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Ever think you could make recycled jewelry from recycled items like parts and used clothes? The key is to keep your eye out for raw materials buried in the rough. The gems of the recycled materials world are out there waiting for you to find them! Scouring thrift stores is part of the deal.
Ebay is a great place to find used items and gently used jewelry supply items. But thrift shops can be great resources for findings, clips, and other makings of jewelry if you take existing earrings necklaces and bracelets apart. Factory parts and pieces can form unusual shapes in simple statements.
Creativity is not absolutely required. Simply attaching freestyle clay shapes enamelled and fired with holes in them can make jewelry out of mere stray objects. Buying small batches of findings on Ebay and using them for cut glass earring pieces mounted on folded wire can be an adventure in experimentation.
Earrings as jewelry have a sentimental value as well as a commercial value. More things to do with free recycled stuff can be found at sites which describe various projects and crafts enforcing the re-use mission. Recycling has become a hobby. But like many ideas that start out as hobbies they can end up being businesses.
At websites like recycle.cc those looking for recycling resources can get ideas. Market intelligence for composting and recycling is a good report. Eco Artware, Ecoist, Terracycle, Alchemy Goods, and GreenandMore.com are also good places to visit.
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