Flip Flop Beads
Not surprisingly I made beads from my new corn cockle cane. Today I wired up some of the flip flop style ones into a bracelet.

Not satisfied with stringing and glueing my fingers together I had to try for a wire only solution to my flip flop bracelet.
The uppers are cooked, wired with the bead strap and then twisted underneath to make the outgoing loop. A raw, slightly textured sole is applied over this and voila! Beads.
The earrings are simpler, instead of a length of wire coming out the heel of the shoe, just cut the bead string part short, flatten and lay the sole over. I used a little TLS to help glue the raw sole to the cooked top
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Those came out lovely! I esp like the two tone and the contrast of the black with the pink and white!
[...] wrote about how I make these last year, using a combination of Kathy Weinberg’s tutorial, my friend Carolyn’s [...]
I have spent a good hour or two going through you sight and I have been so inspired. I have just started doing cane and have found that I have had a lot of waste. You mentioned that you had the same problem. I was wondering how you solved this problem. Thank you for the good read.