The 9 "Bee's" Necklace

I am fortunate to be able to be in the Young Women's presidency in our ward.  Every month, we have a combined activity where all of the age groups join together.  As a presidency, we thought it might be fun to give the girls a theme to go with the activities and came up with President Gordon B. Hinckley's "Be's" which are basically a list of all the things that a young women should be.  As a part of that, we wanted to do a project that would remind them of everything we are learning so that they could have it with them everyday.  These necklaces are what I came up with.

We needed something that was inexpensive, but that the girls would still enjoy.  I really think that we achieved that.

Here's what you need to get started.

*Stamping Set (I got mine here) 

*Washers

*Sharpie Marker

*Bee Charms

*Hammer

To begin, you will need to have a solid surface (as in concrete solid.)  I found that my garage floor or the sidewalk worked the very best.  One by one, using the stamping set, you hammer each letter into place.

If you look close, it is kind of hard to see the letters.  To make them stand out a little more, use a sharpie marker and color over the top of the letters.  It will be messy, but don't worry about that.  once you have the word covered in black, use a baby wipe and wipe the marker off.  It will stay in the letters, and it will come off the rest of the washer. 

Here is how I arranged the words so that they worked the best. 

If you do the words this way, once you put them together it makes it so that you can see all of the words still.

We used suede rope to cut the costs down a little, but you can use any sort of chain or rope to hang it from your neck.  We also attached a little bee charm that I found on etsy which I think adds a whole new dimension of cute plus it is a clever use of the word "bee" instead of "be".  Get it?  So now it's "Bee" Smart instead of "Be" Smart. 

 

Stamped Washer Necklaces

I have been really into making these necklaces lately.  I think they are so darling and they make the PERFECT gifts.  Here are the first couple that I made for myself just that I could get the hang of it.

Now that I know how to use the stamps, I feel like I can make them for other people without them thinking it was made by my almost two year old daughter, Lillie. 

I found a super cute way to package them as gifts that I am going to share with you next week sometime.  Come back tomorrow because I am going to show you one other project that I did using these stamps.  I will tell you where I got all of the supplies and how it all works in that post.  Hopefully you'll stop by again tomorrow!

Anthropologie-esk necklace

I was browsing through my reader when I stumbled upon a great tutorial from Little Miss Momma for the cutest pom pom necklace.

She uses the same method that I used to make Lillie's poofy flower.  I love the simplicity of it and knew that I HAD to make one for myself.  I bought this necklace at Kohl's on clearance because I knew I would need a chain for the necklace but couldn't find one that I loved.

Insert ugly necklace here.  Ok, maybe not THAT ugly, but not something I would wear.  I'm not a yellow kind of girl.  The best part is that there are a ton of chains so I can make more than one necklace out of it.  So I took it apart and used one of the chains on my necklace.

I pretty much used the same tutorial that little miss momma used, but I added just a little Jonie to it.  I had these pearls in my stash and thought it would add a little "fancy" to the necklace.  I love the way it looks.  I arranged the individual flowers on the felt the way I wanted them to look.

 Then I hot glued it on the felt .  The chain is attached and it's ready to be cut out.

Here I am wearing it. 

I wore it to my family Christmas parties and it was a hit.  I know I love the way it turned out.  I am thinking I am going to have to make more!