I previously posted about a trinket box that I had worked on for a friend, put aside, then picked up again. It seems that I forgot one part of my prior attempt at making this box: the beads.
Back when we had cable TV, I saw a show on HGTV where a woman had strung beads on thread and glued them to the box. I wanted to do the top of my friend’s box in this way. I was using two blues and two neutrals: clear and silver.
Beautiful, right? The problem was that when I was trying to apply them, I had trouble keeping them in straight lines. They wound up going all over the place, and I eventually stripped them all off and repainted the top of the box. Then, I removed any paint and glue stuck to them, and wound up with this mess:
Now, I am stuck trying to figure out which beads are light blue and which are dark blue. Which beads are clear and which are silver. They look somewhat different in the tray, but when I start sorting them, they start to all look alike. I have learned my lesson: until I get good at pasting beads to boxes, I will only use very different colors. This way, if things go wrong, I can sort them with ease.
Does anyone out there have any tips for gluing beads to boxes? If so, I would love to hear them, as I would like to be able to do this successfully some time.
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