Craft challenge - Project 1: Beaded Bracelet

I have a beaded bracelet that "not me" broke. If you have any children in your house, you've probably met "not me". Sometimes she's accompanied by her friends "wasn't me" and "I don't know". Somehow, "not me" climbed up on the counter and got my bracelet out of the bowl it was oh-so pleasantly lying in and broke the string.  But at least "not me" saved most of my beads.  I've been sadly looking at my broken-string-lost-bead bracelet for a few weeks now.  Restringing the beads started off my craft month.

Granted, it may not be the most creativity-required project, but it did require some crafty effort.  I bought elastic beading string and some beads that matched (on sale at that!) - they aren't the exact same size, so I mixed them in with the others.  I used a beading wire from my stash of supplies to string the elastic then tied it to chain section of beads.  There is still a long string hanging off because I'm wondering if I should glue the knot or will it hold when I cut it?

In the meantime - here's my project for today...

      

 

Ta-da - my bracelet's as good as new!

March is National Craft Month

I have no idea who designates such things, but crafts is the thing for March.  And since I like to think of myself as a pretty crafty person, why not just jump in with a challenge that will further reduce my amount of sleep per day?

There's a long list of crafts-to-do in my head - and as my friends who I mentioned this to reminded/corrected me - there's quite a bit of half-done projects in my house.  Therefore, I am declaring for myself that March is Finish-Some-Crafts Month.  My challenge to myself - and anyone who would like to join me - is to complete some of the half-done projects laying around and maybe even get to some new ones I'd like to try.  (I dare not make a list because it may seem that I'm a highly distractable person that spends way to much at craft shops and yarn stores, I'll let that become more apparent as the month goes on.)

I've gotten a jump start by finally making and ordering a digital photo album from our family vacation last summer.  Its not really all the pictures, let's just say, Kodak has a limit to the number of pages you can put in a book so that's where I stopped.  And, as invited by a friend, I joined Pinterest for further inspiration (but I haven't figured out how to pin anything yet).

Now, let me think what my first project will be.....