little bit of liberty

Carol sent me wonderful news - Target is going to be carrying lines by Liberty of London in their stores on March 14th!! My calendar is marked.

In the meantime I have these to tide me over:

Trish sent me a yard of this for Christmas. I love having a friend who travels to London on business.

These were made around the holidays to hold back hair that I'm growing out again.

(The bobby pin blanks are from Hobby Lobby. The covered button blanks were thrifted, but are available everywhere. The Liberty scraps are from the fabulous rummage sale I went to with Poppy.)

While I was at it, I made a couple charms for myself.

(All the jewelry making supplies are from Hobby Lobby. The buttons are doll sized. I used a paper glaze, but think it needs a few more coats to look right.)

I plan to be waiting for the doors to open March 14th.

ellie's guide to glamour

I'm not the only one who had luck thrifting this week.

The girl knows what she likes.

If I had guts, I'd wear the green flowers. Love them.

These look fabulous with pink sneakers:

Heaven help the man she marries.

latchkey blogger

Fixed up an old necklace last week.

I made the key about 12 years ago in a community college jewelry class. We did a lot of casting in silver. The original key used for the casting was a plastic piece for cake decorations. I'd strung the silver version on some mustard colored ribbon which looked great with a sweater I no longer own. I realized I hadn't worn the necklace since the sweater got purged. It now hangs on a length of twill tape.

coral necklace

Another beading project ticked off the to do list. The coral pieces were purchased in China two years ago when we adopted Trixie.

Nothing too hard about this project. Just hours of tedious stringing tiny pieces of coral. Good thing I watch far too much television.

procrastination or memory lapse?

I found this bracelet, completely strung, in my beading supplies when I went looking for my pliers earlier this week. It still had the little clamps on it and I discovered it only needed to have the wires crimped near the clasp. (The clamps were keeping it from falling apart before it got crimped.)

Why on earth would I have not finished it it? It took all of 5 seconds to do. I can't even remember putting it in there, though I vaguely remember putting it together. The smaller painted beads were bought on our first adoption trip to China and have the double happiness character on them.

No sense wondering at this point. I'll just enjoy wearing it. Finally.

Also, I didn't really put a time on the contest deadline. So, if you haven't entered, you have until my children arrive home from school tomorrow - 3:00pm Chicago time. I'll try to post the winner later that night.