DIY Charm Bracelet
Make your own Pandora or Trollbead bracelet Charm bead bracelet If you love the Danish style charm bead bracelets such as Trollbeads - Trollbeads or Pandora bracelets - Pandora, but can't find them or wince at the price? Don't. Make your own charm bracelet....
More Earrings
Make easy earrings What you need to make these earrings Every now and again, I sit on the internet and window-shop the on-line sites. It's hard not to lust after the gorgeous high end designer stuff on offer. Beautiful is always beautiful. No amount of convincing...
Ethnic Inspired Bracelet made from Safety Pins
How to make a safety pin bracelet Add beads to safety pins I am ever alert for new ways to create apparel and accessories for this DIY fashion blog. Luckily my relatives and friends know that and they often feed me new ideas. We have relatives staying with us from the...
How to Make a Flower or Animal Shape Brooch
Laminate image brooch Laminated flower picture, brooch pin and glue I am loving all these fruit and animal forms popping up on T-shirts and in fabric designs. They give a fun feel to fashion. The point of this blog is always to try and re-use an existing wardrobe but...
Flower Button Bracelet
Make a rope bracelet with a flower button Flower button bracelet This idea I saw on a friend of mine. She had an exquisite flower shaped button on the most beautiful silk thread. I saw her a few weeks ago and she said the thread had perished. Seeing her reminded of...
Charm Wrap Bracelet
How to make an adjustable rope bracelet Charm wrap bracelet These wrap bracelets are everywhere right now. And they are the easiest to make. The hardest part is trying to tie it on your wrist with one hand. They usually come in leather or a pretty print ribbon....
Stone Rings
Semi precious stone rings Stone rings This idea is NOT mine. And usually I can't remember where I saw an idea that inspired me. In this instance I can. The reason is because it comes from one of my favorite DIY fashion bloggers. Her blog is called A Pair and a Spare....
Pin Stud Earrings
How to make earrings from glass pins Glass head pins as stud earrings Not sure how I came upon the idea to use glass head pins as stud earrings. But it's a dead easy way to get a small coloured pair of stud earrings. In the picture my niece is wearing a pair of white...
Change a Watch Strap
New strap gives new life to old watch Bright green watch strap The colour block trend is huge right now. I'm a bit of a coward when it comes to "out there" style. Much as I admire fashion risks that some people take, I am unable to follow where the fashion forward...
How to Make a Friendship Bracelet
Friendship bracelet tutorial How to make a friendship bracelet I am lucky to have great relatives. One niece is a follower of this blog and another niece showed me how to make the really cute friendship bracelet featured in this post. Lucky me! The completed...
Beaded Bracelets
Easy beaded bracelet tutorial Beaded bracelets I have gone bracelet mad. But then so has the rest of the world. I've been mixing up beaded bracelets with plastic ones as well as different types of friendship or string bracelets. Am loving the effect of...
Out of Africa Earrings
Isabel Marant inpsired earrings What you need to make these earrings Just got back home around 40 hours ago from an epic overland tour of 4 southern African countries. I missed my blog but hey, I wasn't going to let an opportunity like that pass me by. And since it...
Earrings
How to make bead earrings Components to make earrings My trips out to the fashion retailers have become more of a source of inspiration for me than actual shopping trips. There are some things that are not so easy to make. I'm not going to lie, I don't think I would...
Fabric Bangle
Ribbon covered bracelet Fabric wrapped bangle I really wish I could remember where I first saw this idea. I can't claim credit for it. But I love it. Like many people I did rather over invest in bangles the last year or two. I got a lot of them. This cute idea...
Plaited Rope Necklace
How to make a rope necklace Plaited rope necklace I am loving the rope and thread jewellery that is around at the moment. There are a few posts in my blog now with items made from rope, wool and thread. The inspiration for this was a similar necklace a friend was...
Bead Bracelet
How to make a beaded rope bracelet Bead bracelet This is a dead easy way to make a bracelet. I used a fairly strong waxed thread, one small button and glass beads. You need to make a loop at the one end just big enough for the button to fit through. Not too big that...
Cascading Chain Necklace
How to make a multi chain necklace Cascading chain necklace I have made one of these cascading chain necklaces before. The instructions and a picture of a previous one are in this post - cascading chain necklace. This particular version uses plain, fine chain whereas...
Multi-Strand Rope Bangle
Rope bracelet Multi-strand rope bangle I wear the rope bangles I made in an older post nearly every day - rope bracelet. So when I saw this idea in a shop, I knew I had to try to make something similar. I don't buy nearly as much as I used to and I use the retail...
Single Chain Earrings
How to make chain drop earrings Single chain earring Sometimes, especially when I have just logged onto a blog with amazing photos, I am tempted to have more steps in my DIY fashion ideas or upgrade my camera for something a hellava lot fancier. What stops me is when...
Shell Jewelry
Shell jewelry tutorial Shell jewelry This project is all my daughter's idea. She had a collection of shells she picked up over the years. She decided to make jewelry out of them. I got this set from her as a gift. She gently filed small holes in the shells and then...