By Ava Blu and Obinna
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| Ella wearing our Cheese-It earrings |
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| You can see how easily the plastic can rip |
In the process of making the jewelry, we had the challenge of only had one needle so we had to have endless patience to make tiny holes in the piece of garbage we were using. We had to make the hole not too big and not too small, it was very tedious and very annoying. In the end, one of us just has to do it but after maker fair was done, Ava Blu found this hole puncher that punches out little holes, which would have been more convenient. We also learned
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| Mango Earrings |
Having to go through the trash really made us realize how much labor and resources it takes to clean, dry, make, and assemble the jewelry.
Going thru this process we discovered that we really enjoyed making jewelry and we’d actually like to sell this jewelry and make a little business out of it. We feel that we wouldn’t want to injure or kill any innocent animals and further hurt the earth (also making money that we could put into supporting organizations and ourselves).
Estimated Cost of this Project: $20.96
If you want to try this yourself you can watch this awesome tutorial and get this jewelry kits and hardware to get you started.
#save the animals #save the earth #bling #fast fashion #reuseable fashion #Garbage earing art
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| Close up of Ava Blu making earrings |
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| The garbage we collected |
