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"A person who finds an interesting hobby finds happiness."

We are totally committed to making beautiful paper beads from magazines, newspapers, catalogs or any kind of paper that has become "old news." It is a very fascinating and engaging craft and has been around for many years. It is not just for kids anymore, the many things you can do, the possibilities are endless.

05 December 2011 ~ 3 Comments

Etsy Sunday!

Etsy Sunday!

Here’s a few pieces that is going to be on my Etsy shop, I hope you will get ideas and create your own.  There is nothing more rewarding for both the giver and the recipient than a hand made gift.  Enjoy!

day # 224 – Blue Ice

day #225  Bluebells

day #226 Romancing the Stones

day #227 Paper Bead [...]

27 November 2011 ~ 3 Comments

Snow Flake Ornament – day 223

Snow Flake Ornament – day 223

Snow Flakes just like stars and Santas signals winter, holidays and Christmas!  The snowflake finding from Beadsmith makes it easy to create snowflakes in different sizes and a nice way to display your paper beads and use up your leftover beads.

Here’s a video……..

Let’s go green this Holiday Season, no matter how small it’s a good [...]

26 November 2011 ~ 2 Comments

Azine Pendants – day 222

Azine Pendants – day 222

Introducing………Azine Pendants – a totally cool pendant that can be worn by itself or as many as you want!  I call them Azine because they are one hundred percent from the pages of a magazine.

This Holiday Season, it is not only eco – nomical to make your own presents but you are also giving the [...]

20 November 2011 ~ 2 Comments

Fit for A Queen Tiara by Rhiah Clachir

Fit for A Queen Tiara by Rhiah Clachir

Carolyn Dawn Good (pen name Rhiah Clachir), paper bead artist/jewelry maker who incorporates wire and paper into her one of a kind designs.  You will find her exquisite designs at www.thebeadrollson.com.  I suggested that she comes up with a tiara and she did in a matter of hours.

Carolyn has been doing this for years and [...]

15 November 2011 ~ 3 Comments

Beaded Key Rings – day 221

Beaded Key Rings – day 221

We have a fun project today, using key rings as jewelry links that you can make into bracelets or necklace.  Usually, big bold links are expensive!  Wire wrapping key rings with wire and adding beads to it transforms them into designer like jewelry.

Enjoy the how-to video.

I love turning ordinary household items into jewelry, they challenged [...]

11 November 2011 ~ 2 Comments

Felted Pair – day 220

Felted Pair – day 220

Do you sometimes feel like painting your toes in different colors?  Well, these felted earrings not your usual “pair”.  I wanted to make something fun my way of saying ; don’t take life too seriously! The tiny round paper beads in citrus colors were the perfect match.

Wear them with purple sweater and you are ready [...]

08 November 2011 ~ 4 Comments

Hand Painted Kokeshis – day 219

Hand Painted Kokeshis – day 219

These hand painted kokeshi dolls (Japanese dolls) is another work of art by Manou.  If you remember, Manou made the matryoskas in a similar fashion.  I just loved these little faces they are soooo cute!

They remind me of that designer fragrance with the cute Japanese faces:)  Something that can be worn by women of all [...]

27 October 2011 ~ 5 Comments

True Red Mixed Media – day 218

True Red Mixed Media – day 218

The Painted Beads are fun to work with!  This is one of the reasons I am fascinated with paper beads; you can paint them, glazed them, ink them, stamped………  Here’s on that is a true Mixed Media piece, one that you can surely feel proud to wear!

The wooden focal bead and silver accents can be [...]

25 October 2011 ~ 3 Comments

Finger Crochet – day 217

Finger Crochet – day 217

I think, that in order for you to teach something effectively is to put yourself in that person’s shoes.  Having said that, I was experimenting on how to effectively demonstrate how to crochet with wire using your fingers!  It is sometimes intimidating  when you have to work with a tool.  It is really simple as [...]

23 October 2011 ~ 3 Comments

Gold Lace Bracelet – day 216

Gold Lace Bracelet – day 216

This is the gold version of wire lace crochet, this time I used tiny olive shaped paper beads and accented with 3mm tiger’s eye beads.  Mixing natural stones with paper beads will just take your paper bead jewelry up a notch!  I am sharing with you a video I did on a kit I have [...]