Dragonflies

My mum just made these very quickly, with an old pair of earrings:

Twists and ladybirds

Here are the ladybirds decorations that I showed you yesterday. I also made some Fimo twists, and I varnished it with a special Fimo varnish my mum got on the internet.

The twists look really nice and shiny! I also tried sticking some little gems onto the twists. It was difficult, I had to use tweezers:

To start with it looked really nice, and I took this picture,

but the next morning they all fell out. So now I have to think about a different way of sticking the little gems.

Ladybirds

Look at my crab apple tree, it has lots of red apples.

Yesterday we made lots of new things. With some earrings from Claire's I made some lady bug decorations for my hearing aids. 

My mum separated the lady bird from the earring,

and I made the decoration using the method I explained here,

I hope you like them! I am going to wear them today.

Trying to make Fimo beads...

... and this is how it is going:

More twisters... and lots of other things!

Yesterday a little friend visited, and we spend the afternoon making decorations for our hearing aids. We made some more twisters with Fimo, like these,

and these,

and these:

We also made some dangling charm decorations,

and my friend's mum brought some fantastic nail foils, and I tried them for the first time! They are great:

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.