DIY Accessories

Summer is the perfect time to relax, get a week off and spend a few days with your family and children. During the year, we hardly ever find some time for ourselves. Busy and constantly captured between the everyday routines and the exhausting duties at work, we simply cannot pay attention to our own appearance. Summer vacation gives up the chance to fix this injustice. 

Every woman loves shopping. This is an unwritten rule, applying to everyone, no matter of their age, race or nationality. A fancy new dress or a beautiful pair of earrings can always cheer you up. Unfortunately, we cannot always afford going to the mall and buying colorful accessories. So, today we're offering you some really creative and easy ways to make such jewels at home. They are both unique and stylish and you can even get your children involved. You can even match the accessories you made with fair isle sweater women.

How to make a bracelet?

All you need is some tiny, little beads (which you can combine, according to their color, size or whatever else you can think of), safety pins of the same size, a long ribbon, a piece of elastic and a suitable cord. The beads are strung up on the safety pins. Then you drive the ribbon into the two ends of the safety pins. Now the only thing you need to do is to make the size of your new bracelet suitable for your hand, by properly binding its ends.

How to make a motley necklace?

Very often we find our necklace chains  neglected, at the bottom of the jewelry box. That is why we decided to show you a good reason to get them out of there and turn them into a stylish jewelry. For the purpose you will need a few sheets of colorful paper, an ordinary pencil (a rounded one), one of your metal chains and a little tube of colorless glue. Cut the sheets of paper longitudinally, on stripes with a different thickness. Then start rolling the stripes around the pencil. When you have about two centimeters of the stripe left, glue and roll the rest of the paper. Carefully press the protruding paper edges and get the pencil out of the paper pipe. Then repeat the same thing with the other stripes. When you're all done, string them up on the chain and your necklace is ready.

How to make earrings from... A plastic bottle?

If you like improvising with colors, perhaps you will be interested in this creative suggestion. All you need is a plastic bottle (if you choose a yellow one, you will get a really nice amber effect), some tiny wires (there are some wires, designed especially for homemade earrings), beads, a soldering iron and perhaps a burning candle. Cut the bottle into a lot of different (rounded) pieces. Then use the flame of the candle to burn their edges. Using the soldering iron, drive a whole in the middle of each plastic piece (be careful not to get hurt of the soldering iron, since it burns  everything as soon as it touches it). Then bend the wires in order to be suitable for earring hooks. Use the rest of the wires to string the beads and the plastic pieces on them and gather the two parts of the new earrings. It's easy, it's stylish just like the cable knit sweater women or a women s winter coats and it'll cost you neither money, nor efforts.

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Written by Jane Mires for Fashion e-Shopper's readers.

About the writer

She is a passionate freelance blogger and writer. She currently works for TenancyClean Ltd. London  but her real dream is to have a small DIY shop for gifts with only Eco friendly materials

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