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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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Back to My Jewelry Roots

June 25, 2013 / BY Okio B Designs
Long before I was a wife and mother, I started my crafting endeavors by making jewelry.  It was the perfect distraction for what seemed at the time to be a stressful life (little did I know!).  When I first started my Etsy shop, I had some earrings and necklaces in there that quickly sold and that was the end of that. Over the weekend I popped into Michael's and saw some nice jewelry templates from...

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