  
Beaded Chicken Egg © 2007 by Desertbrat:
Date: 2007/3/23 7:32 p.m.
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12. You want to squeeze out enough of a glue-line to hold the number of beads that you scoop up on your needle ... but not so much that it will ooze up and cover the beads when you gently press them into it.
In the photo below, it's hard to see the line of glue, ahead of the line of beads.
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13. You can buy those neat tips with tiny holes, to put on your glue bottles, but I never have any.
So I use a trick, I learned years ago, from Heidi Borcher. Remember her? The daughter of Aleene, who had that craft show on tv for years? (You know, Aleene is the one that, with the help of a chemist, invented Tacky Glue.)
Anyway, take some scotch tape and TIGHTLY wind it around the tip of the Tacky Glue dispenser, making sure the tape is up above the bottle tip.
Makes a great tiny-holed tip to squeeze out thin lines of glue. And costs nothing.
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14. Keep gluing the correct color of beads around the eggshell (in this case, it's the blue beads for the night sky.)
When you come to a part of the pattern that calls for a different colored bead, scoop up the correct colors on your needle. As you see in the photo below, I had reached the area, where it was time to use crystal beads for the snowman.
It took 13 or 14 crystal beads to go across the snowman part of the pattern, then I switched back to the blue "night sky" beads again.
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15. This will be the most difficult part for me to put into words ... coming to the end of the row you are working on ... and beginning the next row of beads.
When you reach the end of a row of beads, gently pull your thread out at a right angle, so you can start your next row of beads. (See photo below.) I say pull your thread "gently" because, unless you've let your row of beads dry completely, they could still be pulled loose.
Notice in the photo, the amount of thread I've left between the row of beads and that one little blue bead on the thread? That is approx the amount of thread you need to glue down, before you start your next row. A half inch will do.
Can you see in the photo, that I've laid about a half inch line of glue, right along side of the blue beads? Press the half inch of thread into that glue ... as close as you can get it to the row of beads.
This provides an "anchor" for the beginning of the next row of beads.
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16. Once you have glued the half inch of thread along the line of beads and have let it dry ... start your next row of beads ... right up against the first row. And continue on around the eggshell.
After the first few rows of beads are dried securely to the shell, start getting as many beads onto the needle as it will hold ... laying down a thin line of glue, (only as long as the row of beads on the needle.) Never lay down, too long of a line of glue, because it will make a big mess.
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