How to Make Beautiful Peacock Feather Earrings

You can easily make your own peacock feather earrings with feathers and earring findings available at your local craft store. These simple, yet beautiful, earrings will only take about 10 minutes to make and you’ll enjoy them for years.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• 2 Peacock feathers 2 Fish hook ear wires ½-inch wide floral tape 2 1-inch long headpin Needle nose pliers Scissors

1. Make a loop in the tip of each headpin. Place the needle nose pliers just below the tip and twist until you make a closed loop.

2. 
   Headpin Attached to a Peacock Feather

   Cut two 1-inch sections of floral tape. Hold one headpin at the tip of one peacock feather with the flat end touching the feather tip and the loop extending above the feather. Wrap the tape around both to secure them together. Repeat the first two steps for the second earring. The tape should blend into the feather, so select floral tape to match to match the stem of your feather.

3. 
   Open Earring Wire

   Open the circle hook of each ear wire with needle nose pliers.

4. 
   Peacock Feather Earring

   Slide the hook attached to the feather over the open hook. Close the open hook.

Tips & Warnings

• You can also create other types of dangles to hang onto ear wires by stringing beads onto a head pin and making a loop and the end.
• Hang your feathers in your jewelry box or on a jewelry tree to store them so the feathers do not crimp.

[jull14]

on 6/9/2009 Wonderful article. I am on my way to create my own earrings, thanks for this information