Dawno's Beaded Badge Lanyards and Jewelry: Valentine's Day Idea #4 ...

by Dawno

Using ball end head pins and wrapped loops, I attached the round beads to the ends of the chain segments. I began another wrapped loop with a section of wire for the puffed coin bead and put it on the chain just off the center before I wrapped the loop. It's hard to tell in the picture, but one of the glass beads is on a slightly longer segment of chain than the other so they don't clink against each other and break. I then made another wrapped loop at the top of the puffed coin bead to attach to the ear wire. Since I didn't have any simple ear wires handy, I made them myself from the longer sized ball end headpin. (I've embedded a tutorial from Art Jewelry Magazine towards the end of the post to show how you can do this - I didn't do the hammering part, though) I didn't have enough of the round beads handy to make earrings with more than two chains, but I think having 3 or 4 chains per earring would be a great alternative. Mixing up two kinds of chain, or using chain with a fancy texture,...

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