Raindrops on Rainbows Beading Pattern

Hi!

I finally wrote out the "Raindrops on Rainbows" beading pattern for you guys. The pattern is done in brick stitch. The finished rainbow could be used as a necklace charm (as pictured below), large earrings, as a little decoration on your purse....or anywhere else that would benefit from a cheerful little rainbow:)

You can find a PDF version of the pattern HERE.

I noticed the link I had to the brick stitch tutorial on my other patterns was no longer working. So, HERE is a new one I found. It's animated, which is kinda cool. HERE is another tutorial with instructions for how to do fringe at the end. I found the instructions HERE to be good too. I start my first row with one bead (after the base/ladder stitch row) more like this tutorial.

For the "chain" part of the necklace in the picture above, I used beading wire and strung seed beads in various sizes in a rainbow color pattern. Also, I used all round size 11/o seed beads for the rainbow. The bead sizes could be changed up to make the rainbow larger or smaller.

You can find other helpful beading info HERE.

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Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions!

Rainbow Birthday Cake

My youngest, Sienna, turned 5 yesterday!

For her birthday cake, we made this double rainbow.

It's really easy. You just need to split up the frosting and mix up the colors and bake your cake in a bunt cake pan.

You bake the cake and cut it in half...

Then, frost it like a rainbow and

add cotton candy to the bottoms for clouds!

Here is the banner I made for her cake,

the back said Sienna 2011.

Here is the 5 candle holder I made,

I plan on selling these in my shop soon...

along with some similar initial ones for wedding cakes.

We used a funfetti cake mix, so it was colorful inside too!

Because it ends up being a double rainbow, it reminded me of that YouTube video where the guy is so excited to see the double rainbow!

"full on double rainbow all the way";)

This and That

A couple things I have made this week:

This is a rainbow necklace I made as a gift for Sienna's 5th birthday. We are doing a rainbow theme for her birthday, so I will have more pictures to share later of her rainbow cake and cupcakes we are going to make. I am also planning to post the pattern for this necklace later. I'm calling it "Raindrops on Rainbows".

That is Charles' school backpack transformed into a Monster-Pack. We saw something similar on Etsy a while ago. We just sewed on felt pieces to make the monster face. I love the zipper pocket unibrow and the large pocket mouth. Charles feeds his monster pens;) It was a great way to get him excited about his "old" backpack again, since it is still in really great condition. Cost for project= "free" (because I had all the supplies)...and no need to spend money on a new backpack for school this year!

Oh...and my polymer clay pug tutorial was/is featured on the front page of a great website called instructables! If you look soon, you might still catch it!