DIY | Charm Bobbins

This DIY really couldn't be much simpler: jazz up a hair bobbin with a charm and it will double as a bracelet when you wear it on your wrist.

I think they'd probably even make a cute and inexpensive present if you made three or so and tied them together with a ribbon. Especially since everyone ALWAYS needs hair bobbins!! 

"Thanks for dinner/Happy Monday/Good luck/insert-appropriate-message" says you, "I got you a little gift - some functional hair ties, customised just for you!" 

And the friends lived happily ever after.

Ingredients:

1. Hair bobbin
2. Charm
3. Jump ring

Plus: pliers

Supplies | Scavenging DIY Materials

Beads can be hard to find cheaply, especially if you want to use a lot of them. One solution is to buy cheap bracelets and necklaces, or find them in second-hand and charity shops, and then cut them up to use the beads for other projects. The beads from this pack of bracelets from Primark would have cost much more than €5 had I bought them individually. Hurrah for Primark and cheap jewelery!

Guitar-string Bracelets

Seeing the old stings of my brother's guitar in the bin after he had restrung them seemed a shame. Rather than throwing them out, they make quite beautiful bracelets! If you aren't lucky enough to have friends family of aquaintences who play the guitar (or you find that they can't re-string them fast enough!) you can ask at music shops ; they often re-string guitars and are quite happy to give away old strings that they would otherwise throw out.