Upcycled Washers

I love upcycling objects to create new art!

My inspiration for this piece was washers.

Washers come in many different sizes, and can have pretty colors to them.

I decided to create earrings from various sized washers.

These fun earrings are made from washers and butterfly beads!

The butterflies are a greenish brown color.

They have hypoallergenic fishhook earring backs.

They hang apx. 3.25 inches from the fishhook earring.

Slightly industrial, upcycled, and steampunk. Be unique!

I created the earrings by using washers, jump rings, butterfly beads, and headpins.

I took three different sized washers and connected them together using jump rings.

I then connected the top smallest washer to the earring back using two more jump rings.

I ran a headpin through the butterfly beads and made a loop, connecting them to the bottom washer.

Earrings like these are available for purchase in my Etsy shop

http://www.CreationsByKT.etsy.com

Bird Nest Brooch

There are so many pretty bird nest jewelry pieces floating around on Pinterest.

I decided to take inspiration from them.

I made four brooches for my Mother-in-law for Christmas.

She loves birds and anything dealing with Biology, she also likes brooches.

I started off each brooch by picking three beads.

I then threaded them onto 20 gauge wire.

I wrapped the wire around the beads until I got a thickness that was appealing.

I then took the wire end and threaded the pin back onto the back of the bird's nest.

I used that same end to wrap around the wire "nest" twice between each bead.

This also helped to secure the pin back.