6 months ago, I posted some Bamboo Tile Pendants I made with vintage children’s book images:





The traffic to my site because of those has been overwhelming. With the traffic comes “How do I do….” questions, the biggest being “How the heck do you make the little wire thingy on the top?!?!”

So I made a little tutorial and tried the best I could to explain. I am getting a video camera soon and would love to make video tuts for all sorts of things. The camera I have now would be no good for that sort of thing. Feel free to ask me any questions and please bear with my pathetic little “illustrations”.



















See a close-up of this to get a better idea:

Finally… something crafty! After all, this is supposed to be a craft blog, not a blog where I profess my love and wish to grow a wiener.

I made some cute necklace pendants out of bamboo tiles and children’s book images:

So how in the hell do you make these damn things……

Easy! I wish I had time to do a nice tutorial with pictures and all that good stuff….

1. Get some tiles, dominos, or wood shapes from etsy, ebay, michaels, hobby lobby, etc.

2. Cut some images to the right sizes for your tiles.

3. Get some decoupage glue. I used Aleene’s Instant Decoupage Glue this time with much better results.

4. Brush some glue onto the top of the tile and place your image on top. You have to work fast when you do this because this particular glue seems to dry faster than Mod Podge glue.

5. Important!!—- Make sure that you press your image down onto the glued tile tightly. You don’t want any bubbles or raised areas on the edges of the image. You want the image completely flat against the tile. This glue is thinner though and doesn’t make your image as soggy as Mod Podge does, so bubbles are less likely. (Geez, I sound like an Aleene’s Rep. or something. I swear, I am not affiliated!)

6. Wait around 5 minutes for it to dry completely and then brush more glue on top of the image.

7. Again, wait for it to dry and keep adding more coats of glue to the image until you are satisfied, letting it dry between coats. I put around 4 or 5 coats because I knew I was going to coat them with resin eventually and wanted to make sure the resin did not ruin the image. You can stop here if you wish. I coated mine with resin because I didn’t like seeing the brush stroke lines you will get from the glue. I am anal about these things.

8. I used a different kind of resin than usual. I usually use Easy Cast resin, but this time I used Decorators Solution. I just followed the directions for mixing it, but instead of pouring it on, I brushed gobs of it on and pushed it around with the brush until the top was completely covered with a thick coat. Let them dry for 24 hours and they’re finished! I put them in the oven (don’t turn it on!) to keep them dust-free for the 24 hours.

(Edit: I have posted a new tutorial for the wire wrapping done on the top of the pendants.

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