{"id":342,"date":"2016-08-26T14:11:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T14:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/?p=342"},"modified":"2016-08-26T14:11:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T14:11:00","slug":"nifty-beads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/2016\/08\/26\/nifty-beads\/","title":{"rendered":"Nifty Beads"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sibo<\/a><\/p>\n

We made some seriously cool beads last week. They are really easy to make too. Here\u2019s how you make beads out of salt dough\u2026<\/p>\n

Making the dough\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

2 cups of plain flour
\n1 cup of table salt
\n1 cup of water<\/p>\n

Put all ingredients into a mixing bowl and gradually add the water, mixing to a soft dough.<\/p>\n

Remove the mixture from the bowl, put it on a flat surface and knead it for 10 minutes. (Yes I know your arms gets tired but you need to do this because it helps to create a good smooth textured \u00a0dough.<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Let the dough stand for about 20 minutes before you start working with it.<\/p>\n

While your dough is having a rest (you can have one too) you need to cover some baking trays with grease proof paper or baking paper.<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t use all of the dough at once \u2013 you can wrap it in plastic and store it in an airtight container in the fridge for up to a week.<\/em><\/p>\n

Making the beads\u2026. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Pinch of small amounts of dough and roll it into a nice round ball in the palm of your hand.\u00a0 Carefully make a hole in the centre of the bead using a toothpick or something similar. Place it on the baking tray.<\/p>\n

Make a hole through the centre. You must make the hole in the centre whilst the dough is still soft \u2013 it becomes very hard once it has dried completely.<\/p>\n

You can, or course, make the beads any shape or size that you want to.<\/p>\n

You can leave them to dry naturally in the air. This is environmentally friendly, but it does take around 48 hours for them to dry. Or you can dry them in a very cool oven ~60 degrees Celcius.\u00a0 (Don\u2019t be tempted to make the oven any hotter \u2013 the beads just crack and then they are useless.) <\/em>It takes 3-4 hours for the beads to dry.<\/p>\n

Once they are dry you can paint them different colours with craft or spray paint.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When the paint has dried, give them a coat of clear varnish or spray paint to make them nice and glossy.<\/p>\n

Now you\u2019re ready to thread your beads.\u00a0 We use fishing nylon \u2013 but you can use anything \u2013 wool, twine, \u00a0leather \u2013 whatever you have. We also cut up slices of cork (from wine bottles) in between the big beads.<\/p>\n

Go crazy \u2013 have fun.<\/p>\n

Sibo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We made some seriously cool beads last week. They are really easy to make too. Here\u2019s how you make beads out of salt dough\u2026 Making the dough\u2026 2 cups of plain flour 1 cup of table salt 1 cup of water Put all ingredients into a mixing bowl and gradually add the water, mixing to … Continue reading “Nifty Beads”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34,10],"tags":[20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}