'Leaves' Bracelet

Oops, Pinterest did it again. I found, yet another, bracelet on Pinterest. 

Link

Friendship bracelets were the beginning for me. 

(Story Time. To find out about this bracelet, scroll until you see 'End Story Time')

Somehow or another, I discovered friendship bracelets on the Internet. Whatever website I was looking at said you should use embroidery floss. I asked my Mom if our local craft store would have it. She said she had some from when she did cross-stitch. Low and behold, she comes up with a literal and whole treasure chest of vintage embroidery floss. 

It was fate.

Not long after, my friends were trying to think of a fundraiser for Tsunami victims in Japan. I suggested friendship bracelets. I learned how to make new bracelet patterns and developed something of a reputation as a bracelet maker, so much so, people thought it weird if I wasn't working on one.

There have been times were my fingers, my back, and my neck were so sore and I was so sick of looking at and working with my string, I wouldn't make a bracelet for months. Nonetheless, I always picked it back up again. 

Now, I'm trying to make something like a business selling my bracelets and other jewelry items.

And here I am.

(End Story Time.)

Here is my version of the bracelet.

Unlike most any other project that I have gotten off Pinterest, I followed this one to a T. 

I think I like the overall design but, I'm not crazy about the colors I chose.

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A New Obsession

I have discovered a new and fantastic way to make friendship bracelets. It's called kumihimo. I don;t know the history or anything like that but I know it's a lot easier than the traditional way.

To make a kumihimo bracelet, you first need a wheel, like the one below.

You can go to the site printed on the wheel, a.k.a. here, to make you're own wheel. If you print one, I would suggest gluing the paper to some cardboard to strengthen it.

The same website where you can print the wheel also has patterns and tutorials to make all styles.

I have tried a few patterns and have fell in love with one in particular.

I've made it so many different colors and lengths, it could very be classified as an obsession. Below are some of my color combos.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.

Pizza Monkey Bread

Recipes and cooking are not exactly my thing but, it is something I have done and you can do yourself. 

Recipe

Believe or not, I didn't get this off Pinterest. I put it there so my Mom could see and consider putting on the Menu that week. I actually got it off of Tums' Facebook Page. 

I generally followed the recipe. We didn't have any pepperoni (probably a good thing) so I used some chunks of cooked chicken. I didn't have any garlic cloves either so I used melted butter and garlic salt. It didn't see to add any flavor to me but I may have not used enough. 

I also used a wheat crust which gave it a definitely not pizza crust flavor that I wouldn't recommend if you wanted a real pizza taste. 

There was enough for myself, my older, very hungry, brother, and my mother, and some leftovers. Granted, my brother loved it so much he probably would've eaten the whole thing. He was so excited and loved it so much it was almost hilarious. 

Overall, I think it's a good recipe and can certainly be adapted to many different tastes. I dipped some of mine in Ranch dressing as is my taste. I could also see using alfredo for dipping sauce and maybe filling the dough with spinach, artichoke, and chicken. The possibilities really are endless.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope I didn't just make you starve. ;)

My New Board

As I am sure you have noticed, I get a lot of my projects off Pinterest. When writing posts, I often have to sift through the endless pins on my Crafts to Do board to find the original links for the projects. After doing this a few times, I thought, 'Why don't I just go through all my pins at one time and put them on a board of projects that I've completed?'

So I did. I've created this Finished Projects board with that idea in mind. You'll see posts about most, if not all, of these projects at some point or another.

If you want to try one of the projects and I haven't posted on it yet, feel free to leave a comment on the pin or leave a comment on this blog.

*If I could ask just a small favor, if you could like, follow, etc. my boards and pins when you visit them, I would greatly appreciate it.*

Thanks and have a great day everybody.

Another Finished Pinterest Project

You may remember this Work In Progress that I posted about forever ago. (Sorry, again)

It is now no longer in Progress but a Finished Project, has been for a long time actually.

Once I picked out all the color beads I needed, the weaving went pretty quickly. A large needle is definitely helpful seeing as how the threading material hardly ever does what you want it to by itself.

I'm not sure they'll be as lucrative as my Friendship Bracelets but, who knows? If nothing else, it will probably lead to something that is.

An Apology

Oh my goodness, I cannot I believe I only posted once in the entire month of September AND it's almost been a month since then. I am mortified. 

I promise I have some posts coming up with my spoils from Pinterest other fun stuff. 

Thanks to everyone who still stops by. I'll try not to let you down again.