Beaded Cards

For Christmas one of the presents I received was a Beading Encyclopedia, from my Uncle and Aunt. It is full of amazing things on how to use jigs and looms, how to design earrings and necklaces, which wires are best to use, different project ideas and much more.

One of the projects that particularly took my interest was beading on to cardboard or material to use as notebook covers. I gave it a shot, using cardboard. When I was finished I had the idea of making it into a card, instead of a book cover. As it turned out, it didn't seem to be such a bad idea, so I then tried other designs out of my head. Below are the results.

The dark blue one, second from right, was the first one I tried with the pattern out of the book. The design of the brown one I stole from another card I had seen, and the pink, blue and yellow are of my own thinking.

You can see the cards alot better if you click on the photo to enlarge.

Scoubidou

When I was younger I went through a phase of doing scoubidou and bought lots of the threads and a book on how to make various things with it. It only lasted for about 2-3 months and ever since then I have had it sitting in one of my drawers doing nothing. Two days ago, out of the blue, Robert remembered about it and asked me to get it out to teach him. So I took him and Dan yesterday afternoon and attempted to show them how it works. I hadn't done it for several years, so had forgotten how. I got as far as wrapping two different coloured strands on a pencil. Anyway, after I played around with it trying all the different ways to get to the next step the boys had lost interest. They went outside to play and I struggled along without them for a long time. Then finally, I got it!

This morning I showed them the steps, but they weren't able to do it for ages. We had three going at once ~ one for each of us. As I worked on mine they practiced the pattern. Suddenly Rob yelled out "I DID IT!!" and Dan followed suit shortly after. I was very proud :) They have been at it all day; Dan, however, was obliged to pull out for now. He pulls the strands too hard and therefore snaps them, cutting the project too short.

Well, after that large explanation, I think it's time to show you the photos!

New Hobbies...

Recently I have started a new hobby; beading earrings. It is so simple that you don't need a pattern, even though you can do teared and other types.

So, I have done around five pairs of which Jess bought two :) And the next local markets I shall try to sell more.

Here are photos of a few of my creations.