I came across this design over at Corvus Tristis and wanted to make it - so I did.



The 'bunting' is made out of scrap fabric and was a real bear to do.

I originally made these for the Craftster beading challenge, then realized it probably wasn't the type of thing they wanted. These earrings are basically a beaded representation of scoliotic spines with S-curves.



(The rest of this is just why I felt the need to make these, so feel free to skip the rest of this post if you don't feel like reading it.)

Scoliosis has basically run my life for me for the past thirteen years. I was five and having back pain, so my mother got me a mattress pad and that was the end of it. I got a physical the summer I turned eight and found out my scoliosis was past the cutoff point for surgery. Because I was so young, I got a Boston brace for it. I had the surgery when I was twelve. Long story short, the surgery was messed up, and so I ended up with chronic back pain. I've realized scoliosis is pretty media-shy, so I've been coming up with ways to try to get people to know about it, including writing articles, making things like this, and blogging about it occasionally.

For those of you who don't know (if you're still with me), scoliosis is the bending and twisting of the spine into basically what those earrings look like (for an S curve) or into the top or bottom half of those earrings (for a C curve). If you're interested in getting more information, go here!

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I saw the UrbanThreads tutorial on a ruffled T-shirt bag and decided "I can do that!" (Long story short: I couldn't. I can't do ruffles worth beans.) So I left the ruffles off and came up with this.



It says "Coffee! You can sleep when you're dead."

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I love the 1950s-era-looking "coffee" images. SO of course I had to make one.

The eyes freak me out a little bit. There's just something...off about them. Maybe it's just that the eyebrows/eye sockets aren't seen very well.

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My roommate strung up skeleton lights around the door, which made me realize I was dropping the ball for Halloween decoration.  That, of course, sent me scurrying to my spare fabric bin and...well, this was the result.



Then, because I have scoliosis and I love in-jokes, I made a spine for the little thing.



It's stuffed with fabric scraps of T-shirts I've used for various things. It took around 3 hours to make and was hanging from the ceiling for a little bit.

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I made jewelry for the HP premiere. I made a Ravenclaw/Slytherin bracelet, a Snitch necklace, and radish earrings.



The Snitch was made from gold Sculpey and silver wire. The radishes were made from red Sculpey and green wire. The bracelet was bronze wire and beads and a barrel clasp.

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I found some old jeans when I was going through my drawers in preparation for college (18 days! YAY!!!!!). Naturally, I decided to make a bag. I found Hanlon's Razor - "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" - to be especially relevant because I mixed up my laundry marking pen and my water-soluble pen, decided to learn satin-stitching while doing this project, and overestimated how much fabric I would need by almost a foot.

Live and learn, and luckily it turned out okay!