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A perfect book for anyone who likes collecting small treasures, and is excited about finding a way of giving them new life.

Jewelry & Accessories from Everyday Objects includes 19 jewelry and accessory projects based on materials that were intended for different uses altogether. Fish lures are transformed into necklace charms, fountain pen nibs are turned into tinkling beads, tiny toy zebras are paired with ponies to become delicate dangling earrings. While the items used in Jewelry & Accessories from Everyday Objects undergo a change of context, none of them is significantly modified. Fish lures remain recognizable as fish lures, miniature zebras are still obviously miniature zebras. The objects are reused -- in their original form -- and become part of a totally new creation. Each project is described with easy-to-follow instructions and accompanied by full-color photographs of key steps. Because not all readers will have the same treasures lying around their houses, each project also comes with suggestions for similar items that can be used instead. Advice on where to buy the raw materials for the projects is included as well.

• Jewelry & Accessories from Everyday Objects features 19 projects based on materials that were intended for different uses altogether.
• Each project is described with easy-to-follow instructions and accompanied by full-color photographs of key steps.
• Because not all readers will have the same treasures lying around their houses, each project also comes with suggestions for similar items that can be used instead.

Tair Parnes is a designer and instructor, and the author of Button Jewelry and Accessories (Quayside 2006) and of Beaded Jewelry Design (Sterling, 2007). Tair combines a cornucopia of materials in her work, integrating everyday materials with beads and buttons, fabric and wool, gold and silver, plastic and natural materials.