Recently I have got into the whole idea of 'upcycling', which basically means recycling old materials and then changing them into something new.

A lot of my copper jewellery is made from recycled electrical wire which I have stripped and turned into pieces of jewellery. However over the last few days I have been experimenting more with fabric and turning these into pieces of jewellery. I got hold of a bag of leather scraps a couple of months ago knowing that it would be wasteful to throw them away. After thinking about it a while I have decided that I am going to make cuff bracelets out of them.

Here is a picture of my first ever one. I have used an old button as a fastener for the cuff.

I really enjoyed making it and I wil be making more over the next week to sell in my shop.