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It's Stay-At-Home Hand Made Friday! What hand made pieces are you wearing today?

A butterfly is keeping me company while I work from home.

HMF & HKF

It's Hand Made and Hand Knit Friday! What hand made pieces are you wearing today? To make up for skipped posts due to crazy holiday prep, I'm decked out with two hand made beauties today. Happy New Year!

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It's Hand Made Friday! What hand made beauties are you wearing today? I have on one of my favorites.

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It's Hand Made Friday! What hand made pieces are you wearing today? We had a rare dusting of snow in the hills here a few days ago and there will be much more in the Sierra this weekend.

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It's Hand Made Friday! What hand made pieces are you wearing today? I've been hearing Christmas tunes over the airwaves all day, so I thought I'd wear something to celebrate the season. Happy Friday everyone!

HMF

It's Hand Made Friday and it has been raining since Wednesday! The air is clean and the fire north of us is 95% contained. *whew* Today I'm wearing a pewter pendant with Swarovski bling. I'll have this and other pieces at a Flash Craft Fair on December 7 in Mountain View, CA. More information coming soon.

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It's Hand Made Friday! What hand made pieces are you wearing today? It's chain maille & mandala day.

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It's Hand Made Friday! What hand made beauties are you wearing today? I'm working on a set of new pendants for the shop and thought the option of a birthstone accent might be nice. What do you think?

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It's Hand Made Friday! What hand made beauties are you wearing today? I'm wearing the Swarovski blingy butterfly on a new chain necklace I'm trying out. I really like the look, so now I need to make some new pendants for you all!

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It’s Hand Made Friday! What hand made pieces are you wearing today? I’m wearing a beady Beadlemania bracelet and the Swarovski butterfly pendant.

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Warm temps are not conducive to hand knits so I opted for a hand made necklace with Swarovski crystals. Happy Hand Made Friday!

HKF/HMF

It's Hand Knit and Hand Made Friday at Stitches West! What hand made pieces are you wearing today? I'm wearing Chimney Fire, Mardi Gras Pincha, and a blingy butterfly.

Twisted, bent, and wrapped

I admit it. I'm hooked on Craftsy classes. The one I've been engrossed in lately is the Jewelry Workshop taught by Max Goodman.

Engrossed. That's one word for it.


Red Jasper and sterling silver wire wrapped bracelet


Czech beads and sterling silver wire wrapped bracelet


Sterling Silver Wire Wrapped Bracelet and Earrings With Glass Beads


Crystals and Wire Wrapped Bracelet and Earrings


Glass Beads and Sterling Silver Bracelet


Glass Beads and Sterling Silver Bracelet

The class also covers chain making and chain maille. I had a lot of trouble with the jump rings flipping around with the chain maille, but I finally got it. These practice pieces are made with inexpensive aluminum jump rings.


Bird's Nest chain


Chain maille

I decided it was time to order sterling silver jump rings and assorted Swarovski crystals from Rio Grande Jewelry Supplies to make a "for real" chain maille piece.


So much potential

Here are the chain maille earrings.


4-in-1 Chain Maille Earrings

The design is from Beaducation.com.