bodner025

     Making a beaded reindeer is not complicated at all. What you need most of is time, patience, and lots of glue gun sticks! ha! I bought several paper mache reindeer at Michael's after holiday christmas sale...70% off woohoo! Here are the BEFORE....     Now, if you get the regular "brown" paper mache (unfinished) reindeer, you should spray paint it as close to your beads color as possible...unless you want to go for something art deco. Next, you need your beaded garland, lots of em! I used a dozen packs of 10mm x 18ft (which I also bought at a few years ago at Hobby Lobby's Christmas holiday sale for 75% off). I prefer the faceted beads because they really catch the light (the dimmer the light, the more they twinkle!) I also prefer using these beads because they have the smaller bead in between each faceted bead; helps to make nice, tight, rows. Start wrapping the beaded garland right at the bottom of the neck and work my way to the back, then go up the neck or...