Behold the bugs...
These little buggers were a lot of fun to make, more so than the flowers because they didn't seem so tedious and the outcome was so cute! It felt a lot like when I crochet, a lot of loops turning into something really cute and you cant wait to see the end product so you just keep working.
I could only use the colored copper wire I was so excited about with black seed beads that I had bought previously for a different project because the colored beads I had bought for this project were too small for the wire to fit through a second time.
I made the bugs into bobby pins for my nieces to wear who are both three. I added some super glue onto the bobby pins in addition to wrapping the extra wire around the pins to secure them but the glue didn't really want to hold so that was a little frustrating.
I think the end product is really cute and really fun. I am excited to see the pins on my nieces (one of which has the cutest little red curly cues so the bugs should look pretty sweet hiding in those curls.) It is always cathartic to make gifts for them as they both live so far away and I only get to see them a few times a year. Making things for them always brings me closer to them in my mind and spirit.
Other ideas for these bugs would be to put them on a beaded wire necklace for a little girl or a bracelet of some kind.
Good project Ms. Stewart, I enjoyed it.
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