These little whales might look awfully delicious, but are actually swimming around. At least they look like they would want to swim around 😁 Somehow I managed to keep them still long enough for this photo shoot.
These whales were inspired by the little cakes known as “petits fours” and come with matching toppings like a candied cherry, chopped hazelnuts, a slice of lemon or a pistachio.
Source: The German instructions can be found in Heart Bead Nr. 14 (06/2014) on pp. 26-28.
In animes they sometimes show these tiny, red octopuses, called “tako” in Japanese. When I found patterns for beaded takos I knew that I wanted a red one, like in animes 😄
For its smaller counterpart I chose teal coloured beads. Together they look like they are trying out a new dance routine: to the left – to the right – rolling around!
Takos are the classical filling in takoyaki, Japanese for “grilled octopus” and a very prominent featured street food in animes. So of course I also needed to make my own version of takoyaki 😁
A takoyaki with a pick, ready to be eaten.
Disclaimer: No beaded takos where harmed while making this takoyaki.
Source: tako unknown; takoyaki own creation
“My Neighbour Totoro” is one of my favourite Ghibli films. What I like most about this film is its heartfelt story. The worrying about the mother as well as the disappearance of the younger sister are both relatable situations. Though it is slow paced, the film is filled to the brim with joy and wondrous situations and also has its fair share of excitement.
In the scene where the younger sister takes a nap lying on Totoro’s belly I have more than once wished for a life-sized Totoro just to do the same. Totoro looks really fluffy and comfortable 🤗
When I stumbled upon a pattern for a beaded Totoro I just knew I want one. The only drawback: that one isn’t quite big enough for me to lie on 😆
Source: unknown
Some time ago I found this incredible beaded hippocampus pattern and I knew I needed one. Well, actually at the time of this post I already made three 😁
Today I’ll show you one of them, my ace hippocampus, inspired by the colours from the asexuality pride flag.
black: asexuality
grey: grey-asexuality and demisexuality
white: non-asexual partners and allies
purple: community
Since a hippocampus is a mixture of a horse with a fish’s tail, I chose beads that most resembled the texture of these two parts. The beads for the mane are black opaque matte while the coat is grey colour lined, also with a matted finish. The fish tail is white opaque with a lustered finish which makes the beads extra shiny, while the fins are purple transparent with silver lining.
“Ain’t I cute?”
Source: from the German book Fantastische Mini-Perlentiere by Christiane Brüning
These beaded penguins were inspired by the video game series Fallout featuring a ghoul, a glowing one and a radioactively contaminated penguin, whom a third arm is growing out of it’s belly.
I chose those beads especially to highlight the individual traits of the characters depicted: Marbled beads for the ghoul, glowing-in-the-dark beads for the glowing one and neon green beads for the contaminated penguin.
Before switching to Debian a few years ago I was using Kubuntu as operating system for a long time, but kinda liked the old version of the official Ubuntu logo. At that time I decided to try and emulate the logo with beaded penguins. Even if Ubuntu already changed their logo twice since then, I’d like to share my version with you.
Beaded penguins are mimicking the Ubuntu logo by forming a circle. In total there are six penguins, three big ones looking up at the camera and three tiny ones. The penguins are coloured yellow, orange and red. Opposite each big penguin is its corresponding little penguin. Starting at the top going clock-wise: big orange penguin (looking upwards), little yellow penguin, big red penguin (looking upwards), little orange penguin, big yellow penguin (looking upwards) and little red penguin.
At the beginning Ubuntu’s branding strategy was focusing on the human element of their OS, resulting in them creating some advertisement photos where humans are forming the Ubuntu logo. And in turn inspiring my penguin version.
The logo Ubuntu used from 2004 till 2010 upon which my beaded penguin version is based upon.
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