Blecch

Hi, guess what? There's a new digital camera residing in our household, but I have yet to use it! Why, you ask? Because it's never here! Or, rather, I should say it's never here when I want to take pictures and post them to this blog! So I present to you some crappy beads uploaded from the scanner. Again. And blurry, again.

Doesn't matter, really, since they turned out so poorly. I've been wanting and wanting to make some Tyvek beads, since I've seen some that looked so pretty and sparkly. Did all the research, got the Tyvek, no heat gun, but, hey, I have a soldering iron! So I painted my Tyvek, rolled it onto bamboo skewers, and used the soldering iron to make it all nice and melty. The beads didn't look a thing like what I've seen in other places, but I really liked the finished effect. Well, I should have left well enough alone.

Instead, I found out how inexpensive heat guns can be, so went out and got one last night. Came home and just HAD to use it on the beads I'd made. Ugh! Put some pretty embossing powder on them. Eeww! Tied some fibers around them. Pee-oo! Fiber stinks when it's burning and dripping onto a hardwood floor. Wound some wire with beads on it left over from another project, and melted the beads. Like I said, I should have left well enough alone. I just took those babies and went from unique to ugly. Trust me on this-- they look much better in the picture than in real life.

These are the beads I could get off the skewers. The rest were stone-dead, and had to be trashed. Ah, well, such is life. Had lots of fun experimenting, though. I was melting everything that was meltable, just to see what would happen.

Have some more Tyvek painted and drying, and I'm bound and determined to get some lovely, nice beads made. Think I won't roll the Tyvek strips so tightly to the skewer, and once it's melted, I'm leaving it alone! Except for embellishing. But without using more heat!

P.S. I have a Theme Song-- "Tiny Bubbles," and I canNOT get it out of my head right now! I sing it to myself and anyone within hearing range when I'm feeling stressed, and it works. How can anyone stay stressed if they're singing "Tiny Bubbles?"