I got a kick out of a link to a hoax about a poisonous spider that lurked under toilet seats. The telamonia spider, while real, was purported to be hanging around in of all places, our worst nightmare for the discovery of poisonous or biting insects, the bathroom.

After friends saw the link on Facebook and commented that they thought it was one of my beaded spiders, I figured I had better get to work on one.

Materials: oval and round wood beads, light and dark brown and butterscotch bugle beads, light and dark brown seed beads, pewter wire, ivory enamel paint