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My First!!!!!
A dear friend of mine and his wife are expecting their first baby together and I wanted to make something special for them. So I went shopping and instead of just gift wrapping their present I decided to give a try to making a diaper cake - well it is MY First! so hope you like it (1) Here I had already wrapped all the diapers in place and added the cute monkey blanket and placed the hat on top (2) a side view of the unfinished project (3) some of the items in place - front view (4) Back view Here is the finished project all ready to go. And here is a simple card I made to go along with the gift. I had some of the May Arts ribbons and added to the front of the card.
May Arts - Back to The Beach! Jewelry
I wanted to make some jewelry using some of the ribbons from May Arts . Here are two bracelets I came up with today. Hope you like them. here I used some of beadalon memory wire and some german wire - 1. strung the ribbon on the memory wire along with some pearls until all the wire was covered with ribbon and pearls. 2. used two open end crimps at the ends of the wire and ribbon using my pliers I closed the crimps. 3. took some of the german wire 20 g. and strung some pearls at the end a shell and turned them into dangles added to the crimps - one on each end of the wire, bracelet done and ready to wear. Here is the finished bracelet all ready to wear - it is really light and you hardly feel it when it's on. I gathered all these items to see what I would come up with; recycled jeans, piece of a white blouse, May Arts ribbon, fabric tac, white velcro, some assorted pearls and shells and my favorite scissors - well I did not use the white fabric after all - see the f