Upcycled Earrings Made From Toy Dinosaurs - Silver Corythosaurus
I adore the contrast between the humor in toy dinosaurs and the elegance of silver and beautiful glass beads! I have a secret desire for someone to wear these with a cocktail gown :) How does one make dinosaur earrings? I buy a lot of used toys in lots at yard sales and online, and I started collecting a whole bunch of tiny toys that weren't suitable for any of my other projects. After staring at them for months, I finally figured out that they would make excellent jewelry, and the dinosaur earrings were born! This pair has been drilled, primed and painted with acrylic black and silver paint, finished with a coat of poly, and then finished with wired beads and a metal ear hook. So much fun! Height (from dinosaur feet to top of earring hook): 2 3/4" Width (from tip of dinosaur tail to nose): 2" Thanks for looking and please feel free to contact me with any questions!
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Welcome to Found Beauty Studio! This is my one woman attempt to bring a little fun back into the world with bright and functional recycled found object art. I've always been a maker of things. Always. But if you'd told me when I walked out of college with a bachelor's in theatre arts a decade ago in Massachusetts that I'd end up running my own art studio in Burlington, Vermont, I would have called you crazy. I had plans to go on to a successful and illustrious career in costume and set design, and then took a u-turn and worked in program direction and fundraising for nonprofits, and then as a community organizer for local government, and then burned out on the whole 70-hour-work-week-in-a-cubicle life and headed back to art.
Life takes funny twists and turns, and here I am, happier than I could have imagined in the upstairs of a house in the Old North End with my wood worker husband, three fluffy cats, and two turtles (one of whom is fast approaching 30 years old), using my maker-of-things skills to upcycle found materials into new creations. While I do create fine art pieces, my primary love is creating functional pieces - lamps, tote bags, jewelry, furniture, clothing, home goods, planters…the list goes on. I find great joy in taking a used up, forgotten and discarded object and turning it into a one of a kind piece that someone will use and love.
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