This is one project that we took from ordinary to extraordinary! I found this pair of earrings when I was cleaning out my daughter’s room, Lyra my youngest left for UC San Diego to finish her bachelors and guess what? I just acquired a new studio!
Plastic beads were replaced with paper beads.
This is just lovely [...]
What happens when you just randomly put things together, I mean without thinking about design, really!
Paper beads, wood beads, resin and coconut chips…..
…..make a yummy, chunky bracelet!
One of the fun things Kayla and I like to do on a week end is check out garage sales in our area for some beads that we can “rehab” and incorporate with paper beads. This is one of our finds, vintage red beads with embossed flower and leaves design. The designs on the beads [...]
To me, this looks like what a modern Cleopatra will have on her wrist, a bracelet made up of recycled magazines. I have a penchant for taking inexpensive jewelry apart and replacing them with paper beads. I love the idea of turning ordinary to extraordinary. I call this Cleo’s Bracelet because the little triangle sections [...]
This is another example of turning a piece of jewelry from ordinary to extraordinary with paper beads! Kayla found this wood bracelet at our favorite shopping place – the 99 cents store, you can wear it as it is I guess but then it looks so ordinary, you take out the wood beads and replace [...]
I am a big fan of 99 Cents Store, I love going through their jewelry and taking them apart and use the findings for paper beads! Kayla saw this bracelet with blue plastic beads. You can wear it as it is but again, incorporating paper beads with your jewelry will take it from ordinary to [...]
The pendant on this necklace is from store-bought jewelry that we took apart. We used the small olive shaped paper bead and used the rosary loop technique (please refer to an earlier post) to connect them. This is part of our summer collection that we are working on, perfect for those lazy days….. We have [...]
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