christmas belles
yeah, it's the same title as my blog post at kate5kiwis lol (you can read the whole story over there if ya like, or not!!! bwahahahahahahaha)
cos this morning i have a very uncreative pre-espresso headache, am waiting for hubby to get home from his saturdaymorningemergencydashtowork, thinking i'm gonna have to turn the machine on and up my blood-caffeine ratio.
right then
*peering through haze*
i have got out my wire and suitcase full of beads again and made these two delish concoctions for a Virtual Friend *grin* in FRANCE!!!!!
paua pearl necklace
it took me ages and many tries to get the paua one perfect, i tried wiring a paua flower like the one i made a year ago, but my original supplier has shut up shop and so i had to buy some paua beads at twice the price and they wouldn't work the same, so decided to change the whole style of the necklace, i made it into a miniature version of lizard's, cos it's for a thirteen year old girl. (details, details, always details)
and then i made this
christmas crème brulée necklace
which looks absolutely fabulous IRL (if i say so myself lol), it catches the light beautifully.
and now i'm off to concoct a billion little Christmas things, cos this year is another handmade kiwi christmas.
what are you girls doing/making for pressies this year???
cos this morning i have a very uncreative pre-espresso headache, am waiting for hubby to get home from his saturdaymorningemergencydashtowork, thinking i'm gonna have to turn the machine on and up my blood-caffeine ratio.
right then
*peering through haze*
i have got out my wire and suitcase full of beads again and made these two delish concoctions for a Virtual Friend *grin* in FRANCE!!!!!
paua pearl necklaceand then i made this
christmas crème brulée necklaceand now i'm off to concoct a billion little Christmas things, cos this year is another handmade kiwi christmas.
what are you girls doing/making for pressies this year???
posted by skatey katie at 12:14 PM
3 Comments:
That necklace looks familiar!! I was hoping to skip Christmas and use traveling to China as my excuse. Unfortunately I now have to pay attention, because we aren't traveling as soon as we wanted to. SOO I am just now sort of paying attention to Christmas. I am trying to knit a hat for Mei Mei, but it is slow going.
Love the creme brulee necklace-so pretty!
Kate, those are both so beautiful! I really really like them both. As far as presents go, I am hoping to finish my paintings for Honor's room by then and maybe hang them on Christmas morning (so sad that something so simple would take me a year to finish).
Also, we just put up the Christmas tree (the first year with an artificial one...so sad...but we have nearby family who are allergic to all the kinds of natural ones we have available around here...did I mention so sad?. I really miss that wonderful smell of fresh tree. Ah, well...)
Anyways, we decided to let my son (3 years) help. He did very well until he shattered one of the green balls we have. That made him sad, but not sad enough to be gentle with the others...so it looks like now that he has put up all the non-breakables that we have, I will be putting up the rest while he's sleeping.
liz
yeah, your necklace is the prototype, this is ever-so-slightly different, you know me, i find it too boring to make the same thing twice lol.
china will happen soon, good on ya knitting the hat.
i'm off to gaze at your christmas windows X
kellsey
on the bright side, woohoo that you are finishing your work of art and what a perfect time to give it to honor.
i am promising the kiddos a *real* tree next year, i am going to buy myself and S10 a huge box of anti-sneeze pills X
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