1. Hardware Chic Accessories from Hardware Store Treasures

2. Go Shopping Tour your hardware store (the old- fashioned kind with bins and boxes of stuff is best.) Look for unusual items you can use as the base for your accessories. duct tape washers, nuts, and bolts plumbing parts metal fasteners, S-rings, key rings, hooks ball chain and other chains

3. inspiration to get you started on your designs

4. Hardware Cloth Bracelets wire hardware cloth, wire, and glass beads

5. Hex-Nut Necklace hex-nuts, wire, cord from Hardwear book

6. Washer Cuff & Connector Chain rubber strip, washers, wire various connectors from Hardwear book

7. Washer Necklace small washers, cord from Hardwear book

8. Large Washer Belt large washers, cord from Hardwear book

9. Link Belt (inspired by Gucci) various links, screw eyes, plastic tubing from Hardwear book

10. Key Chain Necklace various sizes of key chains from Hardwear book

11. Duct Tape Cuff duct tape or electrical tape, matching earrings from cord from Hardwear book

12. Anni Albers Artist Anni Albers designed jewelry from common items in the 1940s with the idea that beautiful objects did not need to be expensive

13. drapery rings, ribbon

14. ferrules, chamois strip

15. washers, ribbon

16. medium washers, ribbon

17. ball chain, bobbie pins

18. drain cover, paper clips, ball chain

19. corks, bobbie pins, cord

20. rubber hose washers, ribbon

21. Now go explore the hardware store!

22. Hardwear, Hannah Rogge; photographs by Marianne Rafter. Stewart, Tabori & Chang Publishers Anni Albers designs from Josef and Anni Albers Foundation; www.albersfoundation.org Hardware Cloth Bracelet from HGTV.com