The silver wire chain, once through the smallest drawplate hole, is small enough for a Pandora-style glass bead!
This is another post that I started ages ago, saved as a draft… but forgot to post!
After feeling a lot more comfortable with Viking Knit (Trichinopoly) after a few successful projects in stainless steel and copper wire, I decided to buy some silver wire. (Almost twice the price.)
Little glittery bird inside a handmade rustic wire birdcage
What is it that fascinates me about bird cages? I don’t mean actual bird cages, but rather the iconography of them; the metaphor. I don’t even love birds. (I like birds well enough, but I’m a dog-as-a-pet-person, not a bird-as-a-pet-person… ifyaknowwhatImean.)
Open birdcage with soaps…
When decorating my bathroom, I selected bird cages to decorate with. There are mini bird cages holding soaps, bird cages holding make up, and bird cages perched (get it?) on the very top of my shelf too.
The bird cages in my bathroom started their lives in a craft supply store discount bin (and later I saw them at the old Inglewood Suzie Q Beads too, as part of their decorating scheme) and then they were spray painted silver, followed by a dusting of copper spray paint. The result is something that feels vintage rather than metallic – like something that has started to tarnish rather than something new and shiny. The copper warms up the silver too, which I really like.
Chocolate-mint DIY lip balm
While making the beard balm and beard oil lately, I figured I’d make up a few tubes of lip balm while I was at it.. (since the bases use many of the same ingredients).
I bought a dozen lip balm containers from a local supplier (I’ve heard they’re seriously overpriced though, so I’m not going to link them here… if I want to do this again and it’s NOT on a whim or tight deadline, I’ll likely order them online or find a more affordable supplier) so I didn’t want to make a LOT… just enough to fill up the containers I had.
Three oil blend beard oil
While out shopping with a friend, he started checking out some beard balm and beard oil. He didn’t pick any up, but when his birthday rolled around, I bought him something, and wanted to make him some beard oil to gift him as well.
Looking up recipes online had a LOT of suggestions. Some suggested single carrier oils mixed with single essential oils, some had single carrier oils with a blend of essential oils, and others had blended carrier oils with single or blended essential oils.
Screen printing with the Heidi Swapp kit
I LOVE a good craft kit – something where pretty much all of the materials to get started are included so I can try something out with a low commitment.
I did some screen printing in school, and LOVED it – but it is pretty involved with a number of tools needed, so when I saw the Heidi Swapp screen printing kit at Michael’s I thought I’d give it a whirl.
Dawn's Dress Diary 