Sj Designs Jewelry
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Inspiration for the March 2024 Honey Do List
Sunday, March 3, 2024
February 2024 Honey Do List
Here's this month's inspiration and what Eric had to say about it:
There's a tiny bit of irony that Eric chose this frosty picture as our February inspiration considering how bi-polar our weather has been here! Who would have expected 6.5" of snow on Valentine's Day and then days in the 50's within the week?! Crazy! In keeping with the weather, my designs aren't exactly icy either... but yet somehow feel appropriate.
First up, a necklace featuring a pendant from Inviciti. Both the whitewashed colors and floral burst design of the focal reminded me of the photo. I paired it with the last of a strand of moonstone rounds left over from a special order a few years ago. The soft, pearly colors playing nicely off the more rustic pendant. Copper plated chain and findings complete the design.
Now it's your turn! Please add links to/photos of your own creations below. I love seeing what everyone else is making too. Not ready yet? No problem, I'll leave the link up open until late next month. Check back on Monday to see what Eric has in store for us next!
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Inspiration for the February 2024 Honey Do List
2024 marks the ninth year that my husband Eric has been giving me a design challenge each month to get me out of my comfort zone and to help clear out my bead stash... The Honey Do List! I know that I'm not the only one who loves a good design challenge, so I'm hoping folks will continue to play along with us! Thanks to all of you who have participated over the years... it means a lot to both of us!
Here's this month's inspiration and what Eric had to say about it:
Monday, January 29, 2024
January 2024 Honey Do List
2024 marks the ninth year that my husband Eric has been giving me a design challenge each month to get me out of my comfort zone and to help clear out my bead stash... The Honey Do List! I know that I'm not the only one who loves a good design challenge, so I'm hoping folks will continue to play along with us! Thanks to all of you who have participated over the years... it means a lot to both of us!
Here's this month's inspiration and what Eric had to say about it:
Well, there you have it! Considering I was in the throes of Valentine's Day gift creating, I'm pretty happy that I was able to make four things this month. Now it's your turn! Please add links to/photos of your own creations below. I love seeing what everyone else is making too. Not ready yet? No problem, I'll leave the link up open until late next month. Check back on February 1st to see what Eric has in store for us next! I know he's got tons of new photos he's been going through.
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Inspiration for the January 2024 Honey Do List
Happy New Year my beady friends! Sorry for the delay but there's been a lot going on around here with the holidays and recovering from them. Can y'all believe that it's 2024?? Where does the time go?
2024 marks the ninth year that my husband Eric has been giving me a design challenge each month to get me out of my comfort zone and to help clear out my bead stash... The Honey Do List! I know that I'm not the only one who loves a good design challenge, so I'm hoping folks will continue to play along with us! Thanks to all of you who have participated over the years... it means a lot to both of us!
Here's this month's inspiration and what Eric had to say about it:
Wednesday, December 27, 2023
December 2023 Honey Do List
2023 marks the eighth year that my husband Eric has been giving me a design challenge each month to get me out of my comfort zone and to help clear out my bead stash... The Honey Do List! (Y'all, time really does fly!!) I know that I'm not the only one who loves a good design challenge, so I'm hoping folks will continue to play along with us!
Here's this month's inspiration and what Eric had to say about it:
On our recent bead tour of the Czech Republic we visited a Christmas ornament factory. While this wasn't completely bead-related, it was all hand made glass. I think all of us really enjoyed learning the process and seeing it done. This picture is from the step after the glass was dipped in colored glazes and left to dry before the next step. You have all sorts of shapes and colors to work with here!
It was so interesting to see how these glass ornaments have been made for over a hundred years! So many cool shapes and lovely colors! For this month's Honey Do List I went in a few different directions... I made a few different Christmas ornaments but I also played with some tiny Christmas ornaments that I bought at the Rautis factory and tour.
For the last several years I've made batches of salt water etched Christmas ornaments. Here are a few of this year's:
For us there's a tradition of Eric getting an ornament every year. When he was a kid he got one each year from his grandmother. She's been gone a long time but I continue the tradition. This year, I made Eric a very special ornament... I present Krampus!! I bought the fantastic focal by Diane Hawkey last year but it was too late to get something made in time for the holiday so I saved it for this year.
As I know that Eric's intention wasn't just for me to make ornaments that I was going to make anyway... I did grab a collection of mini ornaments that I bought during our trip to turn into earrings. I only got two pairs made with everything that's been going on the last few weeks, but that's better than nothing!
Now it's your turn! Please add links to/photos of your own creations below. I love seeing what everyone else is making too. Not ready yet? No problem, I'll leave the link up open until late next month. Check back on January 1st to see what Eric has in store for us next! I know he's got tons of new photos he's been going through.
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Inspiration for the December 2023 Honey Do List
2023 marks the eighth year that my husband Eric has been giving me a design challenge each month to get me out of my comfort zone and to help clear out my bead stash... The Honey Do List! (Y'all, time really does fly!!) I know that I'm not the only one who loves a good design challenge, so I'm hoping folks will continue to play along with us!
Here's this month's inspiration and what Eric had to say about it:
On our recent bead tour of the Czech Republic we visited a Christmas ornament factory. While this wasn't completely bead-related, it was all hand made glass. I think all of us really enjoyed learning the process and seeing it done. This picture is from the step after the glass was dipped in colored glazes and left to dry before the next step. You have all sorts of shapes and colors to work with here!
The reveal date will be Wednesday, December 27th. To make it super easy for you to participate and share your creations, I'll set up an Inlinkz link up so folks can add their blogs or links as they are ready. Just stop by my blog starting on December 27th and join the fun! I'll leave the link up open for a while... so you have plenty of time to add your links. No blog? No worries! Feel free to send me a picture of your creation and some brief comments and I'll happily share in my blog post. You can reach me at sjdesignsjewelry@gmail.com The more the merrier, so I hope you'll play along with me this month!