Jennifer Jangles Blog

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Hello everyone in blog land...... hope you're having a good day. I wanted to mention that I have two, great for spring and summer, projects in the April issue of Simply Beads. You should check them out. The first is a charm bracelet made with a sterling silver charm bracelet and my ceramic discs. It makes noisewhe...

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My husband, Nik and I have been working very hard on the Heynen Hula Hut. This is what we call our back porch bar. When we moved into our house a year ago, we had a four post structure just off to the side of the back porch. It screamed to us that it needed to be a tiki bar. We have been working on it for thepast year. It is functional but still needs things. This week it was stools. We had these...

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I can't believe it. I was asked to join the Bead Bloggers group. This is a group of amazing women who all bead, write books, write articles, and everything else that has to do with beads and jewelry making. Margot Potter nominated me to be a member, and some other great designers like Jean Yates and Melanie Brooks Lukacschimed in and said yes, let's have her. Woo hoo! So from here on out on...

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So it was just Birkley's Birthday and I am reminded every year when it comes around of how my life changed when he was born. You know, I have an older son, so I was already a mother and not sleeping. Motherhood was a huge change in my life, but I am talking beads here. This is a blog about beads, you know. Here is my story.....

From a few posts back you know that I used to make tiles and mosaics....

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My little guy turned five last week. Here's a picture of the castle cake we made. Now as soon as we finished decorating it, I took this photo. As soon as I got the photo snapped he added his people. Because castles have to have people right? He has quite the collection of Disney characters, Ninja turtles, Fairies, Power Rangers, and Super heroes. They all live together in his big wooden castle and...

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