“Who Are the People In Your Neighborhood?”
I have a guest blogger today, Kayla Gahuman of Aubrey’s a nice little shop which carries beads, gem stones, findings and our paper beads!
Aubrey’s Beads is located right in the middle of Glendora’s Historic Downtown. Our little downtown is full of unique shops, boutiques and resturaunts.
Welcome to Downtown Glendora!
Not only is our little downtown a fun and relaxing place to spend your free time, it is also very beautiful.
Our mainstreet is lined with these georgeous Gum-Drop Trees
Here are some of the shops along Glendora Ave.
This is the Glendora Plaza Promanade
.. where Aubrey’s is located!
This is a little friend that I found sunbathing in front of our store 🙂
Our Downtown is very active within the community and always seems to host different events.
This year’s “Trick O Treat” event in our downtown was a hit
Here are some pictures of our Little Trick O Treaters!!!
The Annual Holiday Stroll is coming up as well, with the “Tree Lighting Ceremony”, November 20th 2009, 6pm-9pm
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Metal Paper Bead Roller by Nem
His full name is Nemesio, shortened by family and friends to Jun (for Junior) or Nem for Nemesio, his first name. He came up with coated metal roller with bamboo handles to make paper bead making a lot easier. We are still making the all bamboo roller (original), but if you want to make the small rounder shaped paper beads, Nem would suggest to use the metal roller with the bamboo handles.
The strip of triangle shaped paper should be longer and only about 1/4 inch wide at the base. I would like to demonstrate how to measure and cut the paper in next post.
My Joan tied pink ribbons around it to show her “pink” side. Leave me a comment or email me if you know someone whose life is touched by breast cancer and I would gladly send them one.
Our very first show at the Pasadena Bead and Design
Our very first show in Pasadena! We were happy with the results, a lot of people stopped by, bought, commented on our beautiful paper bead jewelry. The paper beads hand made by men and women in the Philippines are so well made can often be mistaken for shells or real beads.
One of our displays that garnered so much attention is the paper bead skirt that Kayla made. Our booth was so small we did not have any place for it we just had to prop it up on our table.
It was such a fun event, I just wish I had more time to go around and look in other booths, there were just so many beads, pearls, gem stones even beads made out cloth! I wish I took pictures, maybe next time…..
Across from our booth is the Ckoop Beads, I will be writing about her in my next post, Sara makes amazing enameled copper beads, pendants and findings.
Not far from me, was a table of vintage lucite beads and did a little shopping. I was like a kid in a candy store, well they do look like candies.
It is so hard to keep my hand off them and make them into something, most likely with paper beads.
I could just imagine a bunch of paper beads cascading down the petals of these beauties.
Just perfect for fall
These beads are huge, I have a Wilma necklace or bracelet in mind for this one.
Something blue……
This will have to wait for Easter.
A necklace or a bracelet? How about earrings?
Trick or Treat?
So many beads, so little time.
Read MoreThe Making of Paper Beads
Making paper beads is a nice hobby for kids and adults alike can be pretty addicting actually. The love of making paper beads and the need to augment their income is how the community of men and women in the Philippines came together to put up this little cottage industry. You have the best of both worlds when you love what you do and get paid doing it. In just less than a year that they have been doing this, the results and the response of the public has been pretty amazing. The following images will give you a glimpse on how paper beads are being mass produced.
Jun cuts the paper in this heavy duty paper cutter
This procedures requires precision and practice. Jun almost cut his finger off when he forgot to put the safety latch on, definitely not for kids!
Strips of paper from magazines neatly cut up ready to be rolled
The bundled strips of paper is then distributed to the workers to be made into paper beads of different shape and sizes.
Joann designs the shapes and sizes of the finished paper beads
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