Toolbox Jewelry

Yesterday, 11 teens came out to make jewelry from hardware store items. The stuff turned out really well, and was pretty cheap to make. Besides the craft store jewelry findings, I got everything we needed at Home Depot! We made plastic tubing necklaces, washer zipper pulls, O-ring bracelets, and hexagon necklaces. It was very cool.

All of the designs came from the awesome craft book Hardwear: Jewelry from a Toolbox by Hannah Rogge. I love this book because the crafts are actually do-able without a lot of talent, the directions are really well done, and the final products look great. Randomly, I learned today that this book has its own MySpace page!

Making O-ring bracelets.

Modeling the finished products.

Check out the bracelets, zipper pulls, and necklaces!