Flashback Friday-Poinsettia Necklace

Poinsettia Necklace

Supplies Needed:

• 1 Ceramic Poinsettia Pendant
• 2 holly leaf charms
• 2 sets of Holiday Pearls
• 4 red and white glass bumpy beads
• 6 lime 8mm Czech faceted rounds
• 10 Red Czech 6mm faceted rounds
• 20 silver 6mm discs
• 2 silver 4mm jump rings
• 4 crimps
• 1 silver hook clasp

Instructions:

1. Begin by crimping approximately 10 inches of beading wire to each side of the poinsettia pendant.
2. Open up each jump ring and slide on a holly leaf charm. Set these aside for stringing.
3. On one side, string a red Czech bead, one holly charm, and a silver disc.
4. String a ceramic pearl, a disc, a glass bumpy, a disc, a ceramic pearl, a disc, a lime Czech.
5. Continue by stringing a disc and then follow the sequence again, listed in step 4. Follow up the last pearl with a disc, two red, a lime, and another two red discs.
6. Add a crimp and half of the silver clasp.
7. String the second side of the poinsettia necklace just as you did the first.

Update

Good Morning!
I just wanted to pop in real quick and say I am still out there. I have a sick kid...Day three of being home from school. It's nothing serious and we've been to the doctor for medicine so that part is good. Nik and I are splitting the work days in half. Orders come before blogging so that means I have to turn the computer off and get out to the studio making and glazing beads.
Have a good day ...

Winners!

Hey, Hey just as I promised here is the list of winners for the Ornament Extravaganza last week. I guess I didn't state to put your name in the comment and so you'll have to read the comment or the sign in name and then email me, jennifer(at)jangles.net, with your name and address so I can mail your ornament off to you.

Before I go, to choose the winners I used a random number generator from the web, it was really cool. So if you ever need a random number here is the place to get it.

Thanks for all your comments, it was fun!

Mondays winner of the tree ornament is Rosebud101

Tuesdays winner of the Felt Tree is Mairedodd

Wednesdays winner of the Snowman is SusanM

Thursdays winner of the Peace sign is Anonymous who commented "Love it! So cute and funky, great for kids and adults!"

Fridays winner of the heart ornament is SethandKatie

Flashback Friday on Saturday

Supplies Needed for One Place Card Holder:

• 1 large ceramic character bead
• Approximately 12 inches 18 gauge silver craft wire

1. Begin by taking one end of your craft wire in the tip of your needle nose pliers. Turn the pliers in a circle to create a small swirl, measuring a half inch in diameter.
2. At the base of the swirl, make a right angle with the wire.
3. Slide the large beads onto the wire.
4. At the base if the large bead bend another right angle. Grab that right angle in the tip of you pliers and create another swirl, this time going around in circles several times.
5. This will be the base that you card holder stands on so you might need to work it with your fingers to make it flat.
6. Once the base is flat you're ready to make some name cards.

Ornament Extravanganza

It's the final day of my ornament extravaganza. I have really enjoyed reading all of your comments this week. If you haven't left a comment for your chance to win one of my ornaments you have until Saturday to do so. Leave a comment for one or every day of the week to be entered to win.

Today's ornament was made with a heart embellishment. I wired a hook to the embellishment and then embellished my embellishment even more. I used some sticky back rhinestones to outline the heart for a little more sparkle.

By the way,. if your looking for the flashback Friday post, come back tomorrow I will be posting it then.

Have a great day,

Ornament Extravanganza

Peace...
I made these pendants especially for ornaments, even though you could use it for a pendant. I added a big jump ring and a strand of ribbon and I had my ornament all ready to go. Check out the Etsy shop for my new large peace pendants.

I will be giving away one of my peace ornaments this week, leave a comment here in the post sometime before the end of Saturday the 14th and you could win. I will be giving an ornament away for everyday of the extravaganza so stop back by and leave a comment everyday. I will announce the winners on Monday here at the blog.

Have a great day,

Ornament Extravanganza

Hey, Hey, It's day three of my ornament extravaganza. Today's project is made with one of my snowmen pendants, a little wire, and some glass beads. I made a large wire loop and strung on my glass beads. Once they were strung I hung the snowman from the center and made a hook at the top for hanging. I am giving the exact instructions in my newsletter today. Are you signed up for my Holiday Project Newsletters? Sign up at the bottom of the page here.

I will be giving away this ornament this week, leave a comment here in the post sometime before the end of Saturday the 14th and you could win. I will be giving an ornament away for everyday of the extravaganza so stop back by and leave a comment everyday. I will announce the winners on Monday here at the blog.

Have a great day,











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Ornament Extravanganza

Hi there, welcome to day two of my Ornament Extravaganza. Today's ornaments is a bit of a sewing project. I promise it was super easy, so even if you don't sew, you could handle this one. I began by taking two triangles of green felt and sewing them together with a bit of stuffing, a felt trunk, and ribbon. I threaded on a star bead and sewed on strands of size 6 seed beads for garland.

I will be giving away one of my tree ornaments this week, leave a comment here in the post sometime before the end of Saturday the 14th and you could win. I will be giving an ornament away for everyday of the extravaganza so stop back by and leave a comment everyday. I will announce the winners on Monday here at the blog.

Have a great day,

Ornament Extravanganza

Welcome to day one of my Ornament Extravaganza! Today, I decided to go with a simple ornament. These are my new Holiday Pendants, they make a great ornaments as well as a great pendant. I used a silver craft wire to make a "swirly thing" at one end. I threaded this through the pendant and bent the wire so it was standing straight up. I added a few beads and made another loose swirl at the top and voila, the ornament was finished.

I will be giving away one of my tree ornaments this week, leave a comment here in the post sometime before the end of Saturday the 14th and you could win. I will be giving an ornament away for everyday of the extravaganza so stop back by and leave a comment everyday. I will announce the winners on Monday here at the blog.

Have a great day,

Ornament Extravaganza

Next week is going to be fun!

Starting Monday I will feature a new ornament project everyday of the week. To add to the fun, I will be having a contest too! You can leave a comment on the blog to be entered to win the ornament. I will give away all five of the featured ornaments on Friday, so you'll have five chances to win. You can comment once everyday to be entered in the drawing. I will announce the winners the following Monday,
November 16th.

Tell your friends so they can enter too.

Flashback Friday-Bag Charm

Bag Charm

Supplies Needed:

• 1 Ceramic Pendant with Three Bottom Loops
• 3 Coordinating Glass Beads
• 5 Black 6mm Faceted Round Czech Beads
• 3 silver 2 inch headpins
• 2 inches 20 gauge sterling silver wire
• 1 Key chain finding

Instructions:

1. Begin by stringing one of the headpins with a Czech bead and a glass bead. Make a simple wire loop and attach to the first wire loop at the bottom of the pendant.
2. Repeat step one and attach it to the last wire loop.
3. The second wire loop has a Czech bead, a glass bead, and another Czech bead. After stringing, attach it to the wire loop.
4. With your silver wire, make a wire loop and string through the pendant hole before closing.
5. String the last Czech bead in the wire and just above it make a wire loop again. This time attach the key chain finding on the loop before closing.
6. Trim any excess wire.

Pendants at the Emporium

Just added to the Jangles Emporium! I am slowly but surely adding new work to the Emporium. Today it is pendants, who knows what tomorrow will bring....

Cleaning

Morning...

I didn't blog yesterday because I was cleaning. Over the past month my studio has become a bit of a disaster. I was having to step over things to get around. I couldn't take it any more. This clean spurt I am going through also coincides with Halloween being over. I am not a huge fan of the holiday, if I had my way we would skip right over it and move to Christmas, but I realize I have to deal with it. I think yesterday was kind of the kick off to the holidays. Can't really say it was a kick off, it was more of a oh @%* in four weeks my tree will be up and I should be shopping, and making, and planning. With any of those moments, I usually have to have a good cleaning and list making session to prevent me from going crazy. That's what I did yesterday and will most likely be doing today, and maybe even tomorrow.

Anybody else out there coming to the realization that the holidays are coming?

Have a good day,

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Mad Color

Kaffe Fassett told me I had mad color skills, ah, I am still smiling today about that. I took a color/quilt workshop from the world famous Kaffe Fasset and Brandon Mably on Thursday. It was a ton of fun. The first quilt book I ever bought was Glorious Patchwork by Kaffe Fassett and it was when I was in college. When I heard that my local quilt shop, Dragonfly Quilts was hosting a workshop, I jumped at the chance to join the fun.

We were working on a quilt layout from his book called "Diagonal Madness" It's a bunch of 4 inch and two inch squares that are laid out in diagonals to create fun patchworky color. It's harder than it looks to get all those fabrics to work together.

So if you're thinking by now, "Jennifer this blog is supposed to be about beads..." well here you go. The first thing out of Kaffe's mouth at the workshop was this. He is a painter, a needle worker, a knitter, a designer, and a quilter. They are all ways of getting his passion out. It's color. That's what most artists are about is the color. We all choose one or two or more mediums to convey those colors we have in our head. That hit home for me, because that's exactly how I feel too. So even though I was laying out quilt blocks on Thursday, it could have just as easily been a piece of jewelry or a painting.


Here's Kaffe talking about some of the other layout's in class.

Here's is Brandon talking about the class too. Look there's my quilt layout behind them.

I love this quilt with all the pinks, blues, and greens.

I think this was my favorite layout in the class. I am in love with her colors.

Check out the cookies! Jessica Brynn Howard at Numero Uno made these. Don't they look just like Brandon's shirt? They were really yummy too.

Now comes the not as much fun part of the process, I have to sew all of those squares together. I will show you when I have some of it assembled.

Have a great weekend,

Flashback Friday-Holly Earrings

Holly Earrings

What you'll need:

• 1 Pair Red Dot Balls
• 2 Holly Leaf Charms
• 6 inches of 20 gauge sterling silver wire
• 2 Ear Hooks

Instructions:

1. Begin by making a simple wire loop on one end of the sterling silver wire. Before closing it, slide on one of the holly leaf charms, then close the loop.
2. String a red ball onto the wire.
3. Make a simple wire loop just above the ball. Trim the excess wire.
4. Add the ear hook to the top loop.
5. Repeat steps one through four to make the matching earring.

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Jennifer

Wednesday?

How did it get to be Wednesday? This week is flying by for me. My newsletter is just about to go out and I feel like I was just sending one out a few days ago.

Speaking of newsletters. I just found 50 newsletter submission requests in my spam file! I want to apologize to those people for not getting all of the newsletters. I added you to my list today and you will get a letter today. It's funny because I get the requests in my inbox also, so I guess my computer was messing with me. Now I know to check my spam for them so it shouldn't happen again.
Isn't my fabric pretty? I am super excited to be taking a Kaffe Fassett workshop tomorrow. He's a well know knitter/quilter that lives in London. He's in the states for a few weeks doing workshops and he just happened to be coming to my town. I had to sign up. I have made several Kaffe Fassett quilts over the years so I am super excited to meet him. He loves color and that is mostly what he will be talking about. Yippee, just like me. We are making a quilt and we had to choose three different color ways for it. Of course, I chose red, lime green, and turquoise. I will show you when it's finished.
Happy Birthday Otis! He's two years old...wow time flies. I got him a tube of tennis balls for his birthday. That's his favorite toy.

Alrighty, I am out to the studio to make some beads. Everyone have a great day!

Ready For Halloween

Morning...y'all

We've got our Halloween costumes assembled and parts made. This year I will have a vampire and a Team Galactic guy. It's an evil Pokemon team leader for those of you who are wondering.

My mom was here and she decorated the porch. I am not a huge fan of Halloween, you should know that by now. I would rather jump straight to Christmas. But the other houses in the neighborhood were not going to be better than her grankids house. You know how that goes....so now our porch is all decked out and ready for next weekend. Thanks Grandma.

Happy Monday,

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Flashback Friday-House Key Necklace

Supplies:

• 1 set of Home Sweet Home Beads
• 1 small purple ceramic flower
• 1 small ceramic sun
• 1 small ceramic house
• 1 Tropical bead mix
• 12 4mm silver balls
• 1 key ring approx. 3/4 inch
• 1 silver clasp
• 3 silver 1mm crimps
• 30 inches beading wire

Instructions:

1. String the key ring onto the beading wire. Slide one of the crimps over both strands of the beading wire. Crimp the key ring to the center of the beading wire, with the crimp you just strung on.
2. On one side of the beading wire string a glass bead and follow it by a silver bead, a "home" bead, another silver ball, and a glass bead. Continue stringing another silver ball, the "sweet" bead, a silver ball, a glass, a silver ball, the last "home" bead and a silver ball.
3. Before stringing any more beads on make sure you have the "Home Sweet Home going the correct direction to be read. Next string approximately 11 inches of the glass bead mix.
4. Crimp one end of the silver clasp to the beading wire.
5. Now begin stringing the second side of the necklace with a glass bead, a silver ball, the flower bead, a silver bead, and another glass bead.
6. String a silver ball, the house bead, a silver ball, a glass bead, a silver bead, the sun, and another silver ball.
7. Start stringing beads until you have the same length of beads as you did on the first half of the necklace. This should be approximately 11 inches.
8. Add the second half of the clasp to the necklace and crimp.
9. You are now ready to add you keys and get walking!

Holiday Beads

Good morning...
I woke up in a really Christmas-sy mood this morning. I am not sure what did this to me, but maybe it was all the photographing of Holiday beads that I did yesterday. Anyway, I am feeling the Holiday's now. I even put peppermint in my mocha this morning. I am ready to decorate and play the music, but I have to dig it all out and so that will have to wait until Halloween is over. But I am excited it's coming soon.

I added a whole bunch of new beads to the Etsy shop last night and this morning. I still need to take more photographs today and then I will be adding more listings, probably tonight. It's not just Christmas beads, there's found object mixes, pendants, etc. I know the holiday mood might not have hit you yet..... but hang around this blog and it will sooner or later, I promise.

Have a great day,

My Weekend

Happy Monday...right? Believe it or not, it's my husbands favorite day of the week. We like to give him a hard time for that, because who else likes Monday's the best?

Now that I have a phone with a camera, yes, it took me awhile...I snapped some pictures of my weekend and I thought I would share them with you. We had a really fun day of fall activities planned on Saturday and then they all got washed away by the rain. It pretty much rains all of the time in Georgia these days. We went to the pumpkin patch and picked our pumpkins in the rain, but then we had to skip the corn maze, hay rides, and fall festival that was going on. We went home instead, maybe next weekend we will get to go to the corn maze.

That evening, I got to go to my friend Amy's house for a Diwali celebration (Indian Holiday). We all have been asking for awhile for Indian cooking lessons and she had the idea top celebrate and cook together all afternoon. It was super fun and I am anxious to try the recipes out in my kitchen. We made paneer, which is the cheese in a lot of Indian dishes, a bread, rice, and three main dishes. Mmmm, I want to eat it all again looking at this picture.


Anyone who has been to my house in the past three years has seen paint swatches stuck to the wall in my kitchen. It's has been an ongoing debate on what color to paint it. Finally Nik got tired and gave me entire control. He was sick of the brown walls and sick of talking about colors. So I painted! Of course I had to throw in a little lime green, but three of the walls are the darker green. I am really happy with the way it turned out. I still need to build some shelves and paint the cabinet knobs, and hang things but it's coming along nicely. I can now start hanging paint swatches in the bathrooms...hee hee
It was a busy weekend, but fun. Now it's time to get out in the studio and get glazing some Holiday beads.....Have a great day,

Flashback Friday-Holiday Inspiration

This weeks Flashback to last years Holiday project, really wasn't a project. The newsletter was jam packed full of inspiration, just not instructions. I think you can look at all of these and see how they are put together. Most of these beads are up on the website and next week, watch out, the Etsy store is going to be packed full of new Holiday. I will let you know when it happens.

Have a great Friday!
Jennifer

Halloween Beads are on Sale!

I just stocked up the Etsy shop with Halloween beads, and today I marked them 20% off. This is just for the Etsy Halloween beads and when they are gone they are gone, so get them now.

Happy Halloween!
Jennifer

Flashback Friday-Memory Wire Charm Bracelet

Memory Wire Charm Bracelet

Supplies Needed:

• 6 ceramic charms
• 7 black 6mm faceted Czech beads
• 140 size 6 seed beads in coordinating colors
• approx. 16 inches memory wire
• wire cutters
• round nose pliers

Instructions:

1. Begin by grabbing one end of the memory wire in your round nose pliers. Turn the pliers to make a loop, making sure the end of the wire is turned in. This will ensure, thewire isn't scratching the wearer.
2. Give your seed beads a good stir and then string ten of the beads onto the wire. After the ten beads, add a Czech bead.
3. From now on string ten seed beads and then alternate between adding a ceramic charm or a czech bead. Do this until you have used all of your beads.
4. Trim the excess memory wire, leaving an inch to make a loop.
5. Repeat step one to make the loop. Make sure to roll he wire around until it is snug against the seed beads.

Enjoy your project! This was last years Holiday Project number one. We had a new project this Wednesday that was sent out in the e-mail newsletter. If you didn't get it in your inbox that's means you're not signed up. Go to the Jangles Website to sign up so you don't miss another.

Have a great weekend,
Jennifer

Finally, New Things on Etsy!

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I am gearing up for tomorrow's first Holiday Project, Wahoo! I have it almost ready but in the meantime, I really needed to get some new beads in the Etsy shop. I am adding new beads as we speak and there will be more added tomorrow as well. Just thought I would let you know....

Have a good one,
Jennifer

Finally,

The Art Fair

Whew! What a weekend, I remember why I stopped doing art fairs, they are a lot of work. I had a lot of fun even though, I was working hard. Here are the pictures of my booth from the weekend. I think the display turned out all right since I really didn't have a complete plan. Usually, I set things up in my house first to get everything the way I wanted it. I was winging it this weekend.

All in all it was a good sale, so enjoy the pictures....I am going to go unpack the van now...





Have a great day,

Open Studios Tour

Studios Magazine is having an Open Studios tour online this weekend. I thought it sounded like fun, so I am posting the photos of my studio. Since I have been featured in their magazine already, I thought it would be fun to post some before and after pictures. When my studio was new, it so clean and now, well, it's been worked in. I find it impossible to keep it completely clean. Plus, I could always use more space, but isn't that always true? So take a look around and enjoy the photos...


Okay, those were the beautiful before pictures, now here is what the studio usually looks like. I will be at an art fair this weekend, so I have been getting ready all week, there's been no time for cleaning.


Hope you all enjoyed the tour..have fun visiting other studios, I know I can't wait to see where people create.

Happy Saturday,
Jennifer

Packed Up and Ready to Go

Hey there,

My friends came over yesterday and saved me. I am still amazed at how much jewelry we got made. We got things priced and bagged and boxed and ready to go. I am feeling pretty good about how much I have for the show. You know there are always more things I would like to make, but that will have to wait until next year. I have everything in boxes and ready to be loaded into the van, I am going to do that this afternoon because we have an early departure tomorrow.
Here are all my display items, ready to be packed.
This is all of my stock boxed and ready to go. It's quite a change from back when I made tables. It would take me four hours to pack my truck. I had a little Chevy s10 that I could fit almost 75 tables in. It was like a puzzle to get it to fit. I'm guessing this is going to take me ten montutes to load. I was always envious of the jewelers, now I get to be one of them.

If you're in the Atlanta area please stop by and say hi. It's the Norcross Art Fest. You can find all of the information here.

See ya!