Coastal Bohemian: Owl Book Mark

We just gave my daughter a baby shower and her theme was Woodland Critters. When I first found out about this, I saw some laser cut wooden owls at the dollar store and grabbed a whole stash of them. Over the months of planning the shower I kept saying what am I going to do with these?, what am I going to make with these?, these are so cute.

I came up with the idea of turning them into bookmarks and to give them out as an extra favor.
Here's what I did.
I used my Drexel to drill tiny holes in the owl's head.
I purchased black satin cording to use as the bookmark.

I knew I wanted beading and dug around my stash and thought some wooden beads would work well.

To add color to the beads I put a few drops of paint ,literally, drops of paint, in a plastic container and swish them around.

(If you put too much paint, it's too messy and you'll likely lose the color you want.)

After the beads are coated with paint lay them out to dry on wax paper. Now add some fine glitter. Ooh lala.

While that's drying cut an 18" piece of satin cording.
Put one end of cording through the owl and pull through approx 3". You'll want to pull a wooden bead down the length of the cord to the owl . Then thread the 3 " piece through the wooden bead. So you have 2 pieces of satin cord going through the bead. Create a knot then cut off excess from the 3" piece.
Now, add a bead to the bottom of the cord. Knot well. Cut any excess.

Finished piece is approximately 13-14"

Add a few sticky blink pieces for eyes. To ensure these stayed in place I used dots of wood glue.

You can really change the character of the owl by using different color and different size blink for eyes.