whole walnuts
dremel with drill tool
plier
glue
18-gauge wire
wire
vintage venetian glass beads and leafs,
mine are from tinseltrading.com
1. Cut the 18-gauge wire to 9 inches.
2. Make a kink the end with a plier.
3. Make a hole through the whole walnut
lengthwise 4. Thread first a small bead
than the walnut. On the top add another
bead. 5. Use the thin wire to keep
everything in place by winding it around
the walnut.
Advent Calendar
YOU WILL NEED:
24 walnuts, open
a small knife
tape
dremel with drill
thin wire
parcel string
small paper strips
number stamps
glass beads, 24 flower shaped +
24 small rounds
silver leaf and gilding supplies
1. To open the walnuts, put them in
the oven and bake for half an hour on
392°F. 2. To open a nut, hold in 1 hand
and prick with the knife in the thin skin
at the bottom of the nut. Turn the knife
and the nut will open easily. 3. Clean out
the nutshell. 4. Once the nut is open,
tape the 2 matching sides together
temporarily. (It’s so hard to find the
perfect halves in the middle of so many
equal looking nuts!) 5. Drill a hole in the
middle part of the nut on both sides.
6. Thread the wire 2–3 times through the
holes and intertwine the ends close to
the nut. 7. Take off the tape and discard.
8. Thread the parcel string through the
wire. 9. Fill the nuts with whatever your
heart desires or wishes for the one you
love and give it a numbered stamp.
10. Close the nut with some string and a
glass bead.
Walnut Ornaments with Tassel
YOU WILL NEED:
walnuts
dremel with drill tool
parcel string or other cotton string
(longer than walnut)
straight needle (longer than a
walnut) with the thickness of a
drill tool
venetian vintage silver thread,
tinseltrading.com
2 small glass beads
thin wire
1. Bore a hole with the drill tool from the
top to the bottom of the nut. If the tools
are to short, bore 2 holes and find a way
through the walnut with the long needle.
2. Take the string and wind it around
a small book. Twine around about 20
times. 3. Fold in half and wind some silver
thread around one of the ends. Make a
knot but leave some extra string. 4. Cut
up the tassel. 5. Use a long needle and
pull the tassel through the nut so that it
hangs nicely from the walnut. 6. Fasten
on top and use more silver thread to pull
around the nut.
Nutshell Amulet
YOU WILL NEED:
dremel with drill drag and polish tools
wire
different shaped glass beads and glass
seed beads, mine are from
beadparadise.com
parcel string
metal beads
1. Find a perfect shaped walnut. 2. Open
the walnut, and clean and polish the
inside. 3. On each side of the nut, down
the midline where the nut opens, drill 10
holes. (There should be 10 small holes
on all 4 edges or sides of the nut.) 4. On
the face of each nut, drill 15–20 holes,
scattered to your desire. 5. Thread and
twist the wire through a hole on the nut’s
bottomside and thread the glass beads.
The wire should make up the entire
length of the nut. 6. Twist the string and
fix it pearl by pearl through the holes.
7. Repeat 4 times on each 2 sides of the
nut. 8. Thread the seed beads through
all the drilled holes, hide the contact
strings inside. 9. Tie the 2 halfs together,
decorate with a bead at the bottom
end. 10. At the upper ends make a little
loop with the seed beads at each end
of the half nuts. 11. Thread one end of
a long (armlength) string through the
2 beadloops. 12. Thread a flowerbead
through 2 ends of the string down to the
nut, and knot the ends.
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