Three things.

[aishason.livejournal.com]

Hello!

So recently, I was looking through my InStyle magazine and fell in love with a few items. I went to look at the website that showed them and saw a necklace that I fell in love with that as well! However, $150 is too much for my wallet to handle on just a necklace, so I made it! It cost right about $20.I'm going to be making a belt I saw as well, but that will take a little longer.



Here is the original necklace:

And here is my version:

Without flash:

With flash (shows details and thine shine of the beads better):

Beads this big that were pretty enough and at a decent price were so incredibly hard to find! I searched all over the internet and went to two different bead stores before I found something.




My very first ever gingerbread house!
Front:

Back:





And while I'm here, some help on a sewing project?
I would love, love, love, love, love to own a dress like this. Thing is, I have NO IDEA how to make it and I can't find a pattern that is in-print. I've looked through Simplicity, McCalls, Burda, everything I can find.

The picture doesn't show it so well, but it has an asymettrical neckline. So what I'm asking, I guess, is does anyone either A)know of a pattern, or B)know how to make the asymmetrical neckline. The neckline is all I'm really going for here.


Thanks in advance!