i met a lady on the weekend who makes spiders like those. she calls them christmas spiders and there's a little story that goes with them. The Legend of the Christmas Spider A long time ago , a mother prepared for Christmas Eve. She cleaned and scrubbed her home, chasing the spiders from the living room with her broom. The spiders fled to the attic and listened to the excitement below as the Christmas tree was put up and decorated. When all was quiet again, the little spiders crept back downstairs to see thebeautiful tree. They were filled with happiness as they crawled along every branch, admiring the glittering beauty of each ornament. But alas, by the time they had finished climbing through the tree, it was completely draped with their dusty, gray cobwebs.When Santa Claus came, He smiled as He looked upon the happy little spiders, however, He knew the mother would be heartbroken when she saw the shrouded tree. So He reached out and touched the webs and, blessing them, turned them into silver and gold. Now the Christmas tree sparkled and shimmered and was even more beautiful than before. Thus the custom to have tinsel of silver and gold and a spider ornament amongst the other decorations on the Christmas tree was born. ~Author Unknown
Hey my 4 year old nephews just saw the pictures and went crazy. How do you make those? I would like to make them for these kids.
Hi there! i absolutely love the spiders! Those are so great! Thanks for sharing your creations. i'm a beader too...it's soo addictive! If you ever want to talk beads, send me a personal message. You can check out some of my work by following the link at the bottom of my post, if you'd like. Very creative stuff! Happy beading! ~tree
I had wanted to do 3D bead work for ages and couldn't find any sites to teach me until rather by accident I stumbled across this site... YOU REALY MUST CHECK IT OUT! http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://perso.wanadoo.fr/mk.perles/indexfr.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2B%2522http://perso.wanadoo.fr/mk.perles/indexfr.htm%2522%26num%3D50%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26newwindow%3D1%26sa%3DG%26as_qdr%3Dall the spiders are my variation of a pattern that can be found at the above site. If you wanted to do my spiders heres how... (Purple looks GREAT) I use 28g bead wire and I use bugles and seeds for the legs, looks creepier. Follow the directions for Spider2 (at the above site) until you get to the 3rd set of legs. put on the 3rd set of legs then put your jewel on then do the top row. now depending on how big your jewel is you'll have to play around with the number beads in each row. you want to beads to be snug around the jewel or it will move. So you go 3rd legs, jewel, top row, bottom row, 4th legs, top row, bottom row and your done. I personally HATE SPIDERS!!!!! I was creeped out for days after making those!
