well, the other night i was feeling the craft itch and i knew just which craft to scratch. i was reading on the glamourai’s blog about how to make bib necklaces and fancied a challenge. i’m not one to wear much jewelry but have been wanting to change that. ANYWAYS i rummaged through my jewelry drawer and pulled out this:

groovy

it’s a long chain i got a while back and have worn with a few things but was never thrilled with it. this would be the first necklace to get hacked (by the way, i have never chopped apart a necklace before and the experience was kind of exhilarating!). anywho, i had gone to beacon’s closet earlier to hunt for the perfect sweater but alas only came home with these necklaces:

beacon's beauties

they are great on their own, but i probably wouldn’t wear just them. so i got out jeremy’s trusty cutty things (jer, i’m still not sure what they are called…wire cutters? something?) and started snipping the links. this proved kind of tricky because they are all interconnected…

snip snip snip

but i snipped, and draped and lined them all up to see how it would look once they were all hanging:

stacked

now, it’s been coming to my attention more and more that i am somewhat of a perfectionist. and here, in the picture above, everything is draped perfectly. however, i think i bungled up the stitching part because when i was finished they didn’t line up as perfectly as they did here. but alas, i grabbed some ribbon i had laying around from a present sarah gave me and stitched as best i could and TA-DA:

le bib

i think it looks pretty bitchin for something i made by hand, but i’d like to do another now that i have the hang of it.