Design Diary

Thanks to LaReeca Rucker of Culture Bubble for featuring my Small Book Jewelry line on her blog.

The Culture Bubble follows some of the hot trends in fashion, film, technology, and music. Be sure to check it out!

This cracks me up…I’ve always loved those googly eyes. Check out the tutorial on how to make this from Alexa at The Swell Life.

Via Craftzine blog.

Remember Shrinky-Dinks? That plastic stuff that you colored on and then shrunk down by sticking it in the oven? I’ve been seeing a quite a bit of shrinky jewelry lately, but these pieces by Broken Fingers Art have really caught my eye…how could they not?

Broken Fingers apparently gets such vibrant colors by using shrink plastic, Prismacolor pencils, a Sharpie, and quite a bit of elbow grease…

Need a great place to store all of your jewelry? Check out this lovely George Nelson Inspired Jewelry Case by Angie Johnson. You can find the instructions to make your own version on the Design*Sponge blog.

Leave it to Martha Stewart to come up with some pretty fabulous storage ideas for jewelry. Straight from Martha’s style magazine, Blueprint, you can check out some great ways to store your jewelry pieces while putting them on display at the same time. All you’ll need is some orphaned tea cups, tree branches and some shadow boxes and you’ll be golden!

Check it out here

Thanks to Grace Bonney at Design*Sponge for this link.

I’ve been complaining for the past couple months that I hadn’t had time to knit anything for a long time. I think the last things I knitted were baby blankets for my nephew and my first godson. They both just turned four last June and November :(. I’ve even stopped getting issues of Vogue Knitting just to keep from feeling so guilty.

Well, I think I’ll be able to squeeze this knitting project in. The instructions on how to make these really cute knit bangles are over at the See Me Knit blog. I think the author said that someone saw a cashmere set knitted bangles in a French store for about $180?

Looks like I can tackle these without too much time investment. I’ll have to warm up the needles and give them a try. If there are any knitters here on the blog, you can check out the instructions here:
http://mimsie.typepad.com/knitting/2007/07/so-a-few-days-a.html