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a very beaded birthday

Remember those multi-coloured plastic beads that were all the rage in primary school? You’d arrange them in your design of choice (a basic butterfly or heart, probably), then fuse them together using an iron – or water, depending on the brand.

Rachel Burke, Brisbane’s arty tinsel queen and our issue 120 cover artist, has been experimenting with inexpensive kids’ crafts a lot these past couple years. In the spirit of prioritising secondhand and recycled materials, she’s turned

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