Crocheted Bead Bracelets and Set

Crocheted Bead Bracelets and Set

It's been hectic at work and home lately.

These little babies keep me sane at times.

A bonus that my daughter appreciates them and managed to get orders from friends too!

I did some other patterns and color combinations on the beads that I have. I haven't photographed all of them.

Here are some:

A set for Mary. Custom lengths too!

  

This one is my favorite. It proved popular amongst my friends too. I made a long chain to create a focal point in the middle. I'm going to put a knot in it! But as these things go, I made the ones for friends first before I  finish mine. 

This one is custom made for Faye.

Mary liked it too but I ran out of beads so until then, off to finish the other orders. 

What do you think? 

Happy crafting!

May xx

More DIY Crocheted Bead bracelets!

Hello all!

So, Christmas and Santa has come and gone! Phew! That was a lot of food and family time. Precious times when we all get together and realize how lucky we are to have all the gorgeous family members we have. 

I have been lucky to be off for 6 days over Christmas! That was something I haven't had for months! 

What else can a girl do than take this down time as an opportunity to craft! Ha!

Crafted I did! See!! 

Warning: lots of photos of these beauts :-)  

Also, please forgive the unedited mess. 

If you liked them, let me know! My better half said these beauties can definitely be gifted... 

Now off to work I go tonight for 6 nights in a row. Now that is something to ponder and heave my chest. Like last year, when midnight strikes I will be on the phone with my kids and husband doing the countdown with them armed with my coin purse and a healthy space to be jumping on and screaming "Happy New Year!!!" In the hospital, finding a space to do that is tough and so I found it in the back stairs! No one around to mock me or shush me and far enough from everyone that I can still celebrate new year jumping! Breathless and happy is a good way to start the new year. It could be better by spending it with family but hey, I can come home 8 hours later and find them most probably comfortably asleep and warm which makes me happy.

What's your new year's celebration tradition? As a family, we normally have cheese and biscuits for midnight... Yum!

For the New Year, I wish you all overflowing love and happiness and good health!

May xxx

DIY Crocheted Rope Bead Bracelet

DIT Crocheted Rope Bracelet

Another one of my crochet rope bracelet.

It's made using slate grey and clear silver lined bead.

Pattern is 1a1b, rounds of 6.

It's quite pretty if I may say so myself! 

I hope you like it! 

Merry Christmas everyone!

May xx

Crochet Seed Bead Rope Bracelet with my Favorite Stack

On this bracelet, I used a size 8 seed bead in aqua with a silver lining. It's a row of 6 and about 4.5 inches in length.

I added a bead cap, gem and silver tone spacers, crystals and a pearl.

And here it is with my diy pearls and crystal bracelet and Tiffany silver bead bracelet. I have used this stack on literally anything I have worn and got so many lovely comments about them. 

They are so cute and simple to make. Because of the size of the seed beads, you can easily whip the crochet bead rope in an hour or so depending on how quick you are with those hooks! ;-)

Enjoy! 

May xxx

DIY Crochet Rope Bead Bracelet

DIY Crochet Rope Bead Bracelet

I love crochet. I tried crocheting a rope bead and it took a while to get to this length. Fiddly is an understatement! But i finally did it! They are size 11 seed beads in a pattern of 8. I think I ran out of beads to crochet when I made this piece, either that or my fingers were already hurting and I was giddy to make something finished!

I'm pleased with how it turned out. The beads has a silver lining so it's slightly shiny.

Silver wire, matching spacer bead and ta-da!

I have made a few rope beads but not made them into anything yet.. Pinterest has some fascinating inspirations. My ropes aren't long enough for necklaces though. If only I have a few extra hours to do them ;-)

Let me know what you think! 

May xx

DIY Arm Candies

I'm sorry I've been AWOL for a while. But I thought you'd like to see my latest hand crafted DIY'ed arm candies! They're pretty much self explanatory. I used pink quartz, sapphire ruby and emerald beads, and swarovski crystals. Sadly, I have lost a few precious gem bracelets I've made before and it's all to do with the closures I used. This time around, I used an elastic thread and just crimped the ends together. I find them slightly more secure than the toggle closures. I also don't have to worry about it tarnishing as I use it all day everyday if I do decide to put them on when I get dressed.

It's nice to be back crafting. I've been busy doing other things like sewing and beading! I'll try and post some of it in the next few days or weeks ;-)

May xx

PS I thought you guys might want to have a look at some pictures of them ;-)