Craftiness: Miss Muffet's Baubles

Some people who have never been to California think it never rains here.  Let me tell you---it does.  Only this year, instead of being rainy, rainy, rainy from Thanksgiving until March, we've actually had lots of sunny days.  It's been nice, but it means drought conditions this summer unless we get a few weeks of solid rainfall.

Anyway, on the few rainy days we've had, Miss Muffet and I have been making jewelry.  She really loves to accessorize, and while I have enough beads to open a small shop, we frequently find things she just can't live without.  Much to my chagrin, the beads have been acrylic (my preference is gemstones, glass, and metal), but it's actually a good material for little kids since necklaces and bracelets sometimes find themselves hitting the pavement and shattering.

I strung this one for her because she really wasn't interested on the day we made it.  She wanted to play with the beads and pretend they were soup ingredients for her pretend kitchen's pots and pans.

The matching bracelet.  I strung this one for her in a moment of distraction just to get it done.  She was dismayed to see she was out of soup ingredients, but LOVED the finished jewelry.

We need to re-string both of these butterfly pieces.  I had never worked with Stretch Magic before and bought stuff that was too thick, so the knots won't "disappear" inside the hole of the bead.  They're just too large and we need thinner diameter cord so the beads can slip over the knots and hide them.

This one was her own design.  I just put the clasp on, and she strung and designed the entire thing.  The hearts are gigantic so the bracelet is really chunky, but she LOVES it.  I love how bold it is, and how she put the odd green heart in there along with the use of both solid and clear hearts.  It looks really neat.

Due to the overwhelming task of stringing seed beads (you try letting a Type A four-year-old muck about with seed beads then let me now how it goes---hahaha), I strung this one for her, but the design is hers.  The flowers are actually buttons that we found at Michael's.  This is currently her favorite necklace, or so she says.

This one was my idea.  I strung it while she was busy with painting.  This one is also her favorite necklace because red is her favorite color and because it looks like a pwincess necklace with pwetty wed jewels that wook wike wubies.  She wears it with her pwincess dwesses.

This one is just a simple bracelet of two hole spacers we found at Jo-Ann strung on thinner Stretch Magic.  It's fancy, and pwincess-y, so it gets worn quite a bit.

It's been really neat to introduce Miss Muffet to this type of creative outlet and I'm eager to see what she creates in the future.