I’m on a bit of a personal mission.
We have many different genres of crafts in our store and I field questions about all of them on a daily basis. I’ve also dabbled in a lot of them over the years, but wouldn’t call myself an expert by any stretch of the imagination. My mission right now is to find ways to incorporate as many as I can into my beloved paper crafting.
So far I’ve watercoloured on a background (not a huge stretch for me as I love to use my Distress Oxides to “paint” with). I’ve stitched on a card (so fun! Can’t wait to do it some more!) And I’ve created little clay embellishments for a card (fun, but I prefer to buy my embellishments pre-made to be honest.)
This week – Beads!
We sell pre-made jewelry pieces in our store and we sell a variety of beading kits for kids of all ages. But we don’t sell beads, or jewelry findings, or chains, or anything that one looking to get into jewelry making would need. Sorry, not sorry! That is a rabbit hole we are not prepared to go down at this point. But once upon a time I DID make jewelry! I gave away my containers of beads and findings many, many years ago to a particularly lovely babysitter who was celebrating a birthday. But as I mention in this video, I did find one little packet of beads plus some old necklaces that I tore apart just for this post. Here, take a look.
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