Upcycle Jewellery - Why I Love Creating Unique Jewellery Designs

Upcycling Definition (Wikipedia): is the process of converting waste materials or useless products into new materials or products of better quality or for better environmental value.

Upcycling jewellery is a specialist area of jewellery design  as  you are ultilising waste, broken or unusual materials original used from a different sources to create beautiful jewellery designs. A  good upcycle jewellery designer can  and does create jewellery pieces which always looks better than the original starting material. It's a creative area that really challenges the  mind of the designer.

I personally love creating upcycle jewellery, for two reasons the first being  that I care about the environment,(yes our planet earth), and two,  we in the West tend to discard old clothing, broken jewellery with no thought to where it goes. Most of the time, these items  are placed in landfill where , they decay and rust, which leads to more pollution.

So what is the solution....... easy, recycle or upcycle !!

Below are some of my upcycle jewellery designs. The first is a dramatic necklace created with washing machine washer rings. I connected the rings to electric metallic blue beads and small oblong metal beads. I adore this necklace.

My second jewellery design is a bracelet created with plastic gold coloured button, which I purchased from my local market. I finished off the piece with a stunning gold plated toggle. I'm receiving a lot of lovely feedback from friends that, they love the bracelet.

My final design was also created with buttons and takes on a vintage look. I added gold swarovski crystals to finish the  earrings. I love them, they look beautiful.

Upcycling is the way forward for the jewellery industry, a  specialist upcycle jewellery maker will always be able to recreate a beautiful jewellery design from broken  jewellery. Unusual discarded materials can be used to create unique designs and our beautiful earth will see less landfill.

I've created a Facebook page dedicated to the talented international upcycle jewellery designers. Please check out the page you'll be pleasantly surprised: Upcycle Jewellery Facbook page.

If you wish me to create a beautiful piece of jewellery from your broken jewellery, please do not hesitate to contact  at euphenabeaded jewellery@hotmail.com.