Maddy made this last year, the day before Freddie was born. It’s kind of a funny thing, now. I love it though. The girls have made various things over the last week, to help me out with some new pages on BeadMerrily, home of all things Hama Bead-y.This is from one of the Mini Bead […]
Hama Bead Hot Air Balloon Picture
I made this last Summer on 4 square pegboards. It was pleasant to make something big, that required a certain amount of concentration. I enjoyed doing it. I’ve finally got round to putting the pattern together into the bead designer; I’m putting them up on BeadMerrily, my Hama Bead Ideas website connected to CraftMerrily, our […]
Valentine Hama Bead Patterns
In the spirit of creativity, we’re back into Hama Beads and Amelie surpassed herself this week by creating these.. I think they are very beautiful and we each have our own one on our desk. Thank you sweetpea. She inspired me, so I’ve spent a bit of time putting all our current Valentine Hama Designs […]
Chinese New Year Activities
In the midst of a busy week (and next week is the same) the girls and I thought we would revisit China and spend some time exploring Chinese New Year. We’ve not ‘done’ it for ages, certainly not so that Amelie or Josie would remember, so doing some finding out and crafting seemed a good […]
Kandinsky Resource for Kids
You might remember that last summer, Zoe and I did some Kandinsky work with our children. The resulting project, with various ideas, got blogged here, among other places. It was a great way to try out various different artist materials. It also inspired us to play with Hama Beads to recreate the famous Concentric Circles […]
Round up so I don't forget!
Monday – I was too busy worrying about my Dad to do more than basics, so Zoe and co came here in the afternoon instead of an art day. Girls did loads of work though. Fran really forging ahead with Mathletics, writing and so on and of course completed that lovely guest post for me. […]
Christmas Hama Beads Craft
Well, if I’m honest, we’ve not done it but here is a whole batch of Christmas Hama Bead Patterns from days of yore, with a special appearance by “Santiclors” designed by a very young Gwenny.
Club Penguin in Hama Beads
Or at least a Puffle on a surf board. Designed by Maddy, aged 9. Edited 2011 – these seem to be fairly popular. We’ve just got a copy of the Hama Designer CD again (thank you to my lovely friend Julie) and so I’ve drawn up the pictures. These are just for fun, no profit […]
Easter Egg Hama Bead Designs
Despite being slightly hampered by the fact that my CD Hama Designer has ceased to work (and my spare which is actually Sarah’s is with Jacqui who converts things for me!) and the CD is out of date anyway and doesn’t have the boards, i have produced this page on the brand new BeadMerrily which […]
Maddy is officially a genius :)
I am SO impressed by this. I asked Maddy to make me some unusual princess designs with hama beads and this is what she came up with. It’s really good, but was impressed me wasn’t so much the pattern, nice as it is, but the fact that she did it, completely from her own head, […]
