Trash to Treasure miniatures

Trash to treasure involves creating miniatures out of stuff that you would normally throw away or stuff found in junk shops, jumble sales etc. I now have quite a collection of odds and ends that I intend to make into wonderful new miniatures.

• Useful items to collect are:
• Buttones
• Beads
• Bottle tops and caps
• Corks
• Plastic toys from Christmas crackers
• Cogs and mechanical bits from watches, cameras etc
• Straws
• Lolly sticks
• Washers
• Make up containers
• Chop sticks, dowel and kebab sticks
• Sweet containers such as altoid tins
• Sweet wrappers

There are many sites that offer tutorials and information on this subject, take a look at the following:
 http://minitreasures.pbworks.com/w/page/20982005/trash_minis
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976909429
http://miniatures.about.com/od/miniaturescommunity/ig/Mini-Trash-to-Treasure-Gallery/