Rhinestone & Ball-Chain Wrap Bracelet

  Well, today was absolutely gorgeous, with warm-enough weather.  Which I must say is fantastic!

  For the past few days, I wore this adorable little bracelet, and it's so much fun.  The bracelet consists of a small ball-chain (enough to wrap three times around my wrist), a decent amount of embroidery floss, and a rhinestone chain (long enough to wrap around my wrist once).  As always, my trusty super glue, wire cutters, and scissors were part of my main supplies.

 

(I forgot to take off my hair-tie, so don't get confused!)

  So, if your interested in making one of these little bracelets, here are some basic instructions:

1) measure three pieces of embroidery floss (just a little longer than your rhinestone chain) and braid them together, knotting both ends.

2) cut ANOTHER piece of embroidery floss (twice as long as your braid) and tie it to one of the knots.

3) wrap the piece of embroidery floss around the braid and in-between each rhinestone.  Finish wrapping entire length of braid and rhinestone chain together.

4) glue both ends of the braid and string to the ends of the rhinestone chain.  Let dry, cut off excess.

5) use the connecting ends of the rhinestone chain to fasten the colorful-rhinestone chain to your ball-chain. 

6) wrap around your wrist three times, and add those cute friend ship bracelets!

  Good luck!  I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I do!

The Friendship Bracelts

  Well, today its a decent 70 degree's outside, and I'm inside.  Let me justify; it's overcast and windy.  I'm a little cold. 

  So, after spending a decent amount of time on Pinterest (both today and yesterday) I sat down with all the supplies to make some of those adorable friendship bracelets.  With Embroidery Floss, Buttons, a couple Chain Bracelets, Scissors, and my trusty Super-Glue; I was set.  After maybe half an hour, I figured out the importance of using lengthy Embroider Floss.  So what did I do?  I started again on a different bracelet.  Then another, then another, and probably a few more.  After learning how to make friendship bracelets when I was twelve, I never really forgot how, but it's been quite a while.  So I dug around for old bracelets and found half a dozen.  SCORE!  That's when I decided to be finished, with my cramped fingers and more bracelets than I thought I had. 

  Here are my two cents:  Long enough string, and tight knots!

  With friendship bracelets and their huge popularity, it's so nice to know how to make them.  There are plenty of Youtube videos and diagrams on the World-Wide-Web for anybody.  Good Luck!

~Big thanks to Christine Gierer for her super helpful videos!  She has PLENTY of these fabulous friendship bracelet tutorials, and does a great job at howtomakejewelry.com