Do it yourself for Halloween

I've written before about how creative Carolyn has gotten with making her own jewelry to match her various outfits. She finds that it's often easier and certainly less expensive to make your own instead of shopping for just the right thing. Of course this only works if you have some talent and taste. She has both.


This Halloween she combined some good quality connectors and wires with some rather less quality beads and dangles from Oriental Trading, the place that sells 10 toys for a buck. But if all you want is a bead that sits on a wire or chain, you can probably get by with less expensive beads.

Another nice feature of the Do It Yourself system is that Carolyn had some leftover pieces that she sent to her granddaughters in Long Beach.


She would have made me a couple of ear rings but I really don't the right outfits to go with the colors of these beads.