Home-made Earrings

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Home-made Earrings  Jewelry: how to make home-made earrings

It's hard to search for the perfect earrings to go with a special outfit or necklace... So why not make them yourself!  All it takes is a half hour to create a pair and the best part? They are completly original and you can make them any color you want! You'll get hooked making them, but don't worry- they make fantasic gifts for friends and family, too.

Supplies
Tools
  • Rounded pliers
  • Clipping pliers
Materials
  • Long pins with flat heads
  • 2 earring
  • Beads of different shapes and sizes (in this example: 2 beeds with iridescent glass, two waterdop beads, 2 hoops and 2 beads that hang in the hoops).
Directions

Putting the beads on the pins

  • String the iridescent bead and the waterdrop bead on one of the pins.
  • Cut the pin with the pliers 1 cm from the top.
  • Make a loop with the end using the round pliers.
    • Bend the pin at a 90 degree angle.
    • Then bend it in the other direction to make the round loop.
    • Don' close the loop all the way.  It should resemble a hook.

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  • Take another pin, make a loop on one end and string the the hoop beed and the round bead at the end.
  • Cut the pin 1 cm from the top and make a loop at one end witht the pliers.

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Finishing the earrings

  • Connect the two pins by closing the loops completely.
  • Hook the pins onto the earrings.

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Examples

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2 BlueSurfer comment(s)
Milly
Monday, May 09, 2011
Milly :

this looks so easy and would make a great present for my friends; thanks!

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ClaireMoran
Thursday, July 22, 2010
ClaireMoran :

This is an awesome page on making your own earrings! I'm gonna teach my girls this trick

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