Famous Jewelry Collections: June 2013

Real Sea Shell Jewelry Tutorials

Collecting sea shells while strolling along a beach is a common past time. But what to do with them? Making sea shell jewelry will make your vacation or summer time memories wearable! Here are two tutorials which makes use of both small and large shells.

Kirsten Nunez of Studs and Pearls has a wonderful and easy tutorial for painted and embellished sea shell stud earrings. If you can paint and glue, you can do this one.

I also liked Natasha of Tasha Delrae's tutorial for a very bold metallic painted sea shell necklace.

You should wear some sort of dust mask if you are drilling holes in sea shells. Alternatively, place the shells and the drilling base in a plastic container and just cover the shells with water. The water will contain the dust. Also make sure your drill is plugged into a GFCI outlet.

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Awesome Ombre Knotted Cord Bracelet Tutorial

Beth's ombre knotted cord bracelet tutorial over at Remarkably Domestic is stellar on so many levels. First of all, design is lovely with a clever ombre twist. It took her weeks to find the kind of knot she liked before she came up with her final tutorial!

She then went on to write a well illustrated tutorial. She included not just pictures of each step but also a short video on a tricky bit. Her pictures covered the materials needed as well as final project pictures - the shot above, another with the bracelet laid out and modeled!

It is so clear she spent a lot of time taking good photographs and preparing the images. I also like how she titled her final bracelet picture. I am so not a fan of watermarks or titles obscuring the image.

Beth's tutorial is a shining example of how bloggers should write one!

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