Crafting
DIY Pink Ribbon Friendship Bracelets
We’re crafting for a cause with this DIY Pink Ribbon Friendship Bracelet tutorial! Let me provide a little background on how this project came to be… When I was 10 and she was 40, my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. Luckily, thanks to great doctors, treatment and a mastectomy, she was declared cancer-free for close to 10 years. Unluckily, around age 50, my mom’s cancer returned. Leftover breast cancer…
DIY Color Blocked Disk Beaded Necklaces
Color block beaded jewelry has been majorly trending, largely thanks to Roxanne Assoulin’s colorful creations and the subsequent wave of color blocked jewelry that’s followed. A couple years ago, when the trend first began to emerge, I whipped out a strand of African vinyl beads I had stashed in my bead drawer and decided to create my own version of this look, grouping together the slim disk beads into color…
DIY Adjustable Beaded Word Bracelets
Long before my obsessions with tie dye and friendship bracelets and pom poms, there was beading. My lifelong craft love. (I suspect every crafter has one!) Along with tie dye, beading made a MAJOR comeback this summer! Wrists everywhere have been adorned with colorful creations featuring beads of all sorts — but of all the bright kitschy baubles, disk beads, letter beads, and pearls have stood out to me as…