Wednesday 3 September 2014

Peg Earrings

I have a friend who rocked up for an exam once with a clothes peg in her hair because she couldn't find a clip. These are a classier kind of cool.

Brace yourself. This list of materials may come as a surprise:

  • Two miniature clothes pegs (I made mine multicoloured by taking them apart and putting the halves of different pegs together)
  • Super glue 
  • Basic studs (See Vocab Tab)

Here's the method. It's worth reading for the one step that isn't obvious from the picture:

Start by gluing the peg shut. This will decrease the chance of the earring breaking if someone tries to pinch it open.

Now stick the pegs onto the studs.

Good job.

Rating:

Effort Required: 1/10

In the time it took you to read this post you could probably have made a pair. At least I haven't wasted much of your time by making it unnecessarily long. Oh, wait, now I just made it longer by saying that. I'm sorry.

Durability: 8.5/10

Fewer steps usually means stronger earrings and more boring posts.

Cool Factor: 6/10

I'm not entirely happy with these. I had wanted to make them so they look like they're actually pegged onto your ears but I couldn't come up with a good enough way to do it. Suggestions?