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"plaintext": "As alluded to in my last post I have been making paper beads. I should say again as I made hundreds of them a few years ago, I filled a good half dozen of those 36 compartment bead boxes. I tend to go all in when I start something and then drop it and not even look at it again for ages."
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"plaintext": "I’d been using some of my older beads to make jewellery when I got the urge to start making them again. Fortunately I still had a stack of old magazine pages from my previous endeavours."
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"plaintext": "They are ridiculously easy to make and it is so relaxing just sitting rolling strips of paper up. I like that you have no idea how they are going to come out until they are finished. I like to give mine a couple of coats of glaze (I use Diamond Glaze) and it completely changes the look of them when they’ve got a gloss coating on."
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"plaintext": "These are mostly magazine pages though there is one set made from a DIY store leaflet and another made from hair dye instructions. The tools I use for rolling are just bamboo cocktail sticks with the pointy ends cut off and a little slit cut into them to hold the end of the paper. It’s a properly cheap set up but the results don’t look cheap and I think you’d be hard pressed to tell that they are made from old magazine pages."
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