Recycle to Create Bangles in any Size, Texture, or Color
Bangles!, a newly published eBook from TimpyWorks, comes at a time when it is again fashionable to create and wear one's own designs. Bangles! is a 30-page eBook giving step-by-step instructions for making the kind of bangles that PEOPLE magazine described as the "trend of the season."
Cumberland, WI (PRWEB) June 27, 2005 –- Bangles!, a newly published eBook
from TimpyWorks, comes at a time when it is again fashionable to create and wear
one’s own designs. A recent article in the American Marketing Association’s
newsletter, originally published in The Birmingham Post on June 15, covers this
trend in detail.
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Bangles!
is a 30-page eBook giving step-by step instructions for making the bangles that
are described by many as the trend of the season. “No thanks to me,” says Donna
Grimstvedt of TimpyWorks, an educational and publishing firm in northwestern
Wisconsin. “I didn’t even know they were popular. I was just making them because
I thought they were beautiful and because I loved making them.” It wasn’t until
a friend told her how fashionable her bangles were that she decided to write and
publish a guidebook to cover all the bangle-making methods she’d learned during
her months of experimenting.
Although Donna’s specialty for several years
has been hypertufa garden art—hypertufa is a blend of Portland cement, peat
moss, and other aggregates such as sand and perlite—you can’t make hypertufa
outside in the garage during Wisconsin’s winters because it’s just too cold. It
was her acute sense of missing hypertufa in the wintertime that inspired her to
invent a mixture that mimicked the appearance of hypertufa. Additional
experimenting taught her how to use her mixture to give a variety of finishes to
the jewelry she creates.
Embellishments such as shells, buttons, beads,
marbles, wire, and fabric can be used to decorate bangles made using this recipe
for bangles that includes recycled plastic bottles, craft foam, paint, and glue.
“No one can believe it when I tell them how I make these and how easy they are
to make. The response is always, ‘You’re kidding, right?’”
“My mom thinks
the bangle that I gave her is beautiful. She said that it reminds her of
Bakelite jewelry.”
“Now that’s quite a compliment for a bangle made from
recycled materials,” says Donna. “I’ve seen what those Bakelite bangles are
being sold for on eBay.”
You can find more information about Bangles! at
http://www.timpyworks.com.
TimpyWorks, established in
2000 and located in northwestern Wisconsin, conducts hypertufa garden art
workshops throughout the spring, summer, and early autumn. On the web at http://www.timpyworks.com,
TimpyWorks also publishes eBooks filled with step-by-step instructions for
creating both jewelry and garden art.
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