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Hi I'm Jason and I'm here on behalf of expertvillage.com today. I'm making beaded necklaces out of things I've found. The charm I've chosen today is this skull...

Hi, I'm Jason. I'm filming on behalf of expertvillage.com. We're making a beaded necklace out of recycled materials. Just things we found lying around. Now, we've got...

Now I've sewed our back to our front, leaving the opening on the bottom. Before you turn it, you want to kind of cut the bulkiness out of the corners, so you just cut an angle across the...

To sew the bear in place, I've opened the tent up and pinned the flaps aside. Now you can either hand sew the bear, or you could put in onto the machine, and top stitch around it. So you want...

Okay when you're top stitching, you might want to roll up the mat a little bit like this, the parts that you're not stitching, to keep it out of the way. And then you just need to...

Now we'll pin on some interesting pockets. I found this one has a little Velcro closure, so that's good for little hands. And another fun zipper on the side, and you can hide a lot of...

These are the materials we'll be using to make our peek-a-boo play mat out of recycled jeans. You'll need plenty of recycled jeans. Look for jeans that have you know, interesting...

Now I'll show you what you can do with an old button fly. I'm going to make a lacing up portion for our play mat. And so, and you can use the buttons for just a touchy feely section....

For our last thing to put on our peekaboo play mat, I found these old jeans with kind of a pretty edge to it, and I said, "Oh, that looks like a curtain!" So, I'm going to...

Okay we're going to sew. We have the hanger in place and we're going to sew over all this hard stuff. You want to go very slowly as you go over any of the thicker parts, and pull out...