Under The Lindens

[...] I'm now feeling better - hurray!!! - I thought I'd post a bit about my process in making paper beads. I started out by experimenting with old magazine pages but decided I wanted more [...]

[...] is going to be a very short post to just say a quick hello and post a couple of photos of the paper beads I've been having such fun making. I'm thinking of making them in bulk to sell as supplies (I [...]

[...] local Council and am attempting to follow my dream full time so here we go, adventures with fabric beads..... These are made from a mixture of fabrics, felt and fibres, I'm kind of leaning towards [...]

[...] Following on from a brief excursion into making fabric beads (to which I will return, oh yes!) I've turned my attention to making yoyos. This decision [...]

[...] 'd ever achieved was simple spacer beads made with short coils wound round various diameters of crochet hook (well, my crochet skills are very rudimentary so those had to "come in handy" for [...]

[...] that?!) I've used PVA glue and it's worked brilliantly. Initially I was winding them round a crochet hook but got confuzzled with getting them so that I could still thread some wire or tiger tail [...]

[...] I'm going to do some ovals very soon... Some of my lovely satin, photographed on one of my maternal grandma's lesson plan books. More satins. The two on the left were made by sandwiching a fine green [...]

[...] is just breathtaking. And I am well pleased with how good this photograph done on my maternal Grandma's lesson plan book looks. And to sign out with, here's something completely different! The [...]

[...] ://www.etsy.com/shop/doubleddesign - see my previous post for details. I've just bought some nephrite jade and some tumble chip Baltic amber from her, I know when they arrive (and when I feel up to [...]

[...] aforesaid strand of green dyed magnesite - yes it really is that stunning colour. Some lovely nephrite jade ovals. Some amber chips - I've never used amber before, I think I could become addicted, the [...]

[...] there and was passing it on my way back... I love second hand markets, charity shops and jumble sales, I lose all track of time when I'm browsing them. I get a huge kick out of rummaging and [...]

[...] exaggeration but not much.) Back in the mists of time, when there were still such things as jumble sales, I used to attend as many as I could find and as well as buying designer labels to spruce up [...]