By Andrew Waser and Michele Lanan Wood has great potential for
use as jewelry. It’s lightweight, easy to work with, abundant,
and, as a natural material, it possesses near-infinite
diversity. Wood also lends itself quite well to reuse. Gorgeous
pieces can come from the most seemingly unlikely sources: a
scrap of old hardwood flooring, a broken antique trunk, or even
just a neglected remnant from the corner of a woodworker’s shop.
Here is a simple project that takes advantage of these
properties. It requires only a small piece of wood – easy to
acquire. In addition, it incorporates another item you may have
– leftover colored pencils – that gives the finished pieces a
very distinctive look. However, the jewelry you can create using
these methods is by no means limited to this design. The general
process described here can be adapted to incorporate other types
of wood, colored resin, or even materials such as glass, stone,
and metals. Notes: Most of the materials for this project can be
purchased from your loca