A few years back I tried a whole lot of different techniques for turning books into things, inspired by this book:
One of the projects was making paper beads. I made this necklace:
And more recently this bracelet:
Paper beads don’t use up an awful lot of paper. They’re also very fiddly and slow to make. So they’re not going to solve any need to get rid of unwanted books, magazines or paper. Or even just one old book. But I do like the way they look, and if it weren’t my RSI I’d be making more out of old maps, magazines and pretty paper.
Then I spotted this on Pinterest, which I then hunted down, found on Ebay and got Paul to buy for me:
It does the winding for you. I suppose it would be useful for quilling, too. You can take the handle off and attach it to a bottle, which can be used to store the beads as you make them.
There really is a doovy for everything.
That’s pretty cool! I haven’t see that. Is a doovy the same as a thing-a-madoodle?
Lol! I just googled “thing-a-madoodle”. I think the closest is ‘gizmo’. A generic term for a thing that does a useful thing.
According to the internet, ‘doovy’ is a person, and what I should be using is ‘doover’. But I’ve grown up with ‘doovy’ so it must be a local variation.