Welcome to Drop It or Swap It, the weekly linky party where you can link up with a picture of something you used to love but want to get rid of! It can be clothing, accessories, craft supplies, books, small home decor items, anything really that you don’t mind mailing. It can have its own dedicated post or be tagged onto the end of another post.
Before we get started, here’s a sneak peek at what I’ll be swapping over the next few weeks:
This is only week three of the swap so I welcome any feedback. I know it will take time to catch on and I hope you’ll give it a try! Link up a post that contains a picture of the item you would like to swap and have fun shopping around!
Now let’s start the swap! Please read the guidelines and ask any questions in the comments.
* Look around at the other links until you spy something that interests you. Visit
as many as you like and when you find something you’d like to swap for, leave
the other blogger a comment with a link to your posted item.
* Leave as many swap offers as you like with different bloggers, but please
be courteous and only leave one comment each. If you don’t get a response
just assume the other blogger is not interested or has already swapped.
Here’s a sweet set of 4 vintage linen napkins with strawberries. They are in good condition, and are genuinely vintage, not reproductions. I have had them for many years but have never used them. So they’re up for grabs!
Just leave me a comment if you have an item linked up that you would like to swap!
And here’s a peek at what I’ll be swapping over the next few weeks…
Welcome to another edition of Girls Want Pearls! This is #38 in a series of 52 posts on the wonderful pearl ~ ways to repurpose it, wear it, and decorate with it.
Spring has finally sprung and flowers are popping up everywhere! Yay! For today’s project I raided by button stash and grabbed some pearls, wire, and twigs from the yard to create… To create the daisy I simply threaded the wire through the back of the button and, using one long continuous strand of wire, threaded pearls on and looped each petal, twisting together in the back before creating the next loop. Then I attached the flower to the twig with wire. You can glue on lace or burlap leaves to complete the look.
And here’s a peek at what I’ll be swapping at my new link up Drop It or Swap It over the next 3 weeks… Drop It or Swap It goes live Tuesday night at 7 PM, and you can read more about it here.
Next week’s pearl post hint: Sun and Shade
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Welcome to Drop It or Swap It, the weekly linky party where us girls can shop each others’ stuff!
This is only week two of the swap so I welcome any feedback. I know it will take time to catch on and I hope you’ll give it a try!Link up a post that contains a picture of the item you would like to swap and have fun shopping around!
Now let’s start the swap! Please read the guidelines and ask any questions in the comments.
* Look around at the other links until you spy something that interests you. Visit
as many as you like and when you find something you’d like to swap for, leave
the other blogger a comment with a link to your posted item.
* Leave as many swap offers as you like with different bloggers, but please
be courteous and only leave one comment each. If you don’t get a response
just assume the other blogger is not interested or has already swapped.
Happy Monday! I hope your Easter holiday was a joyous celebration of the love of the Savior. I started the day by going to church with my husband, where we were joined by our daughter, son-in-law and three grand children. Our son and daughter-in-law live a couple hundred miles away and were unable to join us. They always come home for the holidays but he had to work. I was a little sad because it also happened to be my son’s birthday. We’ll all get together next weekend. I’ve learned that it doesn’t really matter the exact day we celebrate, as long as we’re together I’m happy.
So on to our Girls Want Pearls project. It’s #37 in the 52 week series! It’s time for some fashion! The last two weeks were decor related, and I tend to alternate between decor and fashion in these posts. Today I want to show you how to glam up your sandals with pearls.
In the first idea, I’ll give an ordinary pair of sandals…
A gladiator look! You’ll need: 4 strands of pearls, approx. 33 inches long 8 jewelry jump rings 4 jewelry clasps (lobster clasp or similar) loose pearls for embellishing
Preparing and attaching pearl strands: Open a jump ring and hook around your sandal strap as shown. Thread one end of a pearl strand into the ring and close. Then thread the other end of the pearl strand onto a jump ring and attach your clasp to that ring. Repeat these steps on all 4 strands. Wrapping the pearls: Take both loose ends of the pearl strands that are now attached to your sandal and pull up to make sure they are even in length. Tie them at the back of your leg above your heel, then tie in a knot. Next, criss cross the strands to the front of your leg, then to the back, then to the front again, then to the back until you have wrapped them four times. Bring both strands to the front and criss cross forming an X as shown before attaching the clasp to the ring on each side.
I wanted to tie in the look even more so I added three loose pearls into the sandal design. You can do this in one of two ways: put a straight pin through the pearl, loop the pin around with a small pair of pliers then sew onto the sandal strap; or just sew the pearl onto the strap without the pin.
For the second look, I embellished some fringe sandals by sewing on small strands of pearls that I strung and knotted, wrapping and hiding the knotted ends at the underside.
So, time to go get a pedicure or give yourself one. Mix it up and choose a color you’ve never dared to use before! And then go have fun showing off your toes and sandals!
I hope you’ll come back Wednesday and join the new link up Drop It or Swap It. The link up runs from Wednesday through Sunday night so you can have plenty of time to shop around other blogs to see what you would like to swap for. Early birds can link up Tuesday night beginning at 7 PM.
Here’s what I will be offering for swap. I know there are a lot of creative people that could do something really cute with these crusty rusty keys, 2 dozen of them to be exact.The keys have now been swapped with Donna from Distressed Donna Down Home!
And my item from the last swap didn’t get taken so I’m offering it again too. This cute striped pair of Tommy Hilfiger shoes, size 7 1/2. See you at the swap!
Next week’s pearl post hint: Please don’t eat the daisies
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