so i've had these bags of those cheap plastic octaganoal beads forever....and since everyone on craftster has taught me it's never a bad idea to stick random things in the oven, i thought "what the hell" so here it is.
a picture of it up to the light
my first try produced what i'm now using as a soap dish
i felt rather brilliant. i'm sure someone else has done it before, but i was pretty excited by it. let me know what you think!
<edited to bring tute to the first post
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well, it's actually really easy to do. here's a short tut.
supplies:
-beads- cheap, plastic (i don't have a picture of the beads, but i hope you know what i'm talking about.)
-a metal bowl
-an oven
directions:
-preheat oven to 350
-put some beads in a bowl or other metal oven friendly recepticle. (i say metal because the heat travels through it more quickly. i did the same thing in a glass bowl, but it took a lot longer)
the hardest part is getting the beads to lay flat in
one layer up the sides of the bowl. it takes patience and because of this my bowls are all proving to be shallow. one layer is important because of the connection points that the beads make when they melt together.
put the beads in the oven and bake for about 15 mins.
make sure to let everything cool before to try to take it out of the metal mold and be careful they can be pretty fragile.
