Hello all, my seven year old has recently discovered this hobby and is obsessed. She has no access to the internet on her own but I’ve shown her some of the work you lovely people have posted here and she’s been inspired. She asked me to put some of her work “on the internet” so other people can freely use her ideas or be inspired as well. She’s spent almost all of her pocket money on new beads and plates, I found a decent set second hand and bought beads for her as well, but she has an idea to remedy the issue of dwindling funds, selling her own pieces. She recently set up shop for one day at a local flea market. 

I love the fact that she’s being creative, not asking for a screen (she rarely does anyway, thank god) and is often gifting her creations to friends and family and teachers and neighbors. 

So here are the pictures she requested I post online, as well as her flea market set up (we live in Germany so she wrote the sign in German). 

You all seem like a wonderful community, and once she’s old enough for the internet I’m sure she will join you all here. 

Any tips or tricks for a young newbie in the hobby are greatly appreciated. As well as ironing techniques. Sometimes I melt the beads too much or too little and haven’t managed to find the sweet spot yet. 

New to the hobby