Pails of Paint: beads

Monday, July 29, 2013

Updating the Chandelier with Paper Clips and Beads.

Sometimes, a simple thing can give a bit of change to a room.

I decided I wanted to add a bit of fun in our living room

with some beads on the chandelier.

First I painted the chandelier white, and painted the plastic candlestick covers a French blue.

I found these beads at the craft store on sale for a good price.

The total for them came to about $10.

I put them all on a plate and stirred them to mix them.

There are 5 arms on the chandelier,

so I found 15 paper clips,

5 small ones and 10 slightly larger ones,

and put 4 beads on the smaller ones and 5 beads on the larger ones.

I randomly

strung most of the rest of the beads on a long flexible elastic string.

The rest of the beads, I strung onto a sturdy wire.

The wire piece was then wrapped around the centerpiece of the chandelier.

The little paperclips were hung on each of the looping arms of the chandelier

and two of each of the larger paper clips were hung from each of the candlestick dishes.

The long string of beads had been tied together,

and I carefully draped them first along the inside little paper clips

and then from the larger paper clips,

looping and draping and rearranging until it looked evenly spaced.

The beads and new lighter color give a fun, fresh look to the chandelier.

My daughters especially like the new look,

like little bits of diamonds sparkling from the light.

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Saturday, April 13, 2013

Embroidery Hoop Mobile

Here is a fun craft to do, especially for a girl's room or a school room

(although the same concept could be used for eagles, seagulls, airplanes, etc., and used for a boy).

I printed up some butterflies from The Graphic Fairy website:

some in black and white and some in color.

(Graphics Fairy: black and white butterflies)
(Graphics Fairy: colored butterflies)
(Background Fairy: Turquoise butterfly with Spots)

My daughter painted the black and white ones with watercolors and cut them out one day for her at-home art class.

Afterward we painted the embroidery hoops (which we picked up for a good price at a second hand store) with purple.

I lined them up and drilled a hole through the base of them, lining up all three of them to make sure the holes were even. I did the same for the top as well for two of them; the screw tightener was at the top of the other.

I then drilled the number of holes I wanted to hang butterflies from in the bottoms of the hoops...

and some in the tops of the hoops.

We then used some purple wire along with some beads from a friend and randomly placed them along the wire, wrapping the wire back through each bottom bead to hold them in place.

We strung butterflies randomly on the wires (a hole had been poked through each with a sewing needle).