Tahoma Beadworks & Photography: jar snow globes

December 8, 2014

Making Time to Craft

Such a busy time of the year! No matter how prepared and organized I am, it still seems to be rather frenetic. Not sure why; I don't have near the people to buy gifts for anymore. Hardly anything to ship out. I do send lots of cards but I don't have the time to hand make them and the list of 'homemade cardworthy' people has grown to epic proportions. I used to do 15-20, but with everyone on FB now I run the risk of hurting feelings if I send to one person who publicly thanks me and other people feel slighted that I didn't deem them homemade cardworthy when they see it. So my solution has been, unfortunately, to not do it anymore.

But I've still made the time to do some crafts in between decorating, dealing with a sick dog last week, errands that never seem to end and preparing for my other craft show at the Sandwich Legion.

I have been wanting to try floss wrapped bangle bracelets with jump rings and charms. Rather than using a solid colour, I broke out the variegated floss. I ended up replacing the seahorse with a 3rd turtle and sending it to a cousin's daughter, who has 3 turtles.

As usual, the project took way more time than I'd expected. Wrapping alone took over 2 hours, close to 3. And then I remembered how much I really hate working with jumprings.

I'd like to keep the purple one but sadly bangles have always been way too big for my hands/wrists and they slide off easily. The red and black one was done with 2 skeins of floss in those colours and wow what a pain it was to wrap!

I realized I never did post the pics of the 2 jar snowglobes that I was able to get to seal and not leak. This one got a little cloudy because the paint has probably washed off a bit. It's hard to tell but it's a snowman with a big hat and holding a pole with a hanging lantern.

I really like this one with the white tree and lamppost.

Then during my decorating spree, I unearthed some balls that I forgot I had. I got those plain jewel tone balls many years ago at Costco and then the following year they came out with the same balls, with gold glitter designs and I started to use them instead. I also got those smaller glittery balls a couple years ago for a potential project that I don't even remember now. So I spent some time tying more fishing line to them to make another ball chandelier.