Monday, April 2, 2012

CRAFT: Earrings from Recycled Plastic


Can you guess what these were in their "first life"??

So, I was tossing the inspiration for these into the trash one day (before they had a recycling program here where I live), and I thought "what a neat pattern".  I decided to experiment a little and this is what I came up with.  I took the plastic and cut out the interesting portion.  I kept trimming it until I ended with this design. It was clear, so I grabbed the pointed end Sharpie (permanent) and started to "color" from behind.  Shortly, I had a nice black and red "snake skin-like" dangle.  I searched through a box of broken jewelry and found a pair of sterling screw-backs that were incomplete--so I removed the old pieces and attached the dangles to the backs with a couple of jump rings.  Voila!  Earrings from a--did you guess where the plastic came from?--a bottle of Wish-bone® dressingI don't even eat salad dressing...but my husband does.  
I'm not even sure the bottles are made the same way now.  The point of this exercise is to remember to take a look at what you are throwing away or tossing into the recycle bin.  Can you see some other use for it...can you give it a second life?  If you love to craft, you can certainly turn your trash into treasures!

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