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Our friend Elise generously gave us a huge bag of costume jewelry. There were so many that Jaylene couldn’t possibly wear them all, so we took some apart to do crafty fun.
Jaylene’s is in process on the left.
And here’s what I made:
It’s a sail boat, if perhaps you couldn’t immediately tell 😉
We can’t decide which is more fun, sorting the little beads into containers or actually creating with them. It’s pretty much a tie 😉
Last year a friend of ours introduced us to the joy of fuse beads. One brand is Perler Beads, which Jaylene can not for the life of her remember. She insists on calling them curler beads. We spent the weekend making up these little goodies while Jayden was napping.
Jaylene’s first creation, her own design:
My first creation, from the Perler Bead website:
My design of a J
And Jaylene had to do one too
Jaylene’s design of a star
I bought the beads because I’d picked up a very cool book. We thumbed through the book when we started creating, but decided to try easy ones first. The beads were outrageously priced and I’ll have to look for a discount bulk jar when we’re in Canada. I’ll need to get a larger pegboard so that Jaylene can do tinkerbell and ariel.
I need to be able to figure out how to fuse them together more easily. I’m sure my difficulties are mainly because it requires using an iron. Our iron got more action this weekend than it has in it’s entire life!
Glitter circle frames by Graziela Mendes and glitter scalloped frame by LJD
Click on the image to see a larger size.
Combining efforts for a swap at Go Make Something and using some goodies recently sent to me from Far Flung Craft
Everything’s okay now. Jayden woke up Jan 1st with the right side of his head all swollen and nasty crusties everywhere. We took him straight away to the nearest largest hospital as all the smaller clinics in our town were closed. They didn’t have an eye doctor on hand and offered to send us to their Taipei branch by ambulance or we could drive ourselves to a different, yet closer hospital. We chose to drive ourselves and then spent all morning in the emergency room. He’s got some sort of eye infection, probably pink eye. Poor little guy. He’s doing much better now with the antibiotics. They say what you end up doing on New Year’s day is what you’ll do all year round. So I guess the rest of our year will be finding out things are O.K. 😉 Happy New year y’all.
I promise not to post the nasty eye pictures, but here’s a few more holiday layouts.
Quick page by retrodiva.
Paper from the free Two Peas kit.
Another weeds and wildflowers quick page
Julie K in Taiwan 