Handmade my own beads.

Well I was given some oven dry clay a while back from a friend. I had it lying around wondering what to do with it, then last night I thought I know lets have a go at making some beads.

Sadly the colours were very limiting, half were very dark and the other half very bright. So was limited with colours. But I had great fun playing and even though I need a lot more practice, I could get into this.

I know most people who make beads, have all the proper equipment, rollers to enable them to make perfect beads in several sizes and shapes for one. Although I would love these, they are not cheep, and I personal like the rough look, in my opinion they look much more handmade when they are not perfect.

They should really be sanded and polished to at least get rid of the texture from my hands. I did try doing that this morning, but they just went white. But I think that is because its not the proper clay to use. So these will have to stay as they are. but I still like them (some of the colours are a bit dark and the photos not good, no real sunlight here lately). But I can see them made into jewellery and they may not be so bad. We will see once I get playing making them up.

I had so much fun playing that I have more clay coming my way (fimo/polymer clay) so I can play more. (Thanks to my friend Lorna for this, your a gem).

Thank you for looking.