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Old 2014-10-30, 12:07pm
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Default Turn beads into mini-ornaments for Xmas?

Every time I see those stupid mini-ornaments made by the gazillions in sweat shops, poorly made, poorly painted or stained and looking like the mass produced crap that they are they just irritate the heck out of me. I remember when my mom had some teeny German made ornaments that those crappy ones are obviously patterned after and they were so detailed, so perfect. The only way you could mistake one for the other is if you were nearly blind or really far away.

Anyway, the next logical thought is that beads would make great mini-ornaments, of course. And now I am also sure that I can't be anywhere near the 1st person to think so, so what is your favorite was of making a bead into an ornament? Anyone got pictures?
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Old 2014-10-30, 12:27pm
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All of the beads I don't give to BoC or sell, I make into wind chimes.

Basically, get some copper tubing, drill some holes in it, string some beads, bits of fusing failures and short sections of copper tubing onto wire and viola!

I have some put away, so I'll try and get them out to photo later today.
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Old 2014-10-30, 1:44pm
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Here is a link to my old FREE peppermint tutorial if anyone wants:

http://www.lampworketc.com/forums/sh...ght=peppermint
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Old 2014-10-30, 7:32pm
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I saw some icicles made from beads at a gift shop last weekend. Maybe something like that or "totem poles"?

Robin, the peppermints are perfect, by the way.

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Old 2014-10-30, 10:20pm
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I made these.....




Made the top loop on a mandrel without bead release, then threaded the beads on and glued the bottom piece on.

Sorry about the pictures being so big.....
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Old 2014-10-30, 11:32pm
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sooo pretty!! I can picture a small tree with just these..
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Old 2014-10-31, 3:50am
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Susan, those are great.

OOO, you could also make Christmas trees similarly with all base beads green or "silver" and raised dots representing bulbs on the tree. A bit meta

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Old 2014-10-31, 3:55am
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Susan, those are fantastic!!!!!! What a great idea!
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Old 2014-10-31, 6:13am
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Cool ornaments, Susan!
I made a tree like this for each of my 2 adult kids for Christmas a few years ago.
It took a few months of planning, capping & coring.
I dumped the beads into a big pile and let them take alternate turns picking out their beads one by one.
It was fun!







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Old 2014-10-31, 6:58am
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Jayne - wow!!
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I make an ornament for my kids and grand daughter each year. Last year was one like Susan's (made the same way) then a dog, fish and Santa hat (on large cone) then wire them up. For my cousin this past year I made icicles.
My kids/grand baby love getting them.
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Thanks all!! Those are awesome Jayne!! Great way to use hollows too. I did some trees too, the same way.



I use metal calipers to keep track of the disc sizes so I don't end up with a bunch the wrong size.
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Old 2014-10-31, 1:12pm
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Boy those trees are cute.

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Old 2014-10-31, 1:47pm
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Thanks!! The trees or any of the smaller ornaments can be worn as necklaces too. I didn't think of it, a buyer wanted a tree made into a necklace. Makes a nice holiday necklace.
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Those are such beautiful ornaments! And Jayne, I love the idea of your children picking through and choosing beads one by one
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Old 2014-10-31, 5:08pm
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Love em you guys, your designs are beautiful.
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Old 2014-11-02, 7:33am
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You folks inspired me. I made him a little black top hat but the brim shattered off.

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Old 2014-11-04, 10:17am
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Here is one I made last year. We travel quite a bit during the holidays and this is very portable. Ornaments are wired on. I made a little box for it to fit in. All I have to do is take it out of the box and put the tree topper back on. Voila!
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All of the beads I don't give to BoC or sell, I make into wind chimes.

Basically, get some copper tubing, drill some holes in it, string some beads, bits of fusing failures and short sections of copper tubing onto wire and viola!

I have some put away, so I'll try and get them out to photo later today.

I would love to see your wind chimes
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Old 2014-11-09, 1:53pm
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This is an ornament I made for the office ornament exchange
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I would love to see your wind chimes
Thanks! I've got my first holiday market coming up in a couple of weeks, so I'll get them out and take some pix.
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Old 2014-11-09, 7:47pm
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Norma I love your ornament. You have such a sense of aesthetics.
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Old 2014-11-09, 10:04pm
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