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Announcing New Christmas Jewelry and Our 2019 Annual Tree Ornament
Dec
Whether You Have Been Naughty or Nice – You Don’t Need to Check Twice – To Make Some New Jewelry This Holiday Season
Coming up with neat, new Christmas stuff is an annual tradition here at HomeStrung. We always try to give you a new tree decoration design and at least one new holiday earring project you can make to wear or give away.
We’ve got a new ornament that will look perfect on your tree, and we have a new earring, using a spectacular new bead we found that was just crying out to be used in a Christmas design. All things considered, we had our new designs. But Debby just couldn’t let well enough alone. She started working on a second earring.
The Christmas Flower that Grew into a Wearable Garden
The extra, new earring is a cute little beaded poinsettia, perfect for Christmas (especially if you read the legend of the poinsettia flower that goes with it). She finished it up, way too quickly, and then just kept on going, adding little poinsettias to the original flower, until she had turned that earring into a bracelet.
Well, the project was supposed to be an earring, so she made a couple more earrings to replace the one earring that turned into a bracelet, They looked pretty good with the new bracelet. But, looking at the two earrings, side by side, she started to think.
Now when Debby starts to think it is always a little scary but it is when amazing things can happen. (Steve, on the other hand, is forbidden to think without adult supervision, a fire extinguisher, and a first aid kit, all close at hand.) She moved the earrings around a little, stared at them for a moment, and then got out some more beads, a needle, and thread.
She joined the two earring poinsettias together using a third flower and added a chain and clasp. Those two earrings were now a three poinsettia necklace.
She had a new necklace AND a bracelet, but, again, no earrings.
Out came the beads and thread, and in a few more moments she had a complete Christmas jewelry set made from the adorable little poinsettia flowers. The original earring was now a garden of flowers you can make and wear this Holiday season.
Kits are available now, on sale, in our web store at www.homestrungjewelry.com. You can also click on any of the pictures to open the individual product pages.
Each kit contains detailed instructions, and all of the beads and materials you need, except thread and needles, to make your own bouquet of beautiful poinsettias.
Give the gift of poinsettias this Christmas.
The 2019 “Hope” Snowflake Ornament Kit
The idea for this new ornament has been percolating through our minds for the last few years. We were looking for something a little fancier than our beaded star ornaments, but even easier to make.
This year we finally got it done and here is the result. It features some of our best quality glass pearls and enough sparkly crystals and Miyuki beads to send rainbows of light dancing around your room (which is why we like to hang them in a sunny window, as well as on the tree).
The snowflake kit is also on sale and you can see it in our store (Just click on the picture).
These snowflake ornaments look good on your tree, but they will also look great on the Christmas trees of your family, friends, and neighbors, so make sure you make a few for gifting. And even your most Christmas adverse friends won’t mind a snowflake “sun catcher”, or two, flooding the house with shimmering rainbows of light.
A Special New Bead for Our New Christmas Earring
When we saw pictures of these new beads we knew we had to have them. When they showed up we had the same idea: a new Christmas earring. We each came up with new designs and this is the one that won.
The earrings come in 5 fun colors, you can choose between silver and gold-colored findings, and you get to decide whether you want white shell pearl or crystal accents.
Check out all of the shiny bead colors on the product page in our store.
These are really easy and fast to make. We personally are making a lot of these to give away to family and friends this Christmas.
There is More in the Store
We have both a Christmas Jewelry category and one for Ornaments in our store with many more holiday designs to choose from. You can see all of the Christmas stuff there.