My camera is broken!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Make photopearls.

I went to the Craft Super Show in Orlando, FL at the Orange County Convention Center. They actually had the biggest scrapbook crop ever on Friday night. They also had Mary Engelbreit as a guest speaker. Honestly, I never really got into scrapbooking. Maybe one day, but I'm just not a big scrapbooker right now...so a lot of stuff at the crafts show was boring and overcrowded. I have never seen so many women screaming over a cutting product.

I did find something to interest me though. I came across this both called, "Photopearls." From a distance, it looks like ultra pixelated images, but it's actually made entirely out of beads! And the best part was that it was free!


They took my picture and printed out a sheet with rows out circles filled with numbers. They number coordinated with a bead color. Then there was a clear, pin board that you placed on top of the print out. You place the beads on and when you're done, you stick a sticky sheet of paper on the back and remove the beads from the pin board. When they printed out the sheet of paper earlier, they actually reversed the image.


The end result looks amazing from far away. This is what it looks like close up. A lot of women would put the beads on row by row but I just did it color by color. It saved a lot of time. I actually finished when other people that I sat down with had just gotten there.

The line for this place was insannneee. We got there at the perfect time between crowd. I think they were giving away a free gypsy so everyone was gathered around there. People were crazy stalking seats to make their own photopearl. The kits were $50, which is a bit pricy but it comes with software that can map out your picture.

They actually made the largest bead picture ever of Obama. I think it's going to Washington D.C. soon.