Christmas Earrings!

I am very new to making jewellery and I am the first to admit how bad I am at it. I have recently started a new job that sells beads and the bits and bobs you need to make jewellery. Since starting at this shop, I have learnt so much!

I decided to make a pair of Christmas tree earrings for my mum for her birthday present!

I'm not very good at photographing something that's so small! These earrings were made using Swarovski crystals. First, you will need to slide a 4mm cube bead (I used a siam-coloured bead) onto your head pin. Then thread on the sew on flowers in 10mm, then 8mm and finally 6mm in Emerald green, or whatever colour you decide to use. The final bead you will need to thread on is a 3mm Xilion bead. I decided to use a Golden Shadow bead to represent the star on top of the tree and I think it goes nicely with the gold plated fishhooks and headpins I used!

After you have threaded all your beads on, you will need to make a loop above the Xilion bead. There are many ways to do this so check out some YouTube videos (and once I improve, maybe I will make a tutorial!) Finally, attach your trees onto the fishhooks and ta-dah!! You have Christmas earrings!

I hope that you enjoyed this post. Let me know what you'd like to see in future posts on this blog :)

Christmas in The Corner of Craft House pt. 1!

It turns out that the people who live in TCOC's house are quite crafty! Our decorations aren't too extravagant but they're festive enough to get us in the Christmas mood :)

Let's start with the tree!

Here is our little tree :) My boyfriend won the battle and bought a real tree! It's not massive, but it's lovely! We have the standard lights, as there really needs to be lights on the tree! I don't think we can say that we went for a colour scheme! We used paper chains from Wilkinson's to bulk out the tree and baubles from Asda.

My housemate is South African and was deeply affected by Nelson Mandela's passing earlier this month. We thought it only fitting that he was the star on top of our tree! My housemate was the artist behind this masterpiece! He used yellow and orange paper and cut out two star shapes. He made a tube from card and decorated it with washi tape from Paperchase. Ta-dah! 

Some of you will be fans of The Big Bang Theory and will know that Christmas Day is also Sir Isaac Newton's birthday! My housemate, the creator of the star, saw that it was only fitting that we had a decoration dedicated to the birthday boy! Once again, decorated with festive washi tape!

My boyfriend is a big fan of lego! We have so many Lego mini-figures in our house and Star Wars characters! We used thread left over from the baubles to make some little Lego tree decorations! 

Our tree is such a jumble of themes and colours but I love it! It makes the decorations seem more authentic and homely :) I personally don't like to have a tree that looks like it belongs in a catalogue!

Stay tuned for part two of our festive decorations!