Christmas decorations 2013 - the unveiling

Right, so it IS beginning to feel a lot like Christmas. 
Here is the final result of this year's decorations:

This is the result of some of the lovely ideas I found on the internet and the materials that I had at hand. You can see some of the inspiration on my Christmas board on pinterest here. 

And this is how the Christmas tree looks like:

Do you like it?
What about your Christmas decorations this year? Show us!

You can see the post that started it all here & the 2nd & final clue here.

Christmas decorations 2013 - 2nd AND final clue

Right, so this is the 2nd AND final clue before it's all  reveled:

You can read the post that started it all here.
You can see the final result here.  

Christmas decorations 2013 - clue

I have refused to use the "X" word for weeks now... until today. But since it's the 1st of December, I think I'll give in. Here is a clue of my Christmas decorations project this year.

Do you want to see more of it?

I promise not to drag it as much as my previous "guess what is it" saga!


See clue # 2 here. 
See the final result here. 

Bead by bead - rings

OK, so I haven't posted for a while - shame on me! That doesn't mean that I haven't been crafting, I just haven't been posting. My apologies for that. 

I'll try to catch up with the "unreported" crafts as quickly as possible...

This one is about beading and it all started when a friend of mine gave me a bag full of beads that she wasn't going to use. So I started to look for projects. I came across a blog ingeniously called My daily bead, which has "Jewelry Making Ideas and Tutorials". 

So I chose a basic one, a Christmas one. 

This is the blog's photo:

And this is my 1st attempt:

Bar the difference in colouring & the lack of expertise, it ain't bad, baby!

Then I improvised with the colours I had, so an Irish one and a Pinky one followed the Christmassy one:



So difficult to choose which one to wear... I'll wear all 3 at the same time! Why not?





And they I tried these chunkier beads for a.... chunkier finish. This is my favourite one, I actually wear all the time:

 

And these are other combinations that I made:



Do you like them?
They are not difficult to make, honest. Give it a go!