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Frenchie Necklaces

August 22, 2013 / BY Okio B Designs
**Don't forget to enter my Country Living magazine book giveaway here!** It's a bit of a rainy, miserable kind of day here.  The kind of day when you don't feel guilty staying indoors.  While the boys were busy playing this morning, I broke out some jewelry pieces and whipped up these two necklaces. Each is backed with French book paper.  Then I added some of these lovely religious images.  For this piece, I added a...

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French Sacks

June 05, 2012 / BY Okio B Designs
I've been cleaning house since last week.  Prepping for our upcoming garage sale.  I keep finding little odds and ends here and there that slipped my mind.  I had a stack of ordinary dollar store lunch bags and decided to spruce them up a bit: I used some patterned crafting scissors to cut off the tops of each bag.  Then I distressed some French poetry pages and glued them to the front of each bag....

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