Hama bead earbuds

I saw this adorable project and lo and behold: I had a huge tub of those beads sitting right next to me on my desk. The girls love making those peg-board projects where you iron the beads to fuse them together. You know what I’m talking about? I’ve seen them called Perler beads and Hama beads, maybe it’s a brand-name thing. I don’t know, but I can tell you that this was fate. I had to do this project.

I didn’t have any cuticle scissors, so I just started chopping away at those things with a box cutter. Okay, that sounds terrible. I was careful, I promise.

I thought the project would be easy, but it was a pain to cut those little suckers open, and shoving them onto the headphone wire was a nightmare. I used a very skinny paintbrush to help: I cut the bead, poked the paintbrush into the center to open it, and then slid it on to the headphones. At the end of the whole thing, though, I was a total pro at it.

Super fancy!