Recycled Rings

As promised, today I'm going to take you through one of my processes.

Recycled Rings are part of a somewhat ongoing collection featuring the things that I come across in my bag of donated jewellery. It's fun project. I take interesting looking buttons or more than likely - clip on earrings from the bag. Then I take it apart until I'm left with just the cabochon. Next it's gently cleaned with bicarb paste and an old toothbrush and then enjoys a bath in my ultrasonic cleaner. Once it's been dried and polished it's either carefully glued onto a ring shank or secured in a seed beaded setting. Once the glue has dried or the thread has been snipped - it's finally ready to be worn as a beautiful ring and sold on Etsy, or snuck by my Mom into her jewellery box. You'd be amazed at how many things disappear in there! ;)
The next time I make one, I'll photograph the process and add them to this post. Meanwhile click "read more" to see some of my finished Recycled Rings...