My Christmas!

My Christmas was wonderful!!! I had a fabulous time with family and Loved every second of it! I love Christmas time! I recieved a new camera and LOVED playing around with it! Here are a few pictures I took of our Christmas Celebration!


Playing around with filters, focus, and the tree!

The tree with the starburst lens!
 

The tree with the the starburst lens but this time NOT in focus!
 

The tree with the starburst lense and closer up!
 

Legos! My little sister had a lot of fun doing these... She did a fantastic job didn't she?

One of her kits was a police car and a robber...heres a close up of the bad guy!
 

Her Boat house and boat! I love the guy at the binoculars! (I put him there...)
 

New scarf made by my WONDERFUL mom! (the alligator stitch)
 

I thought I would be an AMAZING grandaughter and make Gluten Free cookies for my Grandfather! :) Of course I took a photo!
 

I got new CDS too and couldn't resist taking an artistic photo!
 

New Boots! My sister and I have only been looking for boots for about a year and an half and our awesome Aunt got us some for Christmas! This is a picture of them! I didn't relize that the boots that I put on my wish list had a heel and because I am not allowed to wear heels I had to give them back to her to return... :( but I am gettting a pair EXACTLY the same as my sisters! :) (the darker ones)
 

The Roast Beef. Okay- I hate roast beef but I needed something to take a photo of and this was on the table and it came out looking amazing- So here it is!!
 

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

Bird Nest Earring Tutorial!

So a little bit ago, when I was hunting around Pinterest, I came across this cute Bird Nest necklaces tutorial from this awesome website! At the time I was stuck in bed and was COMPLETLY bored... I decided to try it! Here is what my necklace looked like.

When I finished the necklace... I wanted to make a maching pair of earrings. I made them... and didn't take a photo of them. I decided I wanted to make another pair of just earrings and this time I took photos of the steps...

What you need...
Round Beads in any shape and size you want- I have found that 3 per nest works well
2 Earring Wires
2 Jump Rings
20 or 24 guage wire

How To:
*I think the pictures above are almost better than what I could write- but I will write the steps out anyway*

1. Put your first bead about 1 inch and a half up the wire
2. Secure its place by looping the wire, that is attached to the spool, back to the entrance whole and where the shorter end is

3. Put the 2 other beads on and bend the 3 beads into a triangle then fold the remaing wire towards the middle.
4. Wrap the wire around the beads until it is almost the what you want it to look like
5. Cut the wire about 6-8 inches
6. Tricky part is now... as you probably have noticed, the wires are starting to spread apart, so now that you have cut the wire you can wrap it around the loose outer wire (wordy I know)
7. Wrap it to your hearts content or at least until you have about 1 1/2 inches left
8. Begin to wrap it again but stop so that you can make a loop to connect your jump ring to
9. Make the loop about the size of a jump ring and then take your pliers and twist. It should look like the top hap of an 8
10. Wrap the remaining wire around the twist
11. If your loop has become squished use a pair of round nose pliers to make it round again
12. Do the same for the other earring
13. Open the jump ring and place you loop of the nest on it
14. Next place your earring wire on the jump ring
15 Close the jump ring
16. Do the same thing again for the other earring

TADA! You have finished!

Here's a bigger picture of mine:

~Sarah
PS please don't mind my messy nail polish job...