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Craft courses 2018: Making jewelry from recycled materials, part 2

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So last Wednesday I was to the last lesson on this jewelry from recycled materials course. I wrote about it last week too . In excellent course theme in my opinion, and I only wished it could have been longer. Like I previously wrote, Anne Viinikka is an excellent teacher with a clear passion for using recycled materials. She's truly creative. Because of this, I thought I'd give you a peek at her work :) I took some photos of the show-and-tell pieces she had brought with her to present ideas and what she has done in different materials. Of these materials, she had used: inner rubber of a bicycle ring (her boys apparently bike a LOT) fabric scraps, yarn and thread leather scraps (from old bags, belts and jackets, some bought second hand and some just broken and reused) buttons zippers lace (stiffened with basic potato starch based glue) the plastic "glass" of old sunglasses old silver teaspoons old keyboard keys bottle caps Let's start wit...