Beading for Halloween! Beady Ideas to  Spook up your Holiday
As a kid my favorite costume to dress up in was the home-made gypsy costume. I would pile on layers of skirts and scarves and then load up on the jewels. I remember my Mom letting me borrow her pins and strands of beads, and the biggest earrings I could find. Then I’d head out and jangle all over the neighborhood loading up my plastic pumpkin with candy (which I would have traded in for beads in a heartbeat!) I felt like a princess with all my baubles. Oh, those were good old days!
 
Zooming ahead to today
You’re in for a trick or treat this Halloween… with these great beading ideas to incorporate into your costume this year! Or maybe you’re just looking to festive up your home with a few decorations bead-style. Fear not! These ideas are ghoul. Er, I mean cool!
 
Want to be a vampire victim? 
You’ll need to let everyone know your neck has been nibbled on! Use a piece of clear stretchy cord to string on two Swarovski bicone beads in size 4 mm, securing them with a small dab of glue to hold them in place (about 1 1/2” apart). Add a simple clasp to the back, creating a choker necklace. Now, when you wear it, make sure you put those two bicones in the right positions on the side of your neck so they look like bite marks! This would be fun to wear to work with your regular clothing… see if anyone notices!
 
Perhaps you just want to ooze some beads. I mean, blood
Don’t put your stretchy elastic away yet! Get our some red beads and string them onto headpins in various lengths, and then turn a loop at the top. You’ll need around 5 of these. Now, string them onto the elastic with more red beads spacing them out, and it will look like you’ve got a slice in your neck dribbling red beady blood out! Gore to the max! But in a pretty, beady kind of way. 
 
Zombeads! 
Have any body parts laying around that you’d like to re-attach? Well, just get out your black eyeliner to make stitch marks around your neck, and then tie a piece of black cording loosely around your neck with the knot in the front, and a large crewel needle hanging from it. Just in case you have to re-sew something on, of course.
 
Witch colors to choose… 
Does your witch hat need to be jazzed up a bit? Make a necklace for it! Make the size big enough to rest at the base of the cone shape, and just string lots of good stuff in Halloween colors… orange, black, yellow, purple and green. Make a mulit-strander and put a clasp on it so that it can double as a necklace for you, if you so choose! 
 
Decorate your lair!
Some arachnid creepy crawlers would look great on your table! Use our black Lucite beads in different sizes to create the body of a spider. Just use a piece of black wire to string them with a tiny head and big bottom, and then make either a small loop on either end, or maybe a spiral would do the job. Then, simply cut a few lengths of wire and wind them in between the beads, bending them into spidery leg shapes. Oh, and make sure there’s 8 of them! These can rest on your table or you can attach them onto your curtains or wherever you think a spider should be lurking for his next prey!
 
Not sure what to be for Halloween this year? Well, put on ALL your jewels, baubles and beads, and go as the crazy bead lady! :-) Have a spooktacular holiday, and be safe out there.