styling ideas: ribbons and bows

Ribbons are great for adding a bit of colour and detail to your look. Heres a few ideas how to style ribbons....

glue gun

OK this might be really sad but I'm so excited about owning a PINK glue gun! When people at work asked me what I was getting for my birthday and I mentioned this ^^ , "Oh..right...?" was the general reaction but who cares?! I love my new glue gun, thank you mum!

feather earrings diy

I used:

Black feathers, Beads, Earring loops, Connectors, Jewellery making pliers, Thin wire, Chain

Thread one bead on to the wire and wrap the wire around the bead and secure at the top of the bead. Then add the chain, loop both ends of the chain over the top wire. Then add the second bead and wrap the rest of the wire around the top of the feather.

Close the connector over the part of the feather with the wire wrapped around it and connect the earring loop to the connector. And thats it!

diy earrings to ring

I loved these earring but they're pretty big so when I tired them on they pulled my ear lobes down which isn't a great look. I didn't want to waste them so I made one of them into a ring. I cut the post off one of the earrings with pliers. I then put a pea sized blob of glue gun glue on a ring blank and put the flower on top. It was so easy to do, only took about 15 minutes and now I have a lovely new ring.

friendship bracelet necklace

This layered friendship necklace caught my eye in Accessorize the other day and I knew straight away I was going to make my own version. 

I used embroidery threads, wool, beads, two large jump rings and a metal clasp. I used turquoise, yellow and pink thread and pink wool. Firstly measure the wool around your neck and cut to the correct length. I tied the end of the wool and about 40cm of thread together and tied them to the handle of a drawer. You then need to wrap the thread around the length of wool. I wrapped the other end of the thread around some card to make it easier. I wrapped the thread around the wool as far as I wanted it to go and then tied the thread and wool together again. I added in beads to the thread every so often and tied the thread to wool to secure. 

When you untie the wool from whatever you had it tied to it will twist around on itself, to stop it doing this and to help keep the thread in place, iron over the wool and thread.

I also plaited some of the thread and wrapped thin gold thread around pieces of wool to make some parts of the necklace. 

I sewed the ends of each strand together and then sewed them on to two large jump rings and attached a clasp.