Remaking

First, I like Blogster more every day!  I came on today and there was a flashing envelope, so I clicked to get in there.  There were messages regarding replies to messages I've left on other blogs and messages I've left on other blogs.  It took me a bit to figure it out.  One of them said reply to the following article and the message looked like" some pics.  I had to think a bit, what did that mean, then I realized that was the name of the article and I could click on that to go to the article and read the message, LOL.  What can I say, I grew up blond.

Tatting, tatting, tatting.  I posted a necklace that didn't sell, then re posted it and posted a similar necklace in 2 places.  Neither of them sold.  I've screwed up my checking account, I'm sure with my ex-husbands able help, so I decided to go to the local eatery to see a friend there and she told me to bring some stuff.  In two days, I sold about $70 worth of stuff, necklaces.  I had started working with buttons.  Not the kind you use on clothing.  I've made necklaces with gold plated glass beads, silver round rose beads, hematite........ Then while I was looking over my stash (tatting stash!) I found my button stash.  I have some crayon buttons.  I strung them up on the thread to use like the beads.  I didn't take into consideration the size of the button and whether or not they would stay where I wanted them or just flop around.  Unfortunately, they just flopped around.  I kept thinking, though, cause I hate to have something beat me and took to putting the thread through the bead loop or whatever it's called, three times instead of straight threading through once.  That was pretty good, but I also while making the rings, wrapped the thread around the button after the first knot, making it stable on the necklace.  Then I realized that on the 2ND crayon button, the 2ND half of the stitch, I didn't put a 'pearl' bead on it and had to take it apart and start all over.  It is possible to un-make a ring once it's closed, but it would have taken longer to do that then to cut the beads off the work and restring them.  So, I tried again.  At the same place a stitch was too tight and I was hoping that once I got more stitches, I could loosen the tight one, but alas, it broke!  At this point I'm not sure if I've restrung it again or left it for tomorrow.  But.....I decided to scan what I've gotten done.    Those crayons aren't going anywhere!  I have little Christmas garland of tree lights.  I took them apart from the bulb and the threads, or whatever they're called.  I took them apart and glued them back together with krazy glue!  Hopefully, they won't break.  They shouldn't.  On one bracelet that I sold the split ring somehow fell off.  They still had the clasp, but not the split ring to connect the clasp to the necklace.  I told my friend that I will replace any defective clasps.  I had thought what fell off was the clasp, but it wasn't.  I'm going to buy one of those cold soldering things and am wondering if the tool itself will weld shut the split ring or do I have to use silver solder to meld them.