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Who said that making beautiful jewelry has to be difficult and time consuming?  As long as you have the right materials its a cinch!  Today's DIY (Do It Yourself) is the best example, all we had to do was let the pendant shine on its own.  I always used to struggle with this in the past, I thought that if it was easy to make, it didn't actually count as a "design", but guess what?  All I needed to do...

 Is it Friday yet?  No! It's THURSDAY! Thursdays are now my favorite day of the week.  If you haven't heard, we just created a new series called "DIY Thursday", 

 Here in Puerto Rico, we have beautiful weather all year long, we basically only have 1 season. :)  

Happy Thursday! After a whole lot of planning and a little bit of soul searching, we've decided to give our blog a little more structure by committing to a schedule.  From now on you can expect to hear from us every THURSDAY! 

Happy February!  This week's DIY is a special one for us because it incorporates our newest and most sought after material (Tortoise!), as well as one of our favorite techniques.   At the bottom of the page you'll find our YouTube tutorial in both english and spanish :)  

Happy Holidays!  Here at AS we absolutely adore the Christmas season and we're especially excited about this week's DIY Message in a bottle necklace!  As you can see, we've tailored our color choices to red, white and green.  We can't wait to make a dozen of these necklaces to give to our loved ones and significant others.  This is a quick and easy project that shouldn't take longer than 15 minutes to make.

This week, we've created a boho chic necklace perfect for the upcoming holiday season.  The cord we're using is known as Parachute cord or paracord.  The parachute cord is used mosty to make survival bracelets, which are

Who doesn't love a simple hand made bracelet? Macramé has recently come back in style and we just love all the different looks you can create with one simple technique. In the spirit of spreading the love, we've compiled a short video

Hi everyone! We've finally published our first video on our very own YouTube Channel!