Several years ago my mom was going through her old jewelry box and found my baby bracelet–a gift from my grandmother. Until recently, it’s been knocking around in my jewelry box.
I was lamenting to a friend that I didn’t know what to do with it, and Suzanne said, “put it on a necklace.” Now why didn’t I think of that.
Now, this is one of my very favorite pieces, reminding me of three generations.

Until tomorrow–Sarah

Using the yudu, I screen printed onto broadcloth several images that were already on a screen. A birdcage, a bird, a bicycle, words—then I got button kits from Michael’s Crafts to make my first button using my own designs. I will be “cropping” all the images to find interesting lines and shapes, then once I have a pile of buttons I’ll have to figure out what to do with them all…maybe jewelry?

Here we find a teal and yellow flower…I’m calling this one “Marquette’s Daisy” a nod to my gradeschool days at the Catholic School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This reminds me of the innocent fun I had with my best friend, Beth Keefer, playing on the jungle gym and running off to the QT for a cherry slushy.

I die cut the two flowers and glued them between a few buttons. For the hanging loop, I bent old earring wires, then attached a silver jump ring so it would lay flat against my neck.

The necklace part I found rolling around in a box of old jewelry. And since it was a bit dull, I strung blue twine through the links.

It’s so cute I want to do cartwheels!