I was digging around in my craft room… you know how craft rooms go. You acquire craft supplies with great intention of getting to a project, but then forget… the craft supplies build up… I have a lot of supplies! Yet I always feel like I need more (creative brain curse)… Anyways, I have a beautiful aunt who is an amazing seamstress and creator. She recently gifted me 2 boxes of random fun crafting supplies that just ended up in my pile of my craft supplies that I would love to get to one day… Well, that day has come! I was going through said boxes and came across a bunch of beautiful beads! I have never been a beader or even been interested in beading, but it was only the night before that I had come across the most beautiful beaded spiders on Pinterest. These spiders can be found on the blog Dans Le Lakehouse, and her tutorial is awesome, so I’ll leave this creation to her. But I had to try to make some for our own home, especially since I just discovered a treasure chest of beads that I didn’t even know I had.
I had a lot of fun making them. They can be kind of addictive… until you run out of awesome beads and feel the need to go buy more… That’s when I stopped. Corbin also really liked helping me! It was funny how much he loved “making spiders,” then tried to convince Shawnikins to make them too. lol.
Spiders are a great fascination in this house. Corbin especially has a love-hate relationship with them. They are okay if they are pretend or not moving. If they move it’s the scariest thing in the world!!
We have a small fake Burch tree that I use as a center piece to our dining room table. Our dining room is right at our front door so dressing up the dining room table is also like dressing up our entryway. Anyways, each season I try to decorate the tree for that holiday. For Halloween this year I covered the tree in spider webs and placed some of our super cute (i mean spooooky) glass beaded spiders on the branches and even hung some from white string attached to the spiders back side to resemble the spider spinning its own web. I think it turned out well!
I hope these beaded spiders inspire you to take a look in your craft supplies and find a way to use up some or your hidden treasures! I’m so glad I did. I was thinking that these spiders could be turned into Halloween jewelry, like attaching them to an earing stud and make awesome spiders hanging from your ears or adding them to a hair clip and put them in your hair. CREEEEEPY!!
If you are not feeling the creative bug, there are some talented crafty people on Etsy that sell beaded spiders. You can check them out here:
- Beaded Spiders – made by SmashGardens
- Mama and Baby Beaded Spiders – made by DandDStarr
Until next time, have fun creating things from supplies you find around your home, and enjoy creating beautiful and SPOOOOOKY things!
XO JCL
P.S. You can find more of my Halloween/Fall Ideas here.
I’d love to wear this. Would I be able to ad a pin or clip of some sort?
Awesome! Yes! I think you could easily add a small broach pin to the underbelly of the spider, and then clip it to your clothing! Great idea! You could also probably add a hair clip and wear it in your hair!
There DIY bead spiders are so cute they would make great jewelry or napkins rings for a Halloween table I absolutely love this ideas. My Mind is just spinning now like a spider in a web.
Lol! Thanks Jen! Such a great idea to make a napkin ring with them! Thanks for the inspiration! Have an awesome day!
These are so awesome!! I wish I had the patience to make them too… lol. But totally cool! Well done 🙂
Thanks so much Monika! They don’t take as long as you may think. They are actually kinda addicting! Lol!
These are awesome! Might try and make some with my kids tomorrow. Use up some of my ever expand craft supplies too. Haha!
Awesome! Love that idea! Thanks Charlotte!
They look so cute! I love watching and looking at DIYs. I’ve tried a lot of DIYs before but didn’t go well. I’m just not good at it!
You can do anything you set your mind too! Thanks Reika!
They look so real but at the same time fancy 😀 I think I can try and make them with my little girl, she will love it!
Thanks so much Fiorella! I’m sure she will to! Be careful… they are a bit addicting! Wink. Have fun!
These spiders look so fun! I love making things with beads, but have never tried making spiders. So cool!! On a side note, that home letter sign beautiful..where did you get it?
Thanks Joanna! It’s from Home Sense. My fav home décor store ever!
These are so cute, I love them! I want to do this with my nieces, they would have a blast!:)
Thanks Jubilee! I’m sure they would too, and a great way to keep them busy for a while… have fun!
Your spiders turned out so Beautifully! Thanks for sharing the link with me so I could come see!
Thanks you so much for the inspiration! And thanks so much for stopping by for a visit! 🙂