More Tyvek, only I like these better...
These were done with a heat gun...
and these were done with a soldering iron.I still like the soldering iron ones better than the heat gun ones. (Excuse the lapse in grammar, I'm not feeling particularly GC right now. GC= Grammatically Correct. At least my spelling's on target, and I don't use that stupid spell check thingy, either. So there.)(Oh, and I'm rarely PC. I'm usually PI. Figure it out.)
The ones done with a heat gun were also covered in sparkly embossing powder. In order to see a difference, I used a clear embossing powder on the ones done with the soldering iron.
Tip: If anyone makes these and decides to use a soldering iron, KEEP YOUR FACE AWAY FROM THE BEAD while melting the Tyvek. Keep your hair away from it, too, because hair really stinks when it burns.
All in all, I'm very happy with these beads. In fact, I'm about to go paint more Tyvek and make lots more beads in many more colors. Happy beads.
Got a new schedule at work. I now have Sundays and Mondays off, and it'll take some getting used to. I've never minded working Saturdays, so that's not it. What IT is, is the sounds of the neighborhood on a weekday.
Sundays all sound the same-- people working in their yards, kids playing outside, music playing while people wash their cars. I know what Sundays sound like. But weekdays are strange-- even the birds sound different. I'm used to hearing kids walking to school and people leaving for work early in the mornings. It's after that. Everything is dead quiet. It's nerve-wracking, I'm tellin' ya. I kept going out onto the porch to see our ghost-town of a neighborhood.
But there's good news about having a weekday off-- every place a person needs to go is open. Now I can go to the gas company and find out why my bill is 4 times as much as last year. I can understand the 40-60% price increase, but 400%? Come on! So next Monday will see me at my friendly gas company office. Yes, I tried calling, but they told me I'm not the person living in my house. Hah! How do they know? They don't live here! I happen to know that I AM the person living in my house!
Okay. On to making the beads.
Lori finally stopped procrastinating at 9:35 PM
4 Comments:
These are great beads and I like the idea of using embossing powder. You're making me want to go and make beads...as if I had time! Grin!
Those beads are awesome! They would make super cool tassels with seed beads dangling from them...hmmm, where's my heat gun...
Yes! Both of you! Go! Go make beads! Go make them now! Valeri, they hardly take any time at all-- just the paint drying. I liked mine the way they were because of the colors of paint I used, and the melting is fastfastfast. So fast you have to be careful not to melt it all into a little blob on a stick. And mamarox, tassles, yes!!! Absolutely tassles and more tassles, and as many dangly things as you can fit through the bead's hole. I already have some started in fact, and will post them. But both of you-- go make beads now!
I'd like to make tyvek beads as well please!
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