What do you do with a pile of old jewelry? Maybe you wonder if any of it is worth anything. We live near a jewelry store where people will bring their old items in, to get an expert opinion. Maybe you have a treasure, but more often, you have costume jewelry!
So, since the items were tucked away, unused, in a pile, when you find it’s not particularly valuable, you might just wave it off, tell the shop to drop it in the trash. So the store near us drops it in a bucket. They have been doing this for over seven decades! So they have a lot of it.
What to do with a pile of old paste? Well how about making mosaics? A trip to the local thrift shop yielded a pile of old frames, and with a bit of velvet or other good background fabric, plus some glue, and you’re in business!
Here we have some examples, where velvet is glued across the glass, and then various pieces of costume jewelry are made into mosaics.
It’s nice to be able to make interesting things from old and unwanted items.