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!
Gold Paper Bead Necklace
After weighing all our options, we decided on pairing these beautiful gold paper beads with jet black swarovski crystals. I think this will look good with little back dress or plain white shirt with jeans, we finished it off with black pleather cord. As I mentioned in earlier post the beads were made out of gold label box and were tightly rolled with metal paper bead roller.
The pleather cord give is that casual look and you can easily just wear gold button earrings to go with it.
We could just have made it with the paper beads strung all around in a 16 inch necklace, but I thought this gives it more a not too formal look
Can you tell they’re paper beads?
We have enough beads left over for a pair of earrings and bracelet, or maybe another necklace.
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