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Hey all! I've been a longtime lurker and just got around to joining because I wanted to show off my first project in a long time.

My best friend's birthday is in July, and since I am leaving for school on Saturday, I wanted to get her gift ready before I left since she will be visiting me about a week before her actual birthday. Anyway, I had this idea to take a picture of us and then pixelate it in photoshop and put little pictures in the pixels. Then I realized that it is hot and I do not want to spend that much time in front of my computer.

So instead I printed the picture, taped it on my window to trace it since I am not artistically inclined, and then spent about 8 to 10 hours total gluing about a million seed pearls onto the picture to color it in:









It didn't photograph as well as I would have liked, because my camera is really cheap and the beads are shiny (and the room was dark), but I think it turned out sort-of decently.