Jewelry Challenge 2 -
Using Up Leftover Odds and Ends

Bead Tray Metal Leftovers  I am a messy beader, I'll admit it. I'll pull this and that out of my bead boxes along with a collection of metals and go to town. I work in a variety ...

Rag Rug  Inspiration can come from the most unusual places. Recently, someone attempted to publicly denigrate my work on her blog by writing that I use a simple ...

"Missing Bruce"  My husband travels and when he is gone away I miss him.

He was on a trip and I was playing with my beads and I found the alphabet "B" bead, and it made ...

Drawers-cleaning Wool Bangles   Bangles are my favorite style and last year I started making and wearing wool covered bangles, they're soft and warm and I think they're perfect to give ...

Dead Hard Drives  A couple of years ago, a friend gave me two aluminum rings that had once been part of an old and defunct computer hard drive. I used those rings in two ...

3Rs for the times  Your challenge was very timely for me since I'd spent part of the holiday season reorganizing my work space. While I had a pretty good idea of what stock ...

Circles in Circles Pendant  I was trying to find use for some circular pieces of copper I received as a gift from a construction site. I had previously created a necklace out of ...

Destiny and Desire  Because I am a gatherer, and a collector of stuff, I always have something to start inventing with, be it jewelry, or other mixed media pieces.

The ...

A Link in Time  This necklace and earring set was made of leftover pearls and coral. I was trying a wrapping technique and decided to use what I had already started. In ...

Recycled Wrist Bands  I hate the thought of dumping electronics into a landfill, so when my 15 year-old laser printer bit the dust, I took it apart looking for steampunk items ...

Potluck Bracelet  This bracelet is from leftover beads from other projects. This time I picked two colors--red and blue--to help refine my searching. I'm really bummed ...

A Strange Collection  I've been thinking about this particular challenge for several days. No firm ideas until I was emptying out a drawer and found two sets of "blousing springs"...

"The Ocean" and "A little Girl's Fancy"  I have so many odds and ends that I keep in different places. I keep waiting for some inspiration to hit. I started with my assortment of beads and separated ...

Grandmother's Attic  The charms on this necklace are all items from my childhood in the 1950's and 1960's. My mom saved so many things from my childhood, and I love remembering ...

Unhinged  So I probably went a little off-roading with this odds and ends challenged by raiding the junk drawer in the kitchen...added a few leftover bits of leather,...

Tender Petals  I received an old leather skirt as a hand-me-down, but it was tiny and hard to imagine any adult wearing it. So I set my mind to figuring out how I could ...

Berry Cocktail  A bountiful mix of semi-precious gemstones create a lush sensation in lavender and shimmering grey: amethyst, labradorite, lilac stone, snowflake obsidian....

Sanskrit OM Pendant Necklace with Pearls, peridot, vermeil spacers, and Amythest  One of my favorite things to do is create something from "leftovers".

It is also the way I cook because often times I know I can "make do" with what'...

Tokyo Gothic Choker  I had a few leftover Swarovski beads, a bit of black leather, 1/4 troy oz. of fine silver wire and a half tin each of two different sized Argentium rings....

Easy Earring Bracelet  I made this necklace so I could use up all my "Single" beads in one particular color.

This is the first (and only so far) item I have sold on Artfire ...

'Spring Birds' Ring  I made this ring around the time that silver prices were extremely unstable and constantly on the rise.

To avoid buying more silver, I gave myself the ...

Scarf Jewelry  I started making the scarf jewelry to use up silver spoons that I was not able to use for my silverware bracelets.

I had quite a collection of silverware ...

Orphan Bracelet  I actually did this a few days (this past Sunday) before your challenge so I hope I still qualify.

I have a container which I have named "Bead Soup"...

The Turtle and the Hare  The Turtle and the Hare

Except for the pewter hare and the howlite turtle fetish, every bead in this necklace came from my "orphan" bead jars.

Now,...

HandCraftedByRegina  This is a Christmas present I made for a customer. I love leftover beads.

Regina