Seeking Ideas

[ladysprite]

Okay - I've got a lot of clever and creative people reading this, and a lot of crafters, and I've got a conundrum that's been stumping me, so I'm going to throw it out to the masses and see if y'all have any ideas.

I love wearing earrings, but I am occasionally absent-minded and clumsy, the end result of which is the fact that I own a lot of unpaired single earrings. I don't want to throw them away, for a lot of reasons. They're beautiful. They were gifts, and I have wonderful memories of the people who gave them to me, or times when I've worn them. I'm an incredible packrat, and it's just hard to throw anything away, even when I lost the other earring three houses ago and there's really no chance of me ever finding it again.

On the other hand, I can't wear them. While I do have two holes in my right ear, most of what I wear in the second hole are studs, if anything, and most of the singleton earrings are dangles.

So... any creative suggestions of what to do with single, unmatched earrings?

Comments

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

Add me to the necklace crew. You'll need a chain about 20" long, with links large enough to work with; depending on exactly how the earrings are put together, you may also need some small jump rings for attaching them to the chain. Remove the earwires and attach the earrings in whatever order pleases you; with a bunch of different items like this, I'd probably go for the "clustered at the center" look, possibly with more than one earring attached to each link.