Super Cute and Sophisticated Mustache Necklace

In this post, I will be showing you how to make a super cute and sophisticated mustache necklace. I know that I haven't been posting much lately, but now that is summer break, I will be posting as much as I can.This necklace is an absolute show-stopper.you can make it the traditional black, like I did, or you can brighten it up with colors like neon pink or yellow.
You don't need many materials for this project.

Here's what you'll need:

• one relatively large ball of clay (any color. I used sparkled black)
• two eye pins (one cm in length)
• one necklace chain
• one pair of wire cutters or strong scissors
• one pair of pliers

First, lay out your chain.

Use your wire cutters to cut it in half at the middle. Set aside for now.

Take your ball of clay, and roll it into a ball if you haven't already.

Roll your ball into with smaller tips than middle.

Curl in the edges of the snake a bit.

push in the middle of the snake so there is an indent in the middle. Set aside your mustache.

Take your eye pins and open them with your pliers.

Hook up your eye pins to each end of the chain, then close your eye pins up again with the pliers.

Take your mustache and push the eye pins into each side. Put in the oven at 112 c (230 f). and bake for 15 min. Take out to cool. If you want to speed up the cooling, pour a little water on the tray.

Now you are done, and i have to say, they are "mustacular"(; these necklaces are spectacularly sophisticated, no matter what color you make them. In this post, I also want to thank my father, because he is my cameraman, and when I get stuck on something, he shows me how to do it properly. He is such a big help. Thank you Dad!

DIY Enormous Turtle Charm

In this post I will be showing you how to make a turtle necklace.This little charm was inspired by a necklace that I saw at Claire's while I was browsing through for inspiration. It has been quite popular with some of the girls at my school, so I decided to see if I could make it myself. I was able to make a pretty good (slightly huge) version of it. Instead of putting a flower on the shell, I decided to leave it blank, so you can decide on your own what to put on it. (You can also it on a keychain. I did this prior to publishing this post, and it worked better with the very LARGE turtle, instead of a necklace chain.)  These little turtles look fabulous,and make great gifts or party favors for girls.

You will need:
1 large ball of blue or green clay
1 necklace chain 
1 relatively large ball of blue and white clay (mixed)
1 eye pin 1\2 an inch long
1 relatively small ball of black clay 
1 small fake flower or leaf (optional)

Divide your  large ball of  blue or green clay into two pieces: one ball slightly bigger than the other.

  

Now take the bigger ball...

...and press down the top of the ball on a flat and smooth surface, so that it will be flat on the bottom, but round on the top.

It should look something like this.

Now, take the smaller ball,

And roll it into a snake about 2 inches long, with the head a little thicker than the rest of the body.

It should look somewhat like this.

Then, take the ball of mixed white and blue, and divide it into 4 small balls of the same size.

Mold each ball into a leaf shape.These will be the arms.

They should look like this.

Now, press the shell to your snake, being very careful not to squish the head.

Flip the turtle's body over and add on the legs, making sure that the legs point outward.

It should look something like this.

Now take your black ball of clay, and divide it into two equal pieces.

Then press the eyes to the turtle's face.If you want to have nostrils, you can use the tip of a blunt pencil to poke them onto his face.

Finally, you can take the eye pin and push it in right about where the mouth would be.

You're done, your turtle is complete.Just bake and let it surf around your neck, splash around your wrist, or even frolic around your fingers on a ring.                                     XOXO, Via