Recycling tips?

"Christi Conley" wrote in message
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Hi everyone!
I was wondering if you all would share your
recycling tips - what do you recycle to make your
jewelry? Or, use to keep your supplies? Or, anything
else that you use recycling for : )

Thanks!

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Christi
Stampin' Up! Representative
Art Without Anxiety
www.ArtWithoutAnxiety.com
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I keep almost every scrap of clean metal like copper, brass, silver, gold,
aluminium, steel, titanium, etc... I also keep plastics like acrylic,
bakelite, simulated ivories, etc.....I look for old damaged jewellery and
repair it too(eventually!) I like recycled jewellery like when people use
old toys and tincans and turn them into unusual one-offs. Jewellery making
is one of the rare hobbies/professions that recycling is almost instinctive,
like the gold or silver you wear has been recycled for millenia in most
cases. Recycling is only limited by your imagination!!!

In article , "Christi Conley"
writes:

what do you recycle to make your
jewelry? Or, use to keep your supplies? Or, anything
else that you use recycling for : )

Well, I do beadwork, so my recycling probably isn't what you mean....
I've given scaps of fine silver wire to people learning lampworking, and I've
used small pieces of SS and GF imbedded in poly-clay. Usually store such bits
and pieces in film cans until I get around to doing something with them.
Beads unsuitable for stringing-- I've glued them to various objects, like
flower pots. Also used them as "mulch" and as fish-tank gravel. Beads that are
merely "ugly" or "cheap" looking get offered first to my kids (they LIKE Indian
lampwork...), and if they don't want the stuff, it goes to a "kids' crafts" box
for whichever group expresses an interest.
I also recycle the packaging I get the beads in.....
Kaytee
"Simplexities" on
www.eclecticbeadery.com
http://www.rubylane.com/shops/simplexities