MAKING FANTASTIC JEWELRY

Baubles, bangles, and beads: have a little creative fun and soon you'll be wearing rings on your fingers, bracelets round your wrist, and ornaments circling your neck. Craft these pretty "jewels" with the most unbelievably ordinary materials, like paper hardened and painted; tin foil rounded into shiny "pearls"; polymer clay turned into earrings; seashells strung together; pinecones hung on wire, pieces of smooth wood knotted onto a necklace; and even foods. Many of these fantastic and colourful pieces reveal the influence of Indian, African, and South American traditions and work with nature's beautiful bounty. Fluffy white feathers, pendants of rice grains, and Italian pasta rings on coloured cord recall Native American motifs. A mosaic collar on wire - here in a fish shape, but you can trace any design you like - glistens with shiny sea glass. Every unique item will delight the imagination and the lucky recipient.