Upcycled Dog Tag Jewelry

Oftentimes when I come home, I end up being confronted by my mother as such:

Mom: Becca. Look. I got these things.

Me: Yo. What. Oh. Okay.

Mom: Make something.

Me: Word.

*Direct quotes.

And it usually ends up with me creating something weird, but that's really no different than any other day of my life.

So last time I came home [... or some time... I don't remember... it was a little while ago], my mother showed me that she bought an entire jar of old dog tags. Why? Because of reasons I guess.

Therefore, I decided to upcycle them into some fun jewelry:

I have never seen dog tag like these ones before, but she got them from an antique store in the next town over [shout out to the tag that says Lucifer on it].

Once she gave me the tags though, I really just sat down and played around with some materials that I found in my basement: hemp, alligator clips, beads, glue, other items, and what not.

I did three main strings on both the necklace and bracelet-- one to contain the tag, a braided hemp strand, and a last string with knots and beads.

Then at the end, I just used some copper wire to attach all the strings together, then glued them with E6000 so that they stayed super-attached to the alligator clips. And just like that-- new life to old dog tags!

Side note: take note of the hella-dope para-cord bracelet that my oldest brother made me. I like to tell people that he enjoys man crafts. Because it's true.

But yeaaaah. These were pretty fun to make, and it was fun to give new life to another old material! Now I'm tempted to make something out of Gypsy's old rabies tags just because... hmmmm....

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March/April Sketchbook

Heeeey friends :]

I thought I would share a peek at my sketchbook from the last two months. There isn't anything too special going on, but I'm going to try and sketch more over summer to keep myself fresh. So here we are!

Here we have some pencil sketches of one of my OC's [with one of my fave quotes from Christopher Palu. I love that man so much. Y'all don't even KNOW.]

And cats because yeah.

At one point I took my students on a field trip to the Art Institute and ended up doing some studies of the Greek sculptures they have there.

Because come on-- marble sculpted fabric? Art-gasmic. I have mad respect for anyone who can carve marble.

I also recently got into the show Attack on Titan, which is pretty cool. Armin is def my fave character because I have a weak spot for my fellow nerds.

And Eren of course because why not.

I haven't been doing a lot of full-color drawings lately, but I did manage to finish one of my OC Esther.

And last, but hella not least, I think it's pretty well established how much I love Party King Thrandy. Ugh. I can't.


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