Wordy Wednesday

Wordy Wednesday – Painting with Beads

Do you know what Diamond painting is? It’s basically paint-by-number only instead of paint, you stick beads, or “drills”, onto a sticky printed canvas. You can get them for dirt cheap on Temu.

(Or – at least you could back in the days of free shipping – now, with the Tariffs, shipping is more than your order!)

This is me, “painting”, (I use that term loosely because come on, I’m sticking beads on to a canvas, not sure it’s really classified as painting), in our cargo-trailer-converted-into-a-camper wearing my “Lost at Last” shirt that I only wear when we go camping. I’m sitting in front of our bed, which is on top of kitchen cabinets Kevin bought at Habitat for Humanity for dirt cheap.

We saw this idea on one of the hundreds of YouTube videos we watched from people who had also converted a cargo trailer into a camper and thought it was a cool idea – our “garage” is under the bed, on the other side of these cabinets. We use the cabinets to store our clothes and the long drawer you see to the left of me is one big cabinet that we use for our dirty clothes.

(Side note: I ended up selling that diamond painting in my mom’s craft booth).

3 thoughts on “Wordy Wednesday – Painting with Beads”

  1. I love diamond painting – my friends and I get together every other Friday for snacks and diamonds, we eat junk food and work on our “paintings” It’s fun, relaxing, and I’ve framed and hung a few.

    1. OMG – that sounds like so much fun! What sort of paintings do you like to work on? Landscapes, animals, etc? Also – how do you frame them? Mom and I are constantly looking for different, (i.e. cheap) ways to frame them. I admit, I’m hooked on diamond painting. It IS relaxing and so satisfying to see it come together.

      1. Oh it is! We solve the problems of the world and get a ton done at the same time! I like animals, I’ll post a picture of the fox I did and a few Golden Retrievers. I like sort of still life stuff,too. I get cheap frames at Hobby Lobby – or anywhere I can! My friend’s dad mounts them on mat boards- I’m not sure how he does it. I’m planning on hanging a bunch in one of the spare bedrooms soon

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