Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Sarisha's Flip n Switch Caps





Our daughter Sarisha came up with this idea after playing with a blank bottle cap and my refrigerator magnets. She was thrilled to be able to switch the bottle caps and then I taught her how she could make it LIVE for her friends and she tried doing it at a craft faire with me and she was addicted and sold way more items than I did!! The customer is able to choose from a series of image sheets preprinted and her customers can place their orders and watch her hand make them LIVE. As soon as she makes a pendant she will hand it directly to her customer. The customer can either buy a necklace, a hair clip, or ring with a flattened blank bottle cap attached to it. Then you can go crazy with all the different choices of magnets.

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Custom Scrabble tile bracelet

One of my friends wanted me to try and make a charms bracelet for her to give as a shower gift so I started experimenting.  I tried making the holes through the tiles to run the elastic thread but alas I am NOT handy with juggling the drill and holding down the small tile.  So I decided to attach a hook and then put some split rings and attach the tile charms to the bracelet chain.  Now my friend wanted the letters to spell out a saying but in reality I collect these tile pieces through the thrift stores, garage sales, friends giving me their old game sets etc so I cannot be sure to have all the letters to spell anything cohherent (it might end up like my bad spelling!)



After making this I was thinking that it would be nice if the bracelet owner was able to switch the scrabble tile charms whenever they wanted.  So I decided to test out a tile with a small lobster claw clasp.
let me know your thoughts and ideas.  I think I am going to first list this on my own site www.jubilantwares.com