How to Create Your Own Fashion Earrings

Crafting your own earrings is a fun and creative hobby for anyone. It strengthens eye hand coordination while creating individual styles to give away to family as gifts or sell them for extra money. There is an ample supply of special exotic beads supplies and tools for beading your own piece of jewelry on the Internet.

All supplies should be purchased by a reputable online bead store. Cheaper pins and wires begin to snap apart when bend too many times. Look for sterling silver for head pins and ear wires. Prices are usually listed on the beading WebPages. The supplies you will need to make your own jewelry are:

Head pins: Head pins are straight pins with a small flat head. Beads are fed onto the head pins.

Ear Wires: Head Wires are where the bead hangs from. You can find bags with enough for 10 pairs of earrings on any bead supply Website.

Beads: There is are a huge supply of exotic beautiful beads from large to small of any style on the Internet. Make sure you choose beads with small holes just large enough to fit over the head pin. Beads usually range in price depending on quality and type. The more different and exotic the bead is the more money you will pay. For example: Hand blown glass beads would be more expensive.

Wire Cutter: This is a necessity. Its function is to cut the head pin to the correct length.

Pliers: Round ends and flat ends. Use whatever style you prefer. I prefer the style with the flat ends. It has grips underneath and holds the wire tighter.

First choose the beads you want for your earrings. Place beads onto the head pin. The head of the pin will hold your beads in place. Continue adding beads until the desired earring length. Repeat with second earring.

Cut wire after you have reached the desired style and length. Cut off the extra wire, leaving enough to curl around a couple of times.

Use pliers and twist the straight wire into a small circle. This works by gripping the wire at the top, curling the wire once, readjust the wire and curl it over again. Do this a few times until the wire is curled into a circle. The size depends on your taste.