Creating Green Jewelry- Turn a Target Pharmacy Bottle into Wearable Art

Following the simple step-by-step instructions in How To Create Green Jewelry you can see how easy it is to upcycle plastic and turn it into jewelry. Upcycle? That's taking 

 something that might be thrown away and redoing it into something new. Wth a few extra steps and a lot of imagination, you can do plastic proud by transforming simple upcycled creations into Wearable Art.

Why Upcycle Plastic-

Earth day just passed; and if you tuned in to the many documentaries, news programs, or even theOprah show dedicated to cleaning up the planet, you might have heard a common theme. Plastic is a pretty big problem. We know it stays in landfills for maybe hundreds of years; but it's at the bottom of the ocean too, an underwater "landfill" about the size of Texas at least. Sea animals are getting caught in plastic six pack rings and feeding on our plastic garbage like food.

Plastic is a big problem, and not all of it can be recycled into new products; so why not figure out something nice to do with it besides pitch it in the garbage.

Pretty Plastic-

Your quest to create upcycled wearable art begins with a constant eye out for pretty plastic. Try Fructis hair products if you love neon-style green. You can find spray Cleaning products packaged in an array of colors from deep blue to orange. Shampoos and lotion bottles come in shades of lavender and white. Collect the plastic containers you find most attractive. (don't forget to recycle the rest) Soak and soap the labels away and cut them into useable pieces.

For something special, look to your local Target pharmacy for an surprisingly pretty plastic find. In their own unique style, they've done away with the drab brown plastic bottles available just about every place else; and they've replaced them with an angular vial in ruby red plastic with a lavender or red rubber neck ring quite useful for creating interesting jewelry.

What you need-

-You will need jeweler's assembly tools, pliers, wire cutters and round nosed pliers

-A pair of scissors

-A manual hole punch or something to punch a neat hole through plastic (A nail or screw perhaps)