How to Make Paper Beads

Haven't we all wondered what to do with all our old magazine subscriptions? AT home, we usually keep them so that when we have a project wherein we need to cut out some pictures or articles, we have magazines ready; But the advent of the computer and Internet boom has rendered that obsolete already, since we just need to Google everything, right?

I was browsing the Net yesterday for ideas on how to recycle paper when I came across this Instructable, from my favorite website Instructables.com. It's a tutorial on how to make paper beads. The beads there looked marvelous and I really wanted to try it out. Perfect timing, when I went out to meet boyfie, Jollibee gave me a flier printed on magazine paper. So I tried making it, just for the heck of it and found it really enjoyable. Boyfie and my siblings were laughing at me because I was using this Energizer head lamp to trace lines and cut the paper.

I had fun making beads, and I kept on imagining the possibilities of this new hobby that I'm planning on taking up. Since I'm not all artistic and I have no clue as to how to make jewelry, I'll just experiment on different bead sizes first. When I have the time and budget to go out to Quiapo and look for necklace strings and stuff for making earrings, I'll make some jewelry and post it here. Heck, I'd probably sell them online if they look good enough.

I'll post instructions soon on how I did it, but the instructable above pretty much said it all.

Cut out triangles from your magazine. Discard 1CM triangle

Glue, ball pen tube (or similar)  for rolling, magazine triangles

Apply glue on the triangle

Roll the triangle on the ball pen tube

Add more glue in case it dried out

After fully rolling the triangle, roll it on the surface to lock in the end of the bead

These are the beads that I was able to make from the flier