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DIY Ladder Necklace
This diy ladder necklace tutorial with quartz is a necklace you can make that you won’t be tired of wearing in like 3 weeks. You may have seen the ladder bracelet tutorial, where beads are threaded between two pieces of leather. A ladder necklace is a similar construction concept, only a little sturdier for your neck. Beads are threaded on gold wire between two chains. The effect looks like a ladder. I happened to have a ton of quartz chips and thought to put them to good use in this project, but this necklace design looks so cool with quartz points, especially a darker quartz in graduated sizes. I love…
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DIY Flower Lace Choker
This simple DIY flower lace choker combines two of my favorite things from the nineties: daisies and chokers. I made my flower lace choker from a crochet daisy lace I found at Joann’s Fabrics, but any kind of lace will work for this project. Shop around for the different kinds of lace at the fabric store near you. This daisy chain was my favorite lace, but there were so many options. You can even get creative and add little bead embellishments, coins, or pearl charms to the edges of the lace trim. Joann’s even had some lace fabrics that already had these beaded embellishments sewn onto them. Whatever fabric you choose, get…
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How to Make DIY Mala Bead Necklace
I’m so excited about this mala necklace DIY! This has been on my bucket list for a while, so in case it was on anyone else’s, here’s how to make a DIY mala bead necklace. A strand of mala beads are kind of a yogi right of passage. They’re traditionally a set of beads used for prayer and meditation, similar to a rosary. You don’t have to belong to a religion to have or wear these. A mala necklace can enhance your personal practice and meditation, encourage a calmer state of mind, and ground you in mindfulness throughout the day. Mala bead necklaces are typically made up of 108 beads…
