Lots of charms! (with video tutorial)

This weekend I made lots of charms:

I am taking all of these to my audiologist on Thursday. He will give them out to other girls who use hearing aids like me. Sometimes children don't know they can decorate their hearing aids, and they don't like wearing them. I hope my decorations will help them feel happy to have hearing aids.

I also made these:

These are for me!

You can see how to make this kind of decorations with pictures and texts in an older post, here. 

Or you can see it in this video (the video is in two parts):

 

 

Flowers - tutorial

We went to the Leven bead shop, and found these nice beads:

This is what the back of the beads look like:

To turn them into decorations for my hearing aids we used a bit of red wire from the bead shop, and passed it through the gaps at the back, like this,

We piece at the back is very soft, so you can bend it easily to put the wire through. You have to leave enough space to put the tube of the hearing aid through. Then you make a knot with the wire, and cut the ends off so they don't scratch your ears.

And this is what the decorations look like,

Do you like them?

Glitter twists - tutorial

I have not written for a while because of the school holiday.
Yesterday I made some new twists with Fimo and glitter. They look really nice and I am wearing them to school today.
This is what they look like:

They go really well with my glittery moulds.

To make them you have to make twists. First, you make two long sticks of Fimo, rolling the fimo with your hands like this,

This is what the sticks should look like:

They have to be nice and even. Then you twist them around a crochet hook, like this,

and you can squeeze them together,

or leave them more separated:

Sometimes I like to roll them on the crochet stick, so they get a flat surface, instead of a round surface:

Then you bake them in the oven, following the instructions on the Fimo packet.

When they are out and cool, you paint them with Fimo varnish,

and whilst the varnish is still wet you shake glitter on top of it,

You have to wait overnight for them to dry, and then you can wear them!

Tutorial - twister decorations

Here is how you make twist decorations out of Fimo.  First of all you need small balls of Fimo, in the colours of the rainbow:

You put them close together like this,

and you roll them gently with your hand so they stick:

this is what you get to start with:

Roll it more thinly,

and curl it gently around a crochet hook.

Bake them in the oven at 110C for 20 min, and that's it! You can also make them in solid colors, or twisting two colours together like this:

Rainbow twister decorations

The Fimo arrived and we made some twisting decorations yesterday!

This is what they look like, I hope you like them!

They are really easy to make.

I will be posting a tutorial tomorrow.

Tutorial - Difficult tube decorations

 Yesterday we went to the beadshop near where we live. We bought lots of things to make decorations for my hearing aids. My daddy wanted to make something to go on the tubes and he made these:

If you want to make something similar this is what you need: beads, wire and small pliers (and a stick or something the same thickness as your tube. We used a crochet stick).

You take a piece of wire, you thread it through the bead,

you twist the wire round itself several times,

then you add a new bead and start again.

my daddy put three beads in total. and when you have finished you wind the wire and clip off the end and tuck in the ends to make sure the are not spiky.

And this is what they look like.

Do you like them?

Tutorial: Difficult star charm decoration

Today we have been making lots of decorations with stars!

This is a difficult one. My dad made them using a pair of clip-on earrings from Claire's. We also used a small toggle clasp, which we bought online. We only use the round bit of the clasp, not the stick bit. We also used some wire:

First you have to remove the decoration from the earring itself:

That leaves you with a small ring, and from that ring hung the sticks with the stars. Here is the ring:

Using some small pliers, you have to open the small ring:

It looks like this:

Then you take close the ring around the toggle clasp, like this:

And this is the end result, two hanging star decorations:

Tutorial: Easy heart charm decoration

As well as using beads, you can use charms to make decorations for your hearing aids. You can buy charms on bead shops, for example online. I sometimes go with my mum to a really nice bead shop, where the lady always helps us find the best charms.

Here are two heart charms. You will also need wire, two small silver beads, and two jump rings.

You put the wire through the hole on the bead, and fold it back:

You add the little silver bead:

And then you add the jump ring. You then fold the wire down, and twist it around itself. This is the end result. I hope you like it!

Tutorial: Star-Rainbow easy dangling decoration

You can make dangling decorations with beads. They are very easy to make. You need:

beads that you like
jeweller's wire (think one is easier to use)
jump rings (these are tiny rings that will hang the decoration from the tube of your hearing aid)

You will also need scissors, and you may find it useful to have some small pliers handy.

This is an easy decoration.

This is what you need:

1 jump ring, 1 star pony bead, 1 rainbow bead, 1 small silver bead, and some wire.

First you put the silver bead through the wire, and fold it on itself, like this:

Then you add the rainbow bead:

Then you twist the wire a bit in this way:

Then you add the star bead, and the jump ring. You then have to twist the wire a bit around itself, in this way:

You cut the bit of wire that is left over with your scissors, and this is the end result: