I'm Addicted to Pinterest!

     It was bound to happen. I'm addicted. To Pinterest that is. No, it's not some new drug or alcoholic drink or something. It's a website, app and it's awesome! I blame my friend Angela for this. LOL! She had posted a photo of this cool bracelet she had made, she found the instructions on Pinterest. I had never heard of this Pinterest and Googled it. Yes, Google is your friend. Google and I are pretty tight, seeing as how whenever I don't know something, I Google it. Which is becoming more and more frequent it seems... Anyhow I have digressed. So I found the website: www.pinterest.com and thought it looked pretty cool. The basic idea is this:
     It's pretty much a virtual bulletin board that you can "pin" pictures of things you like and find on the internet onto these "boards" you name.I have a ton of boards. Ones called "For When I am a Teacher", "Places I Want to Visit Someday", "Quotes and Thoughts", "Wedding Ideas", and so on. And each photo on your board has a website that it is attached to so you can click on the photo and be taken to the website from where it was "pinned". I have the app on my iPhone and can lose track of an entire afternoon quite quickly.
    So one day I decided to make a few of the crafts I found from websites posted on Pinterest. I'm quite proud of them actually. The sailor knot bracelets turned out awesome. I will have to figure out a way to add the links to where I found the crafts onto my blog so I can give credit to the people that deserve it, because I did not come up with these awesome ideas myself! Oh no, someone else did and I can't take credit for their creative genius!
    Need to try and also try and figure out how to post photos on here. Rather new to the whole blogging thing and posted photos for my first blog post but haven't blogged in over a month so I need to refresh myself! :)

 Here are the 3 Sailor Knot Bracelets I made.

The one on the left is made with ribbon, two pieces of 

silk/satin ribbon in an aquamarine, Tiffany blue type color and pink.

The one in the middle is made with yellow ribbon and the one on 

the right is the first one I made, with three strips of fabric.

 The colors here look darker than they actually are,

that's because I used Hipstamatic camera app on my iPhone.

 The braided necklaces I made

Sailor Knot Bracelet
Here is where I found the awesome sailor knot bracelet idea!! She gives you step by step directions on how to make them with fabric braided into the bracelets to join them together. I used fabric for my first bracelet and then decided to use the ton of ribbon I have. I also had a hard time just weaving the fabric/ribbon into the bracelet and used some little things to help get the fabric/ribbon into the bracelet. I used a chopstick for the fabric and then a small flat head screwdriver for the ribbon. 
Recycled Scraps Necklace
this is where I found the awesome necklaces I made from scraps of fabric and wore when I was working at my church's nursery this past weekend. I need to make them longer though and sew the braided parts to a piece of ribbon because I just knotted it and it looks sloppy to me. Added bonus is that the babies can chew on my necklaces now and I don't have to worry about them breaking my necklaces or pulling off the beads! Plus, it's great on their teeth and gums! Score!
Sailor Knots on Etsy
And here is where I got my sailor knot bracelets, Target was selling them for $1 in their dollar bin section at one point, but I found the blog like in early July and the lady posted the craft in early May so I was unable to find them at the Target I went to. And some kind person posted a link to this Etsy shop where I ultimately got a set of 10 sailor knot bracelets for about $20. The guy I bought my sailor bracelets was really nice and I got my package in the mail sooner than I had anticipated so that was nice! I love Etsy as well. Find all kinds of cool things on there!
Happy Crafting!

<3 Danielle