Annie Shean made wallpaper beads which were strung together to make bracelets and necklaces. This was once a traditional craft, revived in the 1920's. Wallpaper was rolled around knitting needles and paste applied to stick it together. The shape and size of the beads could be varied by altering the triangular cut of paper being rolled. When dry, the beads were polished with vanish. This helped protect the paper from moisture, but it wasn't a good idea to get the beads too wet. 

In Victorian times, when this craft probably started, wallpapers coloured green, contained the highly poisonous element, arsenic. It is likely that a few Victorian ladies fell ill due to arsenic poisoning caused by their handmade jewellery. Luckily, Miss Shean's beads were made when modern wallpapers were safer. During the 1960's, wallpaper shops were found in most High Streets. These gradually disappeared when the large D-I-Y stores started emerging. Shopkeepers would discard outdated wallpaper sample books and children would sometimes ask for these because they could use the plain side as drawing paper.