Hey guys, Merry Christmas!! I know it's well late but I'm gonna a MASS postage of posts I've been meaning to put up for a while so you've got lots to look at :)
The earrings I made I did in about 15mins in a rush before I went to HPM's gig so I thought I'd would make a good post :)
All of the things I' ve used came from Hobbycraft (i specifically went to Greenford but I'm sure all these can be found in the other ones too.) The tools I used are my dad's so I have no idea where you can get those, but, Hobbycraft also do jewellery making tools.
These little bits are a few pounds each, I have no idea what those kinda hook things are called, but both of the items either side of the fish skeletons come in multipacks, like, 100s of them in a pack.
These are clippers because I couldn't find my dad's pliers so I had to improvise X_X
So with the pliers, you wanna open out the circle bit of this hook...
... And hook it on to that top hole of the fish skeleton.
Snap of the excess, you probably only need about 2 cm excess, but it can get fiddly so I suppose you can leave more excess then cut off what you don't need.
Now you can get the actual part that hooks into your ear. Put the end circle bit on to the hook you latched to the fish skeleton.
Remember that 2cm excess?.. Twist this into a figure 8 shape, this holds everything together.
Do this again for the other fish skeleton and you have your pair of earrings
I reckon the junk gold fish skeleton finishes off an outfit in an unusual way, it's almost kinda gothic but with that urban feel.
The feeling that you get when people ask you where you bought them from, then you tell em you made them is amazing :)
Hope this post was useful :)
Courtnee xx
