Super nerdy beading adventures
I got paid last weekend, so I splurged on beads. Today I made two bracelets, Clove and Hama. This is my first finished ATLA bracelet! I was looking for beads for a different character and I found these glass beads with a wavy pattern in aqua and just a tiny smudge of red like a drop of blood in each bead-- perfect! So if you should need a villain-inspired bracelet for some reason, I can hook you up, possibly with "She is what her society made her! Everybody gets that with male characters! Why do so the so many of the same people have to be so hateful about the evil ladies?" rant included.
I'm still thinking about how to do the Rue bracelet. I don't have enough of the flowered beads to fill up the string, and the leaf-shaped beads have their holes placed in such a way that they lie with the flat side of the leaf against the next bead in line, which makes them stack pretty thin. I have enough of them to double up, but I have my doubts about how that looks aesthetically. I'm thinking about using the colorless plastic spacer beads that came with the leaf beads. Those are narrow and colorless, though, so I'm not sure I can thread them without giving myself a headache. Maybe the little wooden beads that came with my pack of sea shells will do the trick; they'd certainly be easier to work with.
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I'm still thinking about how to do the Rue bracelet. I don't have enough of the flowered beads to fill up the string, and the leaf-shaped beads have their holes placed in such a way that they lie with the flat side of the leaf against the next bead in line, which makes them stack pretty thin. I have enough of them to double up, but I have my doubts about how that looks aesthetically. I'm thinking about using the colorless plastic spacer beads that came with the leaf beads. Those are narrow and colorless, though, so I'm not sure I can thread them without giving myself a headache. Maybe the little wooden beads that came with my pack of sea shells will do the trick; they'd certainly be easier to work with.
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