NAUTICAL BEJEWELED HAIR BARRETTE

Quick and easy and under $1 to make! Items used:

• Stone or jewel
• 24 inches of rope
• Barrette blank
• Hot Glue Gun and glue.

Tie a knot in the center of the rope.

Make two more knots then place jewel in the center, then make three more knots on the other side.

If it looks how you want it to you are ready to glue it to the barrette, if not, you can undo the knots and redo it and/or make more or fewer knots.

Put hot glue around the circumference of the jewel.

Push it in on the underside of the knots and glue around the edges to secure.

Put a line of glue across the length of the knots and jewels and then place the barrette on top of the glue and allow it to dry.

Tie knots in the ends of each piece of the rope.

Nautical Bejeweled Shoes

I bought the overly white shoes when Steve & Barry's were going out of business a few months ago for around $3 and they have been sitting my closet as well, they are just too darn white and too darn plain.

After making a Nautical Bejewled top and having leftover stones, I decided to jazz up the shoes to somewhat match the top and the end result cost me less than $4 total.

Items used:

• White canvas shoes
• 2 1/2 yds for white rope cording (.37 yd at Walmart)
• 8 decorative stones
• Amazing Goop glue
• Hot glue gun and glue sticks
• Tape
• Clothepins

I arranged 3 stones on top of the shoes and glued down with Amazing Goop glue. To help keep the stones from sliding, I attached clothes pins on either side of the two stones on the top of the shoe.

I glued 1 stone on the heel of each shoe and held it in place with a clothespin while it dried.

Cut the rope into 45 inch lengths and tape off each end with tape to keep the rope from unravelling. Center the length of rope and tie a knot in the center and loop around the stone at the toe of the shoe. Tie knots around the other two stones and take it to the back of the shoe and tie a knot around the stone in back.

Pull of the knot and use a hot glue gun to glue around the stone then push the knot back down over the stone to glue it into place. Repeat with all stones until completed. I also pushed the rope on the side up a bit and ran a thin line of glue on each side then pushed the rope back down and glued it to each side.

Designer Inspired Nautical Bejewled Top

This top is based on a tutorial at Carbon Couture on a version of designer Phillip Lim's nautical theme top.

http://carboncouture.blogspot.com/2009/05/anchors-away.html

I was able to make this version for under $8, but the stones are a little heavy - a lighter weight t-shirt would not work with as many stones as I used without pulling down the fabric.

Items used:

• Heavy weight t-shirt
• Decorative stones (I used 11 total)
• Amazing Goop Craft Adhesive and Sealant
• 2 yds of rope (I would recommend getting at least 3 yds - I did not have enough to go all the way around the top-just the front)
• 1/8th yd. iron on interfacing
• Iron & ironing board
• Glue gun and glue stick
• Needle and thread

I couldn't find any large flat beads at any of the local craft stores, so I resorted to using the decorative stone that you can get at the dollar store.

Glue the stones to the top of the interfacing about an inch apart and press down firmly.

Quickly flip the interfacing over before the glue seeps through and allow the glue to dry.

Once the glue is dry, cut around the stones to allow just enough of the interfacing to stick out that will be covered by the rope (I ended up cutting most of the ones below down further after tieing a piece of the rope around them as it was too wide).

Position the stones on the t-shirt how you want them.

Iron around the edges of the interfacing to tack it to the t-shirt.

After tacking down all of the edges with the iron, turn on the steam and go over all of the stones, then allow to cool off for about 5 minutes.

Turn the t-shirt inside out and iron over the back of the stones then allow to cool about 5 minutes.

Tie the rope around the stones.

Once the rope is in place lightly tack the rope to the interfacing in several places around the rope, then hand stitch the rope to the top.