Letter Charms and a Sale

Hello!

How is everyone out there in blogland? I hope good. I need to take some studio pictures to show you what I have been up to. Yesterday I painted ornaments all day. It was fun. I think this weekend  I am going to start working on holiday decorations in the gallery. I need to get some holiday music too, is it too early for that? I might need to wait a few weeks for it.

This weeks holiday project is personalized bookmarks. I made these snazzy new letter charms for personalizing gifts and your own things. I made this necklace with a J charm on it. I also made a zipper pull. My boys are going to have these on there back packs soon.

I guess I am just going to go ahead and give away all the secrets of this weeks newsletter in this blog post. Leave me a comment here and you will be entered to win a bookmark supplies kit to make your own.

Also, I am having a big ol sale in the Etsy shop all week. Ten percent off starting right now and running until Wednesday Nov 2nd. Enter the code news4 in the coupon box before checkout. I won't be adding anything else to the shop this week so shop early and get what you want.



Have a great day!
Jennifer
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Bookmarks

Hope everyone is doing well out in Cyber land. I am as busy as one of Santa's elves in the Jangles studio. Filling orders, making projects, and even starting to think about making gifts for my friends and family. I know...I haven't bought or made one gift. That will start as soon as Thanksgiving is over.

I just made this fancy dancy bookmark. I love making these for gifts and plan to do some more for gifts this year. I just use a head pin to string the beads up and attach it to the link with a wire loop. The bookmark comes with a jump ring so you open it up and slide it on. They look really snazzy and they don't cost very much to make.

To make it even easier on you, I have added some bookmark sets to the Jangles Etsy shop. I also have the bookmarks individually at the Jangles website.

Have a great day,

Bookmarks

Project Instructions

Supplies needed for one bookmark

1 link bead, 1 2" headpin , 1 accent bead(I used a 6mm faceted czech bead), 1 silver plated bookmark, round nose pliers, chain nose pliers

1. Begin by stringing your headpin with an accent bead.
2. Make a simple wire loop and hook it onto one of the wire loops of the link bead. Close the loop and trim the excess wire.
3. Open the jump ring included on your bookmark, string on the remaining loop of the ceramic link bead.