Hi,
I did put your excellent video on our TV tonight Hayat and Bron was most impressed as I was the first time I watched it earlier today. Bron's done quite a bit of bead work just as presents for friends but like me she'd never seen paper beads. I imagine coating with wood glue seals and strengthens the beads; the possibilities are only limited by one's imagination. Bron hasn't done bead work for quite a while concentrating now on greetings cards which she spends a lot of time making.
We both like craftwork; Bron does the more gentle crafts like silk flowers; card making and is even very good at pyrography; I'm more into the heavy side like wood and metal turning; over the years I've learned many skills; vintage radio/TV restoration; transformer & coil winding; french polishing; veneering and more recently metal spinning using my much modified Graduate woodturning lathe where I managed to break a rib whilst applying pressure to the long handled spinning tool; arc welding for over 50 years but Bron generously bought me a Parweld TIG welder so now I can weld just about anything including aluminium which is difficult. I've made lots of our solid wood furniture both fitted and free standing; any work on the bungalow or in the gardens; we don't get tradespeople in we learn the skills and save a fortune whilst using top quality materials affording these due to saving on labour so our work is always top class.
We're always pleased to watch what others do and as here on the forum I like to share ideas and information. Any person who says they are bored deserves to be bored; there aren't enough hours in a day for us. Good on you Hayat I like what you're doing and your paper beads are different so we've learnt something new today. Thank you.
Kind regards, Colin.
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There are so many interesting things to learn; here's some metal spinning I recently learned.
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New skill recently learned; TIG welding here are two aluminium mower petrol tanks I made from scratch with an original leaking tank. Life can be so good.