Sunday, September 26, 2010

Blog Carnival - Using Recycled Materials (Sun, 26 Sept)

I can't believe that its been a month since the last SATeam blog carnival!  The subject for this month is how we use recycled materials in our creations.

Traditionally a silver girl, recently I have been playing with brass, copper and bronze elements in my work.  With old is new again - I have much pleasure in visiting second hand stores for old jewels to pull apart and recreate into new pieces, ramaging through recycling shops for components I can use and even the hardware store is a good place to go.  There is nothing better than pulling apart a piece and using the materials to create a unique piece of jewellery. 

Here is a piece I created with the chain and Swarovski crystals coming from a necklace I picked up in a second hand shop and the wire used to wrap the leaves was picked up in a recycling shop.  They were the perfect component for the leaves I made from bronze and copper clay.





I found this piece of rubber the other day whilst visiting a recycle shop - my plan will be to use this as a base for a choker necklace.



These off -cuts of leather ...


... will be used to create anoter cuff



So in this day and age of the disposable society - beauty can be found.

Check out what some of my friends from our team do with recycled materials.

The FamiLee Jewels

Danagonia Enchanted Jewelry

6 comments:

  1. Great necklace! Love those leaves.. all I ever find in second hand stores is JUNK!

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  2. I love your cuff and the leaves turned out really well, with that necklace you are all set for autumn.

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  3. Great post on this topic. I love the leather cuff!!

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  4. Great finds Caron. The leather is beautiful but I can't wait to see what you do with the rubber ring.

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  5. Very nice work! Like Bonnie said, I can't wait to see what you do with the rubber ring!

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  6. Love that leather! I look forward to seeing that rubber in a finished piece too.

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