22 December 2010

Bead Christmas decorations

Bead Christmas decorations

Big jewellery is in. But it goes out, or breaks, or you accidentally buy far more necklaces than you have necks. If you have costume jewellery you don’t wear, recycle it into Christmas decorations. Dangly earrings can be hung on the tree as they are, and several necklaces can be fastened together to drape around a small-ish tree. If you have bead jewellery you can unstring it to create lots of different things. Tie a knot in some string, thread on a large bead and some smaller beads and tie the end in a loop to create some nice simple decorations like these.

Happy Christmas!

Thread beads onto pipe cleaners instead and you can bend them to create spiral or star shaped decorations. If you have very small beads and thin wire, you can make more intricate shapes, and maybe some butterflies and dragonflies.

Dragonfly made from beads

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