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My bead drying rack. I've got this down to a science now -- it takes approximately ten minutes to make each bead, including cutting the paper, winding and gluing it around the skewer, and adding a final coat of gel medium because the Mod Podge is too sticky to act as a topcoat. That doesn't include drying and curing time, though. I do them in batches, first cutting out a bunch of paper triangles, then gluing them all, letting them dry and cure, then coating them all and letting them dry again. That ten minutes per bead can be stretched out over days.

Description
My bead drying rack. I've got this down to a science now -- it takes approximately ten minutes to make each bead, including cutting the paper, winding and gluing it around the skewer, and adding a final coat of gel medium because the Mod Podge is too sticky to act as a topcoat. That doesn't include drying and curing time, though. I do them in batches, first cutting out a bunch of paper triangles, then gluing them all, letting them dry and cure, then coating them all and letting them dry again. That ten minutes per bead can be stretched out over days.