Recycle to Create Bangles in any Size, Texture, or Color

Bangles!, a newly published eBook from TimpyWorks, comes at a time when it is again fashionable to create and wear one's own designs. Bangles! is a 30-page eBook giving step-by-step instructions for making the kind of bangles that PEOPLE magazine described as the "trend of the season."

Cumberland, WI (PRWEB) June 27, 2005 --- Bangles!, a newly published eBook from TimpyWorks, comes at a time when it is again fashionable to create and wear ones own designs. A recent article in the American Marketing Associations newsletter, originally published in The Birmingham Post on June 15, covers this trend in detail.

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Bangles! is a 30-page eBook giving step-by step instructions for making the bangles that are described by many as the trend of the season. No thanks to me," says Donna Grimstvedt of TimpyWorks, an educational and publishing firm in northwestern Wisconsin. I didnt even know they were popular. I was just making them because I thought they were beautiful and because I loved making them." It wasnt until a friend told her how fashionable her bangles were that she decided to write and publish a guidebook to cover all the bangle-making methods shed learned during her months of experimenting.

Although Donnas specialty for several years has been hypertufa garden art-hypertufa is a blend of Portland cement, peat moss, and other aggregates such as sand and perlite-you cant make hypertufa outside in the garage during Wisconsins winters because its just too cold. It was her acute sense of missing hypertufa in the wintertime that inspired her to invent a mixture that mimicked the appearance of hypertufa. Additional experimenting taught her how to use her mixture to give a variety of finishes to the jewelry she creates.

Embellishments such as shells, buttons, beads, marbles, wire, and fabric can be used to decorate bangles made using this recipe for bangles that includes recycled plastic bottles, craft foam, paint, and glue. No one can believe it when I tell them how I make these and how easy they are to make. The response is always, 'Youre kidding, right?"

My mom thinks the bangle that I gave her is beautiful. She said that it reminds her of Bakelite jewelry."

Now thats quite a compliment for a bangle made from recycled materials," says Donna. Ive seen what those Bakelite bangles are being sold for on eBay."

You can find more information about Bangles! at http://www.timpyworks.com.

TimpyWorks, established in 2000 and located in northwestern Wisconsin, conducts hypertufa garden art workshops throughout the spring, summer, and early autumn. On the web at http://www.timpyworks.com, TimpyWorks also publishes eBooks filled with step-by-step instructions for creating both jewelry and garden art.

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