Graduation Gift - SCRABBLE Jewelry

Graduation time is upon us!  High school, college, kindergarten...whatever the stepping stone...always a celebration.

My nephew is graduating from college in two weeks.  Hard to believe.  We are looking forward to attending the ceremony.  My two nieces are continuing their college education with a couple more years to go.  I'm always so proud of their hard work.  It has not been an easy journey for all of them, but they stuck with it.  Hats off to them.

In honor of this special time of year, we have created a unique graduation gift - actually a few different styles.  One can even be a personalized graduation gift if desired.

Here they are:

Graduation Scrabble Bracelet

Personalized Graduation Gift Necklace

Graduation Scrabble Bracelet

Graduation Scrabble Bracelet

Congratulations to all 2014 Graduates!

Shakespeare Quotes, Wassily Kandinsky and Beach Bracelets!

It's been a great couple of weeks!  Even though business has picked up again, I was still able to create quite a few new Scrabble bracelets!  That always makes a good week!


Here are four of our new Scrabble bracelets...

Shakespeare Quote Bracelet.  Quote bracelets are always popular and I enjoy making them.  They take more time because the tiles are made differently from our normal image files, but they generally turn out well and people seem to like them.

SHAKESPEARE QUOTE BRACELET

Shakespeare Quotes

Shakespeare Quotes

Shakespeare Quotes

Wassily Kandinsky Bracelet.  Considered the father of abstract art and a modernist.  He was originally from Russia, but spent the latter part of his life in France.  His art makes fabulous bracelets, but I found it was more challenging than some of the bracelets to figure out which beads to use.  You wouldn't think it would be an issue with all the colors he used, but with the nature of the art, it was really east to overwhelm the bracelet with the beads.  In the end, I opted for a nice smooth round black bead with silver spacers.  Nice!

WASSILY KANDINSKY BRACELET

Wassily Kandinsky Bracelet

Wassily Kandinsky Bracelet

Wassily Kandinsky Bracelet

Two Beach Bracelets.  We had fun creating these two beach bracelets.  One with vintage art of different beach scenes the other of seashells from the seashore!  So many fond memories of the ocean beaches!

SHELL BEACH BRACELET

Shell Bracelet

Shell Bracelet

VINTAGE BEACH SCENES BRACELET

Beach Bracelet

Beach Bracelet

More next time....

Anne of Green Gables

Because I love Anne of Green Gables and all her wonderful words (written of course by Lucy Maud Montgomery), we have created several Anne of Green Gables Scrabble items.

I was fortunate to be able to visit Lucy Maud Montgomery's home site and the Anne of Green Gables Museum on Prince Edward Island a few years back.  My mother was out visiting me when I lived in Ohio, and we took a magical trip up through Concord, Massachusetts visiting Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House and Ralph Waldo Emerson's House, as well as others.  Then, we headed north into Canada and up to P.E.I. - a dream come true for me.

Following are links to the Anne of Green Gables Museum on Prince Edward Island, as well as the home site where Lucy Maud Montgomery lived with her grandparents from 1876 - 1911.  There isn't much left at the home site, but it is still worth the visit!  There are placards that describe places around the property and a little gift shop.  Anyone familiar with Anne of Green Gables, will be able to walk around the property getting goosebumps seeing what she saw.

Museum link: http://www.annemuseum.com/index.php

This is a photo I took on our visit to Green Gable Museum on Prince Edward Island

Lucy Maud Montgomery Home Site Cavendish: http://www.peisland.com/lmm/index.shtml

Lucy Maud Montgomery Home Site

Here are some of the Anne of Green Gables Jewelry items we have created:

Anne of Green Gables "Kindred" Scrabble Bracelet

Anne of Green Gables - Prince Edward Island Scrabble Bracelet

Anne of Green Gables Scrabble Bracelet

Anne of Green Gables Scrabble Pendant

Anne of Green Gables Scrabble Pendant

For those who haven't had the opportunity to read the Anne of Green Gables books or watch the movies, here are a couple of links to them if you'd like to check them out.

Next time...some of our new bracelets!

 

UPCYCLED JEWELRY / Boston Terrier Domino Bracelet

We started to make a new type of upcycled jewelry.  It's always something to go through an initial development phase.  Creating and trying different things.  We tried different seals, different adhesives and in the end we went with the one that takes longer to make, but the final result is so much better.

So...what is this new piece that we have created?  It's a fabulous chunky bracelet made out of upcycled dominoes!  The bracelet we just released is a Boston Terrier bracelet.  It has different Boston Terrier vintage images on it - six to be exact.  The color is bright and vivid.  We are pleased.

We have only the one at this time, but now that this one turned out so well, we plan on making more.  Let's see...what should be next?  We'll have to think about that.  Maybe we could make a couple.  We'll see how it goes.

For now, here is the new Boston Terrier upcycled domino bracelet!

Boston Terrier Upcycled Domino Bracelet

Boston Terrier Bracelet

Boston Terrier Bracelet