Answer to quesion: What sealer do you use on the beads?

I use Min-Wax poly acrylic (water based) fast-drying glossy. I've tried lacquer and shellac and varnish and they are too hard to clean up after, too smelly to work with for very long and some go yellow after time so I stand by good old poly-acrylic. They are dry to the touch in about an hour and cure over the next few days until they are as durable and hard as the smelly, hard to clean up after alternatives! Walmart has a good supply in the paint department for about $17.00 a quart and will coat 1,000's of beads! I double dip some, if I need a particular look to the bead, but for regular purposes, one coat is plenty.
IDEA: try cutting straight strips and rolling tube shaped beads - the words or pictures on the papers show up better on tube shaped beads.

Beading Parties Available Again Summer of 2010

How about getting all your friends together to browse and/or plan your own special paper bead necklace?

Maybe you and your friends are into "recycling" and just want personal jewelry made of recycled paper or scrap cloth beaded necklaces, bracelets and earrings.

Maybe you and your friends want jewelry from paper or cloth that carries beautiful memories or just has beautiful colors to match a special outfit.

(Bible pages necklace shown in photo - click to enlarge)

Call or email: bbwright98@hotmail.com or 801-209-1382 and ask to book a party!

The hostess gets 10% of all sales in credits towards your own purchase of products!

A party is an excellent time to coordinate with me to make a very personal jewelry product.

I love special orders!

* I have made REAL Salt lake soccer bracelets from game brochures. Necklaces from notes written by children in their own handwriting: "I love you Mom, Angie age 5" is a treasure for a lifetime to wear around your neck.

* I have made beads from napkins left over from a baby shower for the Mother-to-be!

* One lady once told me, "if you would make a necklace from my favorite book, "To Kill a Mockingbird", I'd buy it! I found an old discarded copy and the necklace was given to her on her last day as a teacher.

* I have made necklaces from favorite cloths, to favorite colors, to favorite magazines to maps of favorite places! I think I have only begun to scratch the surface!

THINK ABOUT IT:

A hand written note to your children would be something they would cherish forever! "Mother will always with you!" and then your own hand written signature. What child wouldn't love that - a keepsake they can wear!