Hi, I'm Sophie and welcome to my world and today i have the fabulous Frankie
joining me and guess what we're gonna make today Frankie....
exactly a curtain up we're gonna make a locker curtain
exactly but it could be if you don't have a locker some people don't have
lockers could use it in your bedroom you can make them as long as short as you
want them to be and we are going to teach you how to make this appt yeah
curtain right now
Oh for this project we're gonna need some inexpensive stuff we need a plastic
ruler 13 beaded necklaces paper clips duct tape scissors an x-acto knife and
a glue gun
so Frankie this time we're not going to be using this ruler to measure we're
actually going to be using this ruler as our base now do you remember
one of the first things you ever filmed with me with a curtain do you
remember that yes I do out of paper clips made out of paper clips but this time we're
going to use beads and these beads i got at the dollar store they came in a pack
of six of them for like a dollar because the dollar store so it's pretty
inexpensive to make and I was able to get like three of these for a dollar so
really nice inexpensive way to make a little beaded curtain so Frankie we're
gonna make this for a locker and because lockers aren't enormous we're going to
cut these in half but if you wanted to make this for like your door in
your home you could just cut them at one end here and make them
longer
you just need double the number so okay let's see if you can see how it's beaded
together like there's a little place here where you might cut in between the
beads so what I want you to do is I want you to take your scissors and just cut
in between two of those beads
yep right like that and then just hold these together
flip them around
excellent and now you would do this for all of your beaded necklaces and we
would need 13 of these so these we've already cut some ahead of time here so
you can throw those in with the other ones great and now we're going to start
putting this together now the way we want to do this is actually use our
measurements so we're going to start on the outer edges so what would you like
the pattern to be right here we've got red silver and purple which would you
like to use silver and purple okay right so you just want to go back and forth
between silver and purple
yeah super so we're going to start on the outer edges and i'm going to lay a
line of glue right down here along the side
ok and then Frankie you're going to put that one right along there just watch
your finger so you don't get those fabulous nails of yours stuck in the
glue love those nails now the one rule that i have learned about doing these is
work from the outside in and that way you can adjust the pattern when you get
to the center to make sure that the pattern always looks right so we're
going to put a line of glue over on this side and then what's great about the
ruler is you get to use the marks on the ruler and at every half-inch you're
going to lay another line of glue great super so I'm gonna lay the lines of glue
and you can lay down your pattern so you get silver and then purple great and
we're going to the other side and again we're going to do this at the half inch
mark all the way along so every half-inch we're gonna run a line of glue
so we're going to actually jump ahead a little bit so you want to grab the one
that we started earlier together and as you can see Frankie and I have our
pattern going here we worked from the outside and look if you look right in
the center here I've left one more for us to glue can you see what it's going
to be
silver or red
you tell me red red and it is exactly the one that fits between the two of these
which is red
that's why i say work from the outside in ok so let's lay a line of glue
Frankie and then we'll go to the next step
ok so here goes your spot for red excellent now what we want to do Frankie
is we want to seal this in and make sure that this stays nice and secure right so
we're going to use our handy-dandy duct tape so I'm gonna pull out a little bit
more than 12 inches here about 14 inches you mind holding that for just a second
just so i can cut this and we use our exacto knife so we get a nice even cut
there so what we're going to do is put this right over top right at the edge
ok and smooth it down
that's a girl and then what we're going to do is flip it over and now if you
would be so kind i'm going to cut this little edge here and cut this little
edge here and this is where an exacto knife comes really in handy and then flip
that down on to the backside excellent and smooth it really good
what this is going to do is this is going to help to make sure that those
beads don't pull away from the ruler so then Frankie fold your edges in great
and you fold this edge in great
yep you got it
that's ok don't worry sometimes that snags up like that that's it great
actually do you have lockers at school
no no so now what we're going to do is we've got the extra little tabs here and
we're just going to use our exacto knife to trim this part off and it's okay
because we're going to come back and put another piece of tape on here anyway so
we do that flip 'er back over and we're just going to take a small piece of tape
for the back right this one is not going to go over the edges because we don't
need it to do so i'm just going to cut you want to cut it go right ahead excellent
oh sorry that's OK you didn't get me you always have to of course be
very careful with x-acto knives you know what I measured too big so how about cut
right there right here i'm just giving you your xacto knife practice there
excellent
so now we'll pick it up and we're gonna put it on top right like that you want
to lay it on
sure so now the only thing that's left here Frankie is to flip it, flip it
go ahead
the only thing that's left here now is to add a way to hang it in your locker
now some lockers are made out of metal so you could put on the backside here
you could put three magnets
exactly and the only thing that you would need to make sure about with those
magnets is to make sure that they were polarized so that they're all going in the
right direction but you can also use paper clips and you can hang them up
with little hooks like 3M hooks because I've been learning that a lot of
people don't actually have metal lockers anymore they have wooden lockers or
plastic lockers and so that it helps to have something that has hooks on it so
we're going to use our some paper clips here and I'm just gonna put a little bit
of hot glue in the corner and then do you want to take this paper
clip and just place it there so that the top end that bigger end sticks
over-the-top exactly and then we're going to do it on the other side here
too and this would be the you know if you wanted to make this for your room
this would be the way you would hang it for your room too
there you go and then of course just to make sure that they're secure and stay
and don't pull out we're going to add a little bit of duct tape now on the front
side if you wanted to you could of course add different embellishments like
washi tape or duct tape or more beads whatever you want to do and then you
know it's your project you can get as crazy as you want to
so while we going to let you put these pieces over top while we sign off you
get to decide how you want to decorate your front and i will tell everybody
that if you've got more ideas that you want for your locker just write them
down below in our comments and also if you like us give us a big thumbs up
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stuff at sophie-world.com ok what do you want to use beads tape tape tape it
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