Crocheted Balls
One of my passions is crochet. The only craft where I enjoy reading and following intricate instructions. I remember first crocheting with my hand when I was six years old. I crocheted over these wood beads, with cotton yarn and I thought they would go very nicely with paper beads. Kayla, chose the beads to go with it and made matching earrings. She used the medium olive size beads (1/2 inch long) in very nice tones of yellow and orange.
She used the red crocheted balls for this necklace.
Another nice addition to paper beads would be fabric covered beads.
She also made earrings to match
This piece can go with a simple linen suit, definitely wearable to the office, don’t you think?
Upcoming Posts: How to crochet with paper beads.
Read MoreKumihimo Bracelets
Kumihimo just sounds complicated, I recently found out that it’s not. Couple of weeks ago, I was at the San Diego Fair and happen to stop by at the San Diego Weaver’s Guild booth, check out their website it is interesting the classes and programs that they offer. It took a whole 5 minutes for me to learn it there, my video is longer. I made a few bracelets and even incorporated paper beads, after all this is paperbeads the blog 🙂
You need: craft foam 3 inches square, cut out a circle in the center of the foam and 2 slits an inch apart in all four sides, total of eight slits. Please refer to above image for slit placements.
Here’s what I did with paper beads.
I just added different shaped paper beads at the closure on this one.
To add beads to the braid itself, this video tutorial I think, explains it best:
It is a really cool friendship bracelets for grown ups 😉 How about kumhimo with paper beads dangles like this one for Idea # 6? Eveline has also great design ideas for paper beads here. For those of you who have paper bead ideas in your blog or website please email me so I can put a link here.
These look really nice worn together, and had lots of compliments!
School Supplies for Kids
Every year in the month of June, I have pledged to donate school supplies for underprivileged Filipino kids. Did you know that there are kids in the small provinces that go to school without the necessary school supplies? Do you remember the feeling of opening a box of crayons that promises hours of fun and possibilities? This would be another project for Christmas, coloring books and crayons. With the help of my sister Joann and her husband Jun we distributed notebooks, pencils, paper and crayons to Filipino kids.
Paper Beads and Paper bead making has become a symbol for mostly women in Third World Countries to make a difference in their lives.
I grew up in a small coastal town where my father served as a judge and remember going to school with children who are even sometimes bare foot. I felt so guilty wearing my blue rubber boots with matching umbrella. June is when the classes open and also a very rainy month. So maybe, rain coats and umbrellas next year 🙂
Reminder: Today is the last day to join the Paper Bead Trade, there are 23 participants! Yay!. It will official close at twelve midnight 12 midnight Pacific Standard Time 🙂
To celebrate July 4th, I was planning on making something of red, white and blue (if there were more than 24 hours in a day), instead, here’s the Patriotic Ladder Bracelet I made last year and sold on etsy.
Upcoming Posts: How to Do Kumihimo Braid, Paper Strings, Tutorial on Button Rings.
Happy 4th of July!
My Paper Beads – Sanja Blagus
Sanja is one of our readers who like me, takes pleasure in taking pictures of her finished paper beads outside, in her garden. As you know, outside in natural day light is the best way to take photos of your jewelry. Sanja made these paper beads out of garden magazines and they came out really pretty, hell000 summer!
Sanja’s other hobby is photography, you can tell she’s having fun with these 🙂 Daisies are such happy flowers, don’t you think?
This bracelet was inspired by one of our tutorials. I wish I have her hands 🙂
I remember Kayla cut out flowers from one of her mother’s garden magazines and made it into earrings.
She also love incorporating shells into her jewelry making, you can read more about it here. The long three strand necklace held by shells is a nice way to use the long paper bead tubes.
I can almost smell the ocean with these colors
I consider this Design Idea # 4 🙂 You can substitute the shells with a 3 strand finding and you don’t even need a clasp, this will just go over your head. She certainly looks fetching don’t you think? Do you have a beach wedding to go to? This would just be perfect!
Any suggestions for Design Idea # 5? It would be greatly appreciated. If you do, just hit the Contact Me link on your right hand side.
Or, if you have a blog or website, leave us a comment with your link.
Tomorrow, is our last day for the Paper Bead Trade, we have about 20 participants right now that includes me (just providing the filler beads and findings), Kayla and my sister Joann.
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