inspired by the beads themselves:

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d196/fusionflute09/100_1827.jpg
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d196/fusionflute09/100_1828.jpg

and inspired by a post that i don't have a link to, but it was their first "attempt" at memory wire, which was better than ANY of my attempts, let alone the first:

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d196/fusionflute09/100_1829.jpg
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d196/fusionflute09/100_1830.jpg

comment, please!

it seems i've been posting quite a bit lately...maybe because i actually have time now that its summer!

all earrings:


blue:


black:


green/black:


bracelets:


closer up:



more bracelets:


green/yellow:


my favorite, blue/green:


the green/clear/black one is a bit too small for my wrist, but you get the idea.

thanks for looking, please comment!

the bracelets have beads that are drilled on both sides, so they have 2 pieces of beadalon through them

black (beads given to me by my oma, my guess is they used to be a bracelet, anyways) and blue (i can't remember where i got them...):


the earrings both have magnetic hematite, it sticks to the other beads, even in the other earrings, and to the chain i used:






and the necklace.  this is my favorite, i remade it from a necklace someone was going to purchase, but never did.  the old one had the hematite disks that are in the earrings now (and just sitting around) and was much heavier.  this is a gift to my guy friend who just graduated from high school.  he was our drum major, and he says he can never find a necklace that he likes:

and on me (he's a skinny guy, so it'll be a bit longer on him):



thanks for looking!

as always, please comment!

sorry for the bad quality pics, but i had to use a different setting on my camera since its dark.

first pair, all green and silver:



green/black and silver:



black and silver:



black:



and my favorite, diet stewart's root beer with a black/grey cat's eye bead:




please comment!

i guess it could be modified to be taller and hold necklaces, too 

the finished product!


Tutorial

Materials
toilet paper rolls
duct tape roll
more duct tape (grey will do)
scissors
colored duct tape/scrapbook paper/origami paper/fabric/etc.

Step 1:  run out of duct tape and toilet paper


Step 2:  cut half-circles out from the duct tape roll exactly across from each other, large enough to fit a toilet paper roll halfway in (if you tend to be a perfectionist like me, you can use a compass [the kind you use in geometry] to make it almost exact)


Step 3:  tape toilet paper rolls to duct tape roll until a nuclear bomb couldn't get them apart (you might run out of tape again)



Step 4:  cover in colored duct tape/scrapbook paper/origami paper/fabric/etc. until all original tape and cardboard is no longer visible.


Step 5:  display your bracelets!



please post your results if you choose to make one!

sorry in advance for blurry "action shots".  it's hard to take pictures of your own ear.

the beads on this first one were actually taken off extra bead trim my mom used for her curtains. 

side by side:


on (boy am i pale, you can hardly see the beads!):


with hand behind so you can see there are, in fact, beads there:



green and black, my two favorite colors!
side by side:


on:


of course, please comment!

my hands are killing me, and my eyes aren't used to looking at such small things...

side by side:


better representation of the colors:


action! (excuse the messy hair)


as always, comments are appreciated!

okay, this is my first wallet made of actual duct tape, plus i did it in about 5-10 minutes...be nice please!
the colors in the first pic are the most accurate, the others are a bit off

back:


front:


open:


inside:


comments wanted!

i think this is where this goes, mods if not please move it

first one, relatively simple, good for holding money and that's about it
front:

back/closure:

open:

inside:


and the second one, it has pockets for cards and a clear on on the left for a driver's license once i can finally get it
front (the back looks pretty much the same, and closes the same way as the first wallet):

open:

money!


comments welcomed, i will be trying to make more wallets out of different paper to seem like an almost non-band geek    but that might not happen

also, summer break=swimming, but that's another story.

my neighbors are great, and most have little kids too young to stay by themselves.   i babysat for 6 1/2 hours yesterday for 2 kids (one was gone most of the time at baseball practice and the other was off with her friends most of the time) and the parents paid me $40!  off to michael's and hobby lobby!

simple bracelet with emerald green cat's eye beads, somewhat sloppy still:


(my wrist looks broken!  why???!!!)

necklace with silver plated chain and jet black stone beads:




two pairs of earrings, the ones on the left are hematite (6mm and 4mm) and green glass leaf beads.  the ones on the right are 4mm hematite, emerald cats eye, and some purple glass beads that i've had forever (they look black in the closer pic):

ones from left

aaaaand from right


final thing!  if you've made it this far, bless your soul

the beads are really much more green than they are in that picture, more like the pic below:


as always, comments (good or bad!) are welcomed.  My mom and I are going to try to sell them on ebay, if we can figure it out!