Telephone wire crafts

Jewelry From Old Cables: while treasurehunting in the attic I found loads and loads of old and almost forgotten cables -apparantly in our wireless times there is no use for them anymore... so theres 3 possibilities: 1. Landfill 2. find a new kind of use 3. leave the pile …

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Donna Van Hooser has brought her one-of-a-kind course to Mosaic Arts Online and now you can learn her tried and true methods using everyday telephone wire to create colorful and detailed mosaics. Donna created this mosaic art technique while exploring how telephone wire could be incorporated into her traditional filati micro mosaics. After many months of experimentation, you can now learn Donna’s perfected style of creating mosaics with wire. Learn how to make a micro mosaic art project!

Does anyone else here remember making jewelry out of telephone wire? The finished bracelets, rings, or "choker" length necklaces looked similar to the picture above. We started with telephone wire, like what you see below. I remember you took one strand of wire as the base, and then picked another multi-colored wire strand. You then would neatly wrap the multi-color wire around the base. We closed the bracelets with a simple wire "hook" loop. I would actually love to find some colorful…

Another week that passed by super quickly - did you notice it? Can you believe it's already Friday? Here's what I did this week: I stuck to my morning yoga! I'm not much of an exerciser (ok, I never do), but we're going on a trip this summer & I want to look decent in a bathing suit. So I picked up a yoga dvd & have been doing 20 minute routines every morning this week. I feel so much more awake & energized when I do! I completely reorganized my desk. It looks SO good! Everything is easily…

Telephone wire rings. $1.25 ea. Min 100.

#Upcycled, #salvaged,#repurposed telephone wire,buttons,beads and bling. Made by Miss Disposed.

colourfull selection of some of the brooches made from telephone wire

Telephone Wire Rings, $6.00 Each.

egg shapes made from telephone wire

Flowers made from the insides of an old comms cable. Blogged here thiscraftinglife.blogspot.com/2010/09/re-wired-flowers.html

Don’t throw out those old cables! Turn them into something useful with these easy-to-make DIY project ideas.

Connecting or splicing two telephone wires should be avoided if at all possible. A splice that is not done right can lead to connectivity problems in your phone line. Running new telephone wire to avoid the splice is the ideal thing to do, but sometimes splicing is the only means of repairing a phone line.

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