How to make a paper bead necklace?

This paper bead necklace is super easy and fun to make. Here is what you need:

Decopatch paper, Decopatch glue (or other varnish glue like ModPodge),
cotton paper beads, ribbon, wooden sticks, needle, glue pencil.

Tear pieces of Decopatch paper.

Tear them even smaller as we'll be working on
small paper beads so there will be less creases.

Take a wooden stick and stick it through the paper bead.
You can purchase the cotton paper balls in your local craftshop.

Put some glue in the lid of the jar.

Put some glue on the bead.

Dip your glue pencil in the glue and then pick up a tiny piece of paper with it. Stick it onto the bead and put some more glue over the piece of paper.
Then repeat until the bead is completely covered.

Let 'em dry.

I you like 'em shiny, then add another layer of varnish glue.

When they are dry, remove the beads from the sticks.

String the beads onto the ribbon.

And you're ready to go out!

I'll be giving this necklace away among all the blogcomments. So if you like to win this, please do leave a comment. Make sure that I know where I can find you when you win! :) The winner will be announced nex week! :)

Ripple dreams... part 1

After finishing my Babette blanket, I have been pondering if I should continue with my Granny squares blanket or start my Ripple blanket.
The yarn has been sitting here for ages and my hands have been itching a lot to start using it.

When I saw Jess' blanket in her creative space the other day, I knew I would start my own. So, off to Attic24 to find the pattern. I love Lucy's blog. Everything about it makes me happy.
It's colorful, happy and it's just comfortable to spend some time there once in a while. Besides that, Lucy is a lovely person and her work is very inspirational & I'm certainly not the only one who thinks that way. The first step is to copy the instructions into a word file and make the pics a bit smaller so that I don't have to print a whole book.
The instructions are fabulous & I can't wait to get started. Well, I suppose this is a start already but for me the adventure starts when I pick up my hook and make a little test square...

Things that make me happy...

The seedpods I found while walking the other day.
Can't wait to plant them and wait 'till they grow so I can see what they'll look like...
Seeing this lovely hyacinth grow... (and I love the smell too)
A lovely package that arrived in the mail...
Thank you, Monika! I love it all!Happy friday everyone! :)

My creative space

Yay, we're back playing 'my creative space' with Kirsty over at Kootoyoo's. I love this meme and it's great to see what others are up to. Although the group has grown rather large that I don't have time to check 'em all out. I just click on a few links randomly and that is great fun!

This week, I'm working on a custom feeling for Renovia from EndlessWhimsy. She asked me to make a feeling that reminds her of her grandmother who passed away recently.
I asked her some adjectives so I could think about it. When I looked at each and every of the adjectives, I sensed the feeling moved.
I think she was a person who got moved by many things and that she also had the ability to move people by who she was. Therefore, I wanted something with lines that seemed to move. Fat and thin lines, wide and narrow... something like a seventies wallpaper.After I suggested this to Renovia, she let me know she loved the idea. So then I wanted to draw the feeling for her so she could picture better what was in my head.
A few weeks ago, I got a beautifully wrapped gift in my mailbox that Camille from Papermode on Etsy send me.It's a handembroidered moleskin - superpretty! But I have this love/hate relationshop with moleskins and journals. I don't have the ability to write pretty or draw well so I always feel I'm ruïning them when I use them.
But I decided I will use it to draw my custom work in and so I did...
I hardly ever draw so I really forced myself and I actually try to justify my drawing by writing next to it 'this is not a zebra'. I think I need a bit more confidence to draw really...
A look in perspective...
And now to execute the plan - I like claying much better! :)So this is what I got so far. I haven't attached the 'movements' to the clay yet as I first want to get Renovia's opinion on it. I think it looks great! :)

Want to show you creative space? Hop over to Kootoyoo's to play! It's fun! :)

A little teaser...

How fast time flies! Next monday, the 1st of February, Anna will list some new designs from our collaboration project in her shop. Here are some sneak previews...
I cropped the pictures that Anna send me. Sorry for being so cruel! :)

Flickr Favorites

1. Wall Light, 2. Wall Sketch 1, 3. Wall Art Reusable Wall Stencils. Spring Songbirds on a Branch. Beautiful wall stencils by Cutting Edge Stencils., 4. The Great Wall of China

Hehe, can you guess what my search term on Flickr was? :)
I did try to find a nice variety though and actually I love all of these pictures!

Look at my favorite mosaic from last week. My love for paper & typography all in one! :)

If you like to play this week, make your mosaic and add a link to your blogpost (NOT your blog please) or Flickr in Mister Linky (click on the button below and fill in your name with the link to your blogpost or Flickr picture).

Local artist exposition

We went to a small exhibition of local artist in a cultural center and I'd like to share some work with you. It was a hommage to Toon Thijs who lived and worked in the town. Unfortunately he passed away last year. His ceramic work is quirky and fun. Big round heads and upper body and blue eyes were his signature. He often transferred fairytale figures into his work.
But there was also work of some of his friends featured.

This is work by Lebuïn D'Haese.
She combines terracotta, wood and bronze.

Sandra Vanspauwen works a lot with porcelain in combination
with ceramic clay and focusses on light objects.Didier Bourguignon
There was not more info on the artist to be found except his name.I find the detail in his work very pretty!

Patty Wouters
International known Belgian ceramist.
I love the composition of these crackled clay plaques.The detail is so beautiful too.

There was more work to see but I didn't take pictures of it all.
Hope you enjoyed this little visit to the exposition.