Pop Tabs

Hello everyone :D
We did well at our competition and got great remarks from the judges, but unfortunetely we didn't make it to finals. I thought we did AWESOME; I was so proud of us girls. We had tooons of fun just chillin all day and performing. So all in all I had a good weekend.

Onto new jewelry updates: I made my mom collect all our pop can tabs for like a week (turns out I didn't need that much for what I wanted to do) so I could make a ribbon necklace with the tabs.
It took like 5 mins.. and turned out really cute! Here's how I did it:


First you need to collect a good amount of pop can tabs..obviously.. haha. If you want to use ribbon, get a ribbon with a width of about 0.5 in-1 in.


Now start stringing the tabs on the ribbon. Floding the ribbon in half is easier and looks better when stringing through.


String quite a few on until you can wrap it around your neck and have room to tie it in the back.



Viola! You have a simple, recycled necklace!
And I'm sorry if these directions were confusing in any way.. Even though they're simple I probably messed up somewhere.
Enjoy :D

My New Icon

You would have to be INSANE not to think Agyness Deyn is the next.. oh lets say.. Kate Moss.. Or most likely even bigger. She's so different! I love it. When I first saw her modeling for House of Holland I immediately wanted her short choppy hair (and one of their cute, technicolour tees) . I used to have hair similar, but I've let it grow out about 10 inches. It's taken forever so I'm really scared to cut it again. But.. Miss Deyn has definitely inspired me with her crazy style.
I absolutely love this huge flower necklace she's wearing while modeling the Anna Sui Fall 2008 line:


If only I could make a flower like that for a gold chain. I mean it looks like just felt and sparkles.. Oh well, the point is, this chick can pull anything off. And I'm really excited to see her do more American ad campaigns.

Anywho- today was not too great. I had show choir rehearsal after school because we have a competition on Saturday. I'm pretty stoked! We're really awesome this year and hopefully we can kick everyone's butts with our sparkly teal dresses :)
And it's been snowing for a while.. which means maybe a two-hour delay? I'm crossing my fingers.

Long Necklaces are Elegant

I have this thing for long necklaces. Like 26-28 inchers. I love wrapping them around your neck twice, or just wearing them wrapped once. They're kind of frustrating to make though because you have to really plan ahead and make sure you won't run out of wire (or other stringing material), beads, or crimps.

Two weeks ago I tried making an invisible, long necklace with this type of string similar to fishing line, except "supposedly" stronger. Well it didn't take me long to snap the wire.. So then I started back up again (because luckily I had not cut the string yet so I had an ample amount) and of course I broke the string and crimp bead. >:(

So I was reluctant to start it over again but I tried a type of wire, 0.38 mm, and succeeded! Whoo. I strung pink round beads and tube-like purple beads about 1 1/2 inches apart with crimps holding them in place. It ended up being pretty long; I don't even remember the exact inches. It's really delicate, which bugs me.. I wish it was stronger. I need to go find stronger wire. Anyway, here's a pic: (excuse my Hello Kitty backpack and fuzzy slippers haha)



The other two pictures are of a necklace I recently made out of just leftover beads and random parts. I love how it turned out! The robins egg blue is one of my favorite colors and I really like the black bow. So there you have it.
I'm off to do some chemistry homework... eughh.

Hello World..

I guess blogs are all the rage now.. I'll admit I've spent quite a while figuring this out, but I think I'm getting the hang of it! To start off - my name is Kimmy. I've always recreated old things into new things and made my own clothes and accessories. Recently I've been beading. Like, hardcore. I will go up to my room and not come out for hours and make lots of jewelry. So far I've made lots of necklaces.

So I'm gonna use this blog to post about all my creations, findings, and opinions. I definitely like blogging alot better than Myspace...

Today is President's Day, so I didn't have to go to school, which was AWESOME - but then again I had to watch my little brothers while my mom was at work. Ugh. So I found this one tutorial online (I know forget where) that showed how to make pretty little flowers out of the bottom of water bottles. Sounds stupid, but it was actually quite fun. Here are two I made:

I think they're pretty cute :)