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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...

I'm attending a short course at Vaasa Opisto , held by Anne Viinikka. It's about making jewelry from recycled materials. Only thing I don't like about the course is that it is TOO SHORT. I would have been more than fine with it lasting a whole semester, let alone the two days it's going to take! Anne is a great teacher, she's funny and her jewelry is inspirational. This was the first time in, well, I think it might have been at least three years since I've made some jewelry. And I noticed straight away how rusty my skill with the pliers were. *sigh*    Anyway, I had some specific projects in mind when I arrived to the course, and I got inspiration for one more when I saw the pieces Anne presented. The first was this necklace that I needed to put a clasp on. I've had it in a small plastic bag for nearly two years now, I think. Putting a clasp lock and a name-tag on went rather quickly. Why on Earth did I wait so long to do it? T...

I realized today that I hadn't written a recap of what I had done at the Arbis "Jeans Makeover"-course back in 2-3.2.2018.  This annoys me right now to no end, because I'd like to write it all down. How else am I gonna be able to remember otherwise the process of how I made the two jeans-quilts I started then? The course was "just" about how to reuse material from old jeans and denim to create something useful, new and smart. (No, there is no "just" in that, but denim is a hard material to create something with, mainly because it's made of such thick woven cotton.) Our teacher, Carola, had a bit of show-and-tell at the beginning. Among the projects she showed were a part of a then-not-finished bag with a denim-panel made in a faux cathedral window style. (If you have no idea what I'm talking about, check here on Google .) When I (late at night two days before that) had surfed around on Pinterest about denim-projects, this was o...