Make Chandelier Earrings and Other Earring Designs Yourself

Make earrings yourself and you won't have to settle for what you can find, you can have the designs and colors you really want. Earrings are really easy to make, too. What you'll need is some earring posts, earring wires, fishing twine, fine wire, and an assortment of beads. Needlenose pliers or tweezers may also be needed to help you twist wires or hold beads in position while threading others.

Post earrings are the easiest to make because the earring hardware is made with a small metallic circle and you simply glue beads, charms or other novelties onto the hardware. You'll find thousands of tiny trinkets that you can attach to the post earrings which can be made in minutes.

Wire earrings take a little more time but are also very simple to make. There are so many different styles, bead combinations, and color combinations that it's simply your choice in how to arrange them. Start by cutting a piece of fishing twine about 8" long. As you make earrings you'll come to realize about how long of a piece you need to begin but 8" will allow you enough to make a short or long dangling earring.

Thread one end of the twine through the loop of the wire earring piece. Bring the ends together and slide the first bead onto the two piece of twine. If the bead hole is too small for two twine pieces to pass through use a tiny dot of glue to hold the two pieces together at the top, just below the wire hole. Now slide the first bead on, all the way up to the glue. Begin adding other beads until finished. When you've placed the last bead on the twine touch the top of it with a glue gun then slide it up to the previous bead. The tiny bit of glue will hold the bead to the twine.