Mario coasters

I have been recreating some of the more memorable Super Mario sprites using plastic beads, or pearls as we call them where I come from. Not only is it something fun to do with the girlfriend but with the use of an iron they can easily be turned in to pretty sweet coasters.

After trying out some different methods I have found that the most fun thing to do is to find a sprite I like with google and then try to put together a pixel perfect recreation of it by simply substituting every pixel with a pearl.