DIY Silicone Beads Package – Clip-on Bag Pendant – Mommy + Girl – Wood

Materials: Silicone Beads & Metal Pendant
Difficulty: Simple – Medium

This kit contains all the supplies you need to be able to make a homemade clip-on bag pendant from silicone beads. In this case specifically the bag hanger with the girl in Wood and the text Mama. We also name above all the materials in this set. Should you want to substitute an item, for example a brunette girl for a blonde girl you can put it together yourself. You then simply search on the supplies below and then replace the girls silicone lucky doll with another one. The girls can be found under luxury beads the LuckyJo Heads and Bodies section.

A pendant like this one is very easy to make. However, we do recommend the use of combination pliers here. If you do not already have these, you will also find them among our tools. First, it comes with a Clip-on hook. This is a round hook containing a segment that folds inward. This ring is a bit larger than a standard key ring and therefore fits perfectly around the handle of a bag. To this Clip-on Ring we are going to make the pendants.

To begin with, the lucky doll. You will receive a pendant. Of these, the balls at the top and bottom can be unscrewed. After unscrewing either side thread the beads on this. Then press it firmly onto the rod (the entire thread must remain free) and hold it firmly in one hand. With the other hand, twist the ball back on. TIP: Some combinations are a bit “fuller.” In doing so, press down well on the rod first so you can easily tighten the ball. If you do not do this, the silicone beads sometimes press on the ball quite quickly, even though it is only tightened on the thread a little bit. This can be bad for the quality for the threads.

We are going to connect this pendant to the Clip-on hook. You can hang it directly from the ring, but we find it more convenient to use a musketon hook. This also because we are going to make a second pendant with it. This is where combination pliers come in handy. You bend open the top ring of the pendant, hook it to the musketon hook and press it closed again. If you have a slightly larger/coarser combination pliers, you can put a small piece of kitchen roll between them, for example. That way you won’t damage the pendant itself.

Next, we get to the “Mommy” pendant. We actually make this in a similar way to an ordinary keychain. You take the silver satin cord and lay it double. Now you have a loop on one side and two ends on the other. Then we look at our pendant that we already have. At the bottom of the musketon hook we just used is a ring-shaped part, to this we just made the metal pendant. To this, too, we are going to make the Mama pendant. You grab the satin cord by the side of the loop and thread it through this opening for a bit. Then grab the ends and put them through the loop and pull.

You can now start threading the beads on this. Optionally, tie a knot at the top before threading and pull your beads over it. We usually don’t do this ourselves because we like to choose to use smaller beads and you can’t get rid of the knot as well in these. In addition, we feel it contributes little for a creation such as this. It doesn’t actually add anything. After you have threaded all the beads on it, we need to make another knot. For key chains, we recommend not using a flat knot. This is because the ends then tend to move left and right. What you do is you put an e-shaped loop on the table after which you put the ends through this loop.

First pull this very gently toward the beads. Next, make sure the beads are as tight as possible on the string against the key ring. Then with your other hand, slide the knot up as much as possible and pull the knot tight. This way of making keychains is a real must-have skill. It may take some practice the first time, but as you do it more often it gets easier and easier! You cut the ends after about 1 cm after the knot. Another tip, burn the ends very briefly with a lighter. I often turn on the lighter and in a smooth motion, put the ends just past/through. This will keep your keychain from fraying.