Paper Beads For Japanese Girl
I just fell in love with this little Japanese Girl Pendant my daughter picked up for me from Forever 21. I know they have cute stuff, I was not quite sure they have jewelry that will appeal to me. She said it reminded her of me ( I must have looked like this at one point in my life 🙂 It is I think painted on ceramic and hangs on a silver color chain.
I named the little Japanese Girl Bochi, my pet name for my baby grand daughter Lana (I hope it does not translate to anything bad)! I love this little necklace but it looks like it needs something. The chain looks so bare and boring begging to be decorated. Since I’m adding a new category to this blog Ordinary To Extraordinary, little Bochi will be the first project to go in that category. Here are my two choices: Double sided patterned paper (my Idea # 8)
And, Rice bag! (Idea # 7). I was so excited when I found this bag sitting on the shelf of my pantry. I did not remember buying it. Organic brown rice? It turned out that my daughter Lyra has gone organic on me 🙂 I don’t mind as long as they come in pretty bags like this.
So, I will get busy today cutting them up and rolling them into beads and then we will see which one will be a match for Little Bochi necklace.
Upcoming Posts: Poster Paper Bracelet, Turquoise Jewelry, Guess Black Paper Bag.
Paper Bead Trade Update: The necklace kits for the Fall Trade has been mailed. Yay!
Paper to Paper Bead Idea #6
What kind of paper makes nice paper beads? Texture, prints, text, glossiness and most specially color! Yes, to me it’s texture and color mainly. The battery for my flip video camera came and with it is the Instruction Guide in beautiful turquoise. My husband said “Oh good you are reading the manual” my daughter quipped ” she’s not, it’s paper bead potential” 🙂 I saw 8 mm turquoise beads in perfect blue color, glossy and just the right thickness.
The dimensions are: 1/4 inch at the base by 8 inches long
Rolled, Glued and Glazed
Beautiful turquoise beads !
Project Ideas; Shaker Ring (cha-cha), baby boy id bracelet, mom to be bracelet……..
Read MoreVampire’s Blood Beads
In the spirit of Halloween Kayla decided to make blood colored paper beads using nail polish. Mixed with garnet fire polished beads it looks vintage add beaded spider pendant, pretty scary don’t you think?
It is just scrap booking paper with the different color of reds and cut up into strips like this:
After applying glaze, paint it with red nail polish
It’s okay if you have some gob of nail polish to make it look like blood 🙂 Below are the materials; black bead caps, 8mm firepolished beads and scary looking spider
We want to scare you up a little bit…..
We had fun today, a lot of kids came to our little shop trick or treating (will post some pics later)
Happy Halloween everyone!
Paper To Paper Bead Idea #5
When you see me looking at a poster, most likely I am admiring the colors and texture of the paper. There is always something going on in down town Glendora and we get fliers and posters of all sorts and this is one of them. It’s so funny how Kayla and I gets excited about posters, junk mail and fliers. Well, here’s why…….
Kayla got to work cutting them up in different size strips.
I love how they turned out, beautiful colors of merlot.
Paper Bead Trade Update: We are preparing the beads and the kits, hopefully to be mailed out on or before Saturday. Unfortunately we cannot show you the bead soup mix because of our experience from last time where it was difficult to apportion the beads to everyone.
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