Leather Name Cuff

One of my daughter's friends was about to have her birthday and she wanted me to make something for her. The challenge was that she is pretty much a tomboy who will only add a little splash of girlie from time to time. After digging through my "to work on pile" (which is way to big by the way) I came across the supplies I had gotten to make a cuff for my son and the light bulb came on. What I used for this one was a leather cuff or bracelet with the snap I love these I get them at Hobby Lobby, also the leather clear leather finish, needles, and I used a cord necklace for my sewing material.  In the scrapbook sections I got the metal letter charms, there was already a hole in the top so hubby drilled one on the bottom for me. I also had some enamel paint on hand that I used.


I first spelled out her name and laid it on the cuff to figure out my spacing, then I took my piercing tool and made two holes for each letter in the cuff. Next I used a tooth pick to add the enamel paint in the letter so that it would pop.

 After they were dry I cut one of the cord strands off of the necklace and threaded it onto the needle, I have to say it took some work to get the needle through the leather because of the cord, it made it a bit thick at the eye, but that's what hubby's are for right! I sewed on each letter started underneath the metal piece so that I could cut and tie each one off and it would be hidden it gave them a very clean look. After that we decided that it could use a little something else so I got my Irock out and we added the orange crystals to it. Micalee loved it and has been wearing it daily. She really likes how the leather is now starting to age some and darken up. I guess I really need to get to making the one for son LOL.

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Cork Board Necklace Holder

Miranda has so many necklaces now that it is getting really hard to store them she is wanting one of those large stand up jewelry boxes like I have but right now that isn't possible, plus she likes to be able to see them out so that she can choose what she wants quickly. So this is what I came up with for her.

What I uses is two packages of 4 pieces of 6x6 cork board, they are kind of thin so I glued two pieces together so that the push pins didn't stick out to much in the back, which made me end up with 4 boards, a package of fun colored super large push pins, and four bright paint colors. I painted each one a different fun color and then added the push pins in two staggered rows that way the necklaces don't hang on top of each other, the push pins stick out just a bit in the back but this is nice because they stick a just a little into the wall for some extra hold. It really helped when we were trying to figure out the placement they just stayed where we put them, then we used foam tape to put them up on her wall to make sure that they could handle the weight of all her stuff. We are loving the way they came out so much that I think I am going to make one for my bathroom for the necklaces that I tend to wear more often.

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Margo