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swallow earrings
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swallow earrings!

So I bought a whole lot of beads and findings.


Here's some stuff I made-



Some polyclay flower beads I made into earrings. They look like they belong on a cake, yum.



Silver plated drops and a wooden disk. I kind of stole this idea from a pair of plastic and metal walmart earrings I have.



I got a big assortment of gold and silver plated findings. In it were these pretty gold plate feathers.



I didn't think these charms really needed anything else.



These teardrops with swallows are the bomb. I got these gold antiqued ones, and some copper ones. I am upset they didn't come in silver plate.



Made from glass beads and glass adorable glass mushroom beads!





Last but not least I cleaned out my old jeans that are too big for me. Yes too big, so nice not to have to get rid of them because they are too small for once. So I added some patches and some heart appliques. I left the edges of the appliques raw and did some decorative stitching. They were already petite, but I made them a little shorter. Now they're kind of capris (well not on me though). A hint for anyone who wants to shorten jeans and have them not look shortened- After I hem jeans I steam iron them really crisp, then take my dremel with a diamond grinding bit and go over the bottoms. Then they look worn on the bottom, like they used to before they were shortened.