A bit of beading

Or should that be crocheting?.....

A crochet wire beaded necklace

This time in black wire with pink & blue beads.

You may remember that I made a few of these necklaces last Xmas as pressies for the girlies in the family. Well they seemed to go down well & my SIL wears hers on a regular basis :-) Nice to know that your work is appreciated :-)

She was wearing it when visiting a family friend who unfortunately has MS. She loved it & asked where she'd got it & I was texted to see if she could commission one with pink & blue beads.

this is the result

think the colours asked for work well together :-)

I made a box for it & lined it with the pink tissue which sets it off nicely.

And decorated the top of the box 

Will put it in the post tomorrow.

Maddy & Rachel play!

Maddy & I actually had a crafty play in her craft room the other day & made this cute box from the instructions on here We had a lovely afternoon. It makes a change for us to actually do some crafting together for ourselves rather than for Sticky Fixers craft club :-)




Yesterday I used my new sizzix build a flower die that I bought at the Papercraft Fair at Harrogate on Saturday & used it to decorate the top of this cute box.




The faux 'ribbon' was made using Maddy's Martha Stewart punch, slightly offset on one side. I really want/need some of these gorgeous edging punches :-)

Edited to say that I forgot to say that one of the measurements on the box plan I had to revise - the 9 3/4 should be 9 1/2