I'm so excited to be here guest posting today. Just a little introduction, I'm Kimberly from The Brown Eyes Have It. I'm trying to be the best wife and mother I can be and having a little fun along the way and I blog about all that includes. Also today is my birthday! Yeah!! So as I was thinking of what I could post about, what the date was, realizing my littlest three need a birthday present for me, and I wanted a new watch, so that's what we're doing today - an easy safety pin watch or bracelet.
Supplies:
Safety pins - around 60 for a watch, around 70 for a bracelet
Stretchy cord - 2 pieces about 20" each - I used 1 mm thickness, you can use thinner, but the thicker
it is the stronger it is
Seed beads - picture shows two tubes, but I only needed one
Watch face - I forgot that in the picture, oops. A face with bars or holes in edge of the face is fine. If
you use a face with holes, make sure your cord is small enough to fit through the holes.
Clear nail polish or super glue
Open the pins and start loading the beads on. If you want a random pattern, the easiest thing to do is dump the beads in a bowl and just start scooping the pin through. Or, you can painstakingly pick out each bead and slide it on the pin in precise color order, the choice is yours. :)
After you've loaded all the beads onto the pins, start stringing the pins on one of the pieces of string. String them head up, head down, head up, etc. It makes them lay them nicer. Also make sure they're all laying the same way, either the clasp (beaded) side all up or the blank side up, just make sure they're the same. Really, take a look through them and make sure they're all the same, not that I had any experience with this. :) Lucky for me, my upside down one was towards the end.
After you've got them all strung on one string, string the other cord through.
