{"id":496,"date":"2010-10-06T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/2010\/mosaic-hanging-decorations-and-jewellery-with-recycled-lids\/"},"modified":"2010-10-06T12:55:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T11:55:00","slug":"mosaic-hanging-decorations-and-jewellery-with-recycled-lids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/mosaic-hanging-decorations-and-jewellery-with-recycled-lids\/","title":{"rendered":"Mosaic hanging decorations and jewellery with recycled lids!"},"content":{"rendered":"
A recipe for children’s jewellery and hanging decorations<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n

Take some lids, the kind you would normally throw away (milk & juice bottle,\u00a0 jam jar…)<\/p>\n

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Buy some tile adhesive (white creamy stuff, same consistency as peanut butter – pre-mixed in a tub from Pound \/ Dollar store or mix your own from powdered tile adhesive from DIY shop – both very cheap)<\/p>\n

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If you are going for hanging variety (tree decoration or necklace pendant), make two small holes in the lid. Use heated skewer for plastic lids (don’t breathe in fumes) or a nail and hammer for metal lids.Then hook some wire through to form a loop.<\/p>\n

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Fill lid with creame tile adhesive.<\/p>\n

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Get some sparkly things – glass nuggets, beads, broken mosaic tiles (note, if you think you might get into doing mosaic projects, invest in some cheap tile nippers. They look like this<\/a>…and it means you can use old bathroom tiles as well as mosaic tiles for lots of making fun!)<\/p>\n

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Stick your sparkly things into the tile adhesive. Make sure you embed tiles well, so they don’t fall out.<\/p>\n

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Add appropriate hanging mechanism – sticky badge pins for brooches, ribbon for necklaces or string for hanging decorations (I use dental floss!)<\/p>\n

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Here’s our variations on the theme :<\/p>\n

A beady brooch – we used a bit of extra PVA\/white glue to make sure the piles of beads stay in place<\/p>\n

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A little face brooch made with glass nugges and some broken tiles (but you can experiment with small beads for the pupils and lips, if you don’t have tiles and nippers…)<\/p>\n

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Our tree hanging decoration, which doubles up as a pretty child’s necklace.<\/p>\n

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Some more tree hangy things made with jam lids.<\/p>\n

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As you can see, we have done quite a few of these – a great way of recycling! Anyone who has followed this blog may have noticed that I have a thing <\/em>about hanging pretty things in trees… especially good on bare branches for winter I think! And Christmas tree decor of course…<\/p>\n

More tutorials for hanging decorations here <\/a>and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Have fun making \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A recipe for children’s jewellery and hanging decorations Take some lids, the kind you would normally throw away (milk & juice bottle,\u00a0 jam jar…) Buy some tile adhesive (white creamy stuff, same consistency as peanut butter – pre-mixed in a tub from Pound \/ Dollar store or mix your own from powdered tile adhesive from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,26,23,18,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artful-living","category-get-creative-arty-crafty-tutorials-and-ideas","category-make-mosaics-with-children","category-mosaic-loving","category-mosaic-tips-n-tricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}