SweetSimpleJoys

DIY headbands are so much fun and easy to make. I created one for each of our flowergirls during our wedding, and they loved it. I saw one still wearing her headband days after the wedding was over and what a joy it was to know that she really liked my DIY hairpiece. But DIY [...]

In the Philippines, March and April are graduation months. Inspired by this, I recently created a new beaded necklace with a large metal pendant resembling a medallion. It shows in the last image that I have some vacant spots in the medallion. I scoured two craft stores already looking for something small enough to fill [...]

We’re back to business. Well, actually this is something I did a few weeks back but haven’t found the time to take photos of. Until now. For lack of a better term, I’m calling this Balls in Green ‘n Gold. They look more like green grapes. But I prefer them to be balls. Haha. So [...]

Up now on the wedding blog. The second installment of the DIY wedding cord tutorial, this time using a wire loop technique to create a beaded wedding cord. I wanted to do something unique and non-conforming so I decided not to use the usual round beads. It came out okay, I guess, for someone who [...]

I’ve always thought blue green as a very regal color, in the league of burgundy, purple and gold. And to my delight, I found a perfectly matching glass (heart) beads and acrylic floral flat beads among my materials. But the challenge was how to use flat beads without gluing or attaching them to a base. [...]