Sunday Scrappin'

I have quite a bit to share this week for Sunday Scrappin'. School starts back on Thursday so I may not be so prolific again for awhile. First, although it's not scrapbooking, it's crafty, I put together a large rug for Brent's room. Here and here are two posts showing my Holidays in Hand layouts. And a slide show of the rest of the safety pin bracelets that I finished.

For my to-do's this week
1. I want to finish up the four last pages of my Holiday in Hand album.
2. I also want to do some cleaning up and organizing of my desk/office area. It is the only area in the house that I still have a few boxes left to empty.
3. I finished all the pieces for another house in my Christmas village and need to glue it together.
4. Need to gather up supplies to make a goody bag for Sunday Scrappin'.
5. I am doing Project 365 again this year. I want to stay current with it and work on posting my pics for last year. After the move I wasn't posting but was still taking the pictures.

Sunday Scrappin'

I am a day late with my Sunday Scrappin' post but I was celebrating Christmas with my family yesterday. Here are my previous posts with crafting included - post 1, post 2, post 3, post 4, post 5. I have finished the challenges at A Snapshot of My Life and am working on a daily December album based on Jessica Sprague's Holidays in Hand class. I also made a bunch of Safety Pin Bracelets.

Safety Pin Bracelets

A few weeks ago one of our good customers came in the store and had the coolest bracelet on - it was made with safety pins and beads. After finding out how easy they were to make I decided that I would make a bunch for Christmas presents. I ordered both silver and gold safety pins on line and got a batch of defective safety pins so had to send those back. I bought all the safety pins at JoAnne's and raided my stash of beads. These bracelets are so much fun to make and everyone seems to like them. I have made 15 of them and have plans for many more. I may put them in my Etsy store. Here is a slide show with some of the different bracelets I made. I kept the black and white one for myself. I have a couple more finished that I have photographed but will share them soon.

Two More Bracelets

Here are two more bracelets that I finished this week. They are the same bracelet pattern just different colors. It is from a kit at Wal-mart that was $3.96. You can't beat the price and the bracelet was fun to make and very cute. I have worn the pink one already!

Bracelets Finished

I have been beading again at night. We watched the season finale of Can You Duet? and then I stayed up and watched a DVD - 21 Grams so I had plenty of time to work on beads. Both of the bracelets are from kits from Wal-Mart. Yes, you read that right Wal-Mart. Can you believe it? Now they are not real crystals in the kits but for the $4-5 I paid for each kit I
thought they turned out rather nice. I have another one finished but it has gone MIA. I am sure one of the cats has it hidden. I also have one other kit to finish but they were fairly easy, fairly quick and loads of fun!

Bracelets Galore

I raided my stash of UFO's (UnFinished Objects) and found two bracelets that needed clasps. Why is it so much more fun to start a new craft project than finish up one that is already started? This bracelet is made from a pattern in The Best of Bead & Button and is Criss-cross Embellished Bracelet. This is the second bracelet that I have made from this pattern.
This second bracelet also needed a clasp. I was at my local bead store and saw a bracelet that I really liked so I came home and went through my beads and came up with this. It is not quite like the one at the bead store but I thought it turned out pretty nice and sparkly.

The third bracelet was finished at 11 p.m. one night last week. I have this cool new shirt that I was wearing to work and I had to have a matching bracelet. This is Peyete Eyelet Bracelet from Alice Korach and it was published at BeadBugle.com.