I've been working steadily on a lot of paper beads in the last couple months.  I sold four necklaces at a silent auction for work, and am putting a bunch of it up in seasonal craft fairs (not doing well on that front yet).  

First, eighty-odd beads made from a poster from work:


and a bunch of necklaces made from various flyers/posters from work:







Other stuff at the unsuccessful craft fair:

This is so super cute!  I wonder how well it would work with other types of skirts, too.

Awesome!!  I've been on a huge Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry kick lately.

I used magazine ads (specifically a Tyson's ad from a couple of CookingLight magazines) and rolled them on a pin flag (like these) 'cause that was what I had at hand at work when I started! I measured and cut the triangles by hand (also by rotary cutter); these are 1/2" at the base but I'm also doing a lot of 1" beads too. 

Been mostly hanging around looking at reconstructed clothes since I signed up last October, but this past week I've been making a lot of paper beads, so now I'm posting in here for the first time

One of my dearest friends at work is having a birthday tomorrow, so I made her this necklace out of my new paper bead collection! I think the paper beads look almost like malachite. Just a couple of the better pics of it:

Lovely story, lovely shirt, and lovely photos, too!! 

Simply stunning!!  You're very talented

This is the best thing ever!!  Now I just need to find an awesome zipper...

Thanks for posting this recon!!  It's really pretty I'm going to try it out hopefully sometime soon; I'll have to figure the best place to insert the sleeves-band on my shirt since it's got a print I don't want to totally bisect right through!  I'll try to remember to post a pic...

Super cute!!  The seventeen layers of lace must've taken forever to sew on!