

All the market stalls are over and done with for the year - I've still got the display up at the opticians - and I've taken over most of the windows as well!

Louise did a fantastic job manning her work fayre last week. The only problem is that she seems to have sold all my earrings...

I've had a bit of a Christmas rush on glasses chains (someone has described them as a perfect stocking filler), so thought this week I'd show off some of my shiny new colours

Available here

There'll be plenty more to list in the new year. I spend my Christmas holiday surrounded by beads, in front of the telly!