How to Make White Wood Bead Garland
Wood bead garlands are the perfect shabby chic farmhouse decor. They are so easy to make. Here is How to Make a White Wood Bead Garland. I love that you can customize them to any color you want. You can add a little something on the ends of them like a tassel, metal heart, or monogram letters, anything to your liking!
All you will need is some twine and wood beads on How to Make a White Wood Bead Garland. There are many options when buying wood beads. Paint them in your favorite color or you can buy them pre painted. I like to use chalk paint for a matte finish. Here is my paint resource page, to help make your painting life easier. Its fun to add something to the end so I added a metal heart. Adding tassels is always cute as well and very popular .
How to Make White Wood Bead Garland
To know how much twine you need. Measure however long you want the garland to be plus a half the length more for your knots. So if I am wanting my garland to be 44 inches long. My twine will be cut at 66 inches long. For more DIY project inspiration, take a look at my YouTube here.
To start I tie a big knot at the bottom leaving about one inch to attach my metal heart or tassel. I then string on a bead and tie a knot, then string on another bead. If you don’t want to keep tying knots you can add a large bead, then a smaller one in the middle and finish like this till the end. I used 1″ beads for this diy. Lastly I tie on my metal heart or any accessory you’d like.
I found the metal heart at an antique show and I’d love to find more! My 13 year old daughter made that corbel! They can be found in my shop here, she is saving up for a car!! I am so amazed by her. he followed my diy here. I hope you found this helpful on How to Make a White Wood Bead Garland
What size beads did you use for the garland?
I used one inch beads.
I thought you did a beautiful job. How large are the beads? and how long is the
garland. I’d like to possibly buy one if the length and size work.
Thanks so much Lubella. The garland is 44″ long and the beads are 1″ Hope that helped!
Regards,
Rhonda
Hi, Rhonda! I just read your post and I can certainly tell you where to get the hearts. These are called “Milagros” and they are Mexican. We have them here. These are offerings one does to a saint, Jesus, the Virgin, etc. when requesting a favour. They come in different shapes and sizes. I love using them for clothing, art, jewelry and other stuff. Feel free to contact me directly on my email and I might be able to help you. Have a happy day!
Oh! By the way, awesome post and art! 🙂
Thank you so much!! I will email you
Hi there, I too would like to k ow where to purchase the hearts for the farmhouse beads. Thank you.
Hello, I get these hearts from Etsy. Just any antique metal hearts I can find!
Love this beautiful idea!
what a cute idea….your creative juices are flowing
Thanks! I love these wood bead garlands!!