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Family Fun with Cousins! šŸ˜„

  • Writer: Allison Doyle
    Allison Doyle
  • Oct 17, 2023
  • 2 min read

Updated: Mar 12

This past weekend my husband's Aunt Sandy and her two boys came to Minnesota to visit with the family (they live in Colorado). While they were here Shawn and I got to hang out with the 3 of them and while Shawn and the older son Kenny were playing video games, the younger son Jason wanted to do crafts and make jewelry with me again! šŸ˜Š


We started making things with perler beads and he made himself a necklace pendant that he calls ā€œThe Avocado of Life!ā€ šŸ„‘ Then we moved on to making jewelry and he made himself a cool bracelet with wood beads, a couple of fun star beads with faces on them and a yin yang pendant ā˜Æļø


A 13 year old blonde boy posing with his arms crossed wearing a perler bead necklace that he made looks like an avocado and wearing the wooden beaded bracelet he made.
Jason posing for a picture wearing the jewelry he made.

A 13 year old boy holding his arm up near the camera to show off the wooden beaded bracelet that he made.
Jason showing the back side of the bracelet he made.

A 13 year old boy holding his arm up near the camera to show off the front of the wooden beaded bracelet that he made.
Jason showing the front of the bracelet that he made.

While we were crafting I asked Sandy if she wanted me to make her a necklace and she said yes so I asked her what color(s) she would like and she said blue and that she wanted something simple. With her being from Colorado and loving to hike I immediately thought of the stacked rocks you see on some hiking trails (called cairns) and also the beautiful lakes out in Colorado so I drew a quick sketch of what I was thinking and then picked out the beads and made the necklace. It ended up being an upside down cairn due to the size of the beads but we both really liked how it turned out!

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A necklace with a silver ball chain and a pendant made up of 3 glass beads that are light blue, blue and dark blue. The necklace is laying on a dark brown wooden table.
The cairn style beaded necklace I made for Sandy.

A lady in her 50's wearing a necklace on a silver chain with 3 blue beads stacked on top of each other. She is wearing a white hoodie and a dark blue t-shirt that says Grow Positive Thoughts on it and has flowers underneath the text.
Sandy wearing the necklace that I made for her šŸ˜ŠšŸ’™

I enjoyed making it so much that it inspired me to make some more necklaces and earrings in a similar style, so get excited for those to start appearing in my Etsy shop in the near future! šŸ„³



Here is the first pair of earrings I made that are inspired by the necklace I made Sandy:

A fishhook earring with a pendant that is made up of a orange bead, a green bead and a purple bead stacked on top of one another to look like a cairyn. The earring is being displayed on a white mannequin's ear.
The cairyn style earring I made with orange, green and purple beads.


You can buy them here:


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