A CHARMing Necklace - A Tutorial

Hi Friends! How are you? I hope you had a fabulous weekend and that your week is off to a good start!

Today I have a jewelry tutorial y'all. It's quick and simple and would make a cute Christmas gift or stocking stuffer. 

I call it my "Charm"ing Necklace...

It's super light, and cute and really adds character to an outfit!

Wanna make your own? It's easy! Here's how:

Then grab some paint in colors you love. I used:

Next follow steps 1-4:

You can get as creative with the colors as you'd like!

**there are WAY better findings for this project then the ones I used (which are brass flat head pins), but that is what I had on hand and I didn't want to go out and spend money. As Tim Gunn would say.."MAKE IT WORK PEOPLE!" : )

Now, follow steps 1-4: use your needle nose pliers to turn into a cane like shape, put your embellishments right sides together onto the pin at the turned part, then keep turning until the "charms" are enclosed:

I bought the scrapbook embellishments at the Dollar Store. A pack of about 15 for a buck! the rest I had on hand. I think it would look cute with a ribbon instead of a chain too, but I've ran out of cute ribbon. I'm left with the weirdest most random colors. Does that ever happen to you? It's like, why did I even buy those ribbons in the first place?! 

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed it! And I have another fun tutorial (a sewing one!) coming very soon!
And if you wanna see more jewelry tutorials you can go here for my Spoon Pendent tute (most popular) or here for a tutorial on how to add texture to wooden beads. Or you can click on the "Tutorials" tab for more :) 

And as always, thank you so much for reading my lil' blog  my sweet friends, it really means so much to me : )

xoxo, Dorian

Oh, and I'm sure you've noticed a surplus of giveaways suddenly and less crafting. I apologies for my lack of creativity lately, and hope to change that soon. The giveaways are my way of saying "thank you" and "Merry (early) Christmas!". I wanted to have giveaways that would give us hard working mommas something to look forward to opening during this crazy Christmas season. We often are so busy thinking about all our loved ones' gifts that we forget ourselves! Well, I remembered you and wanted to give YOU something fun! I wish everyone could win :( ***I know some of you really enjoy giveaways and some of you really don't. For those that like them...enter! This is for you! And for those that don't: wait it out and skip those post, I promise it'll calm down soon!
And yes, there is a current giveaway :) You can enter HERE for $40 in Plaid Paint, Mod Podge and Brushes!

On that note...I have another AMAZING giveaway for you this Monday...it's soooo good you guys...soooo very very good : )

Linked HERE