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Interview with Nancy’s WildWire Jewelry and Art

Today’s interview is with Nancy of Nancy’s Wild Wire Jewelry and I invite you to check out her wonderful hand crafted wire jewelry when you get done reading this interview!

So, how did you become an entrepreneur? What lead you to this business that you are in now 

Trash Craft – crafting like a kid again

Have you ever thought of the things you can turn your trash into? You can create unusual and unique art out of string, wire and all kinds of discarded items. Toys and other things can be turned into new useful items for your home or office.

• Use an old, rusted children’s wagon as the base for your new coffee table.
• Turn broken dishes into a wonderful mosaic art piece.
• Make wind chimes from assorted tableware. We’ve used mismatched forks, spoons, and knives. But, you could go bigger and use serving spoons, spatulas and metal measuring cups.
• You can even use old toys and other items to create an unusual sculpture. Some school children have created grand sculptures that are displayed in their own communities.

If you run into a wall when trying to think of things to use or what to do with discards, ask your children, nieces and nephews, or your neighbor’s kids. They always seem eager to share their child-like nature with whoever seeks such enlightenment.

Whether you choose to recycle for fun, play, art or environmental preservation, there is plenty to be done with the rising piles of garbage our society throws out every single day.

Just do a little research and digging, and let your inner child out to play. You might be very surprised at the real value in some of the items you run across. And, you might be fortunate enough to fashion some clever new household item or decoration out of yesterday’s trash.

Use your imagination – that’s your only limitation. Can you develop the mind of a child?

Trash Craft – recycling paper into useful items

Newspapers:You can do a lot with old newspapers. You could use parts of it as wrapping paper. My gramma used to wrap our gifts with the Sunday funnies because she thought it was funny. You could keep certain sales flyers to wrap gifts too. Perhaps using irony to wrap a gift with a flyer featuring the same type of item that you are gifting? See if the receiver gets the message.

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Trash Craft – turning cans into useful items

Today’s post about trash crafting and recycling items into art takes a look at using metal cans.

Old pop and beer cans are turned into funny, useful, ingenious items.

Soda can camera

Check out the pop can turned Camera.

Pull tab jewelry

How about this set of jewelry made from the pull tabs on pop cans? How much fun is that?

And what do you think of these beer cans turned into air planes? There is some great creativity being displayed here!

beer can airplane

Beer can airplane

Check out the fabulous ships, tractors, race cars, helicopters and planes this guy makes! And so much more too! Watch him make a plane while he’s talking to the camera.