Making Beaded Earrings
Making beaded earrings can be done in many styles.
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There's earrings made from only seed beads, ones with seed beads and larger beads and ones with just larger beads. Earrings can be chandelier style, hand one long drop or a short drop, a cascade or waterfall or even just a simple stud.
No matter which style you choose to make, you'll need some basic tools and, of course, beads!
If you are making seed bead earrings, you won't need pliers or a headpin - you'll really only need the seed beads, beading string, beading needle and an earring finding.
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In this demo, however I'm going to show how to make beaded earrings in a chandelier style so I'm only going to talk about what you need for those.
What You'll Need:
 Finding to hang beads from - I am using a vintage piece but you can buy new or vintage - the metal piece at the end of a vintage necklace where the strands meet sometimes make for a unique and interesting piece to use.
Head pins
Pliers
Beads - I use seed beads and swarovski crystals in this one, but you can mix and match for whatever look you want.
Earwire - if you are really ambitious, you can make your own from jewelry wire but I just used premade ones.
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Instructions:
The first step to making beaded earrings is to decide what you want them to look like. Do you want the middle piece to dangle lower? How long do you want them? What colors etc...
Then you can construct the earrings step by step as shown.
 Now that you know how you want them to look take a headpin and simply string the beads on in the order you want - adding the bottom bead first since you are working from the top of the pin.
Next Make a loop at the top of the head pin (Note that you must use a headpin that is at least 1/4" longer than the desired length in order to have enough room to make the loop - give it more room if you have less experience).
Attach the head pin to the earring finding.
Repeat for each "strand" that dangles from the earring.
The final step is to attach the ear wire. Typically the wire will have it’s own loop that you can pry open with the pliers, insert the top of the earring finding and then close. Ta-Da! You’ve made a beaded earring! Just repeat the steps above for the other earring and you have a pair!
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