Feather Earrings: DIY

I have a pretty rad job at a law firm as a receptionist..that sounds like it would be the opposite of fun. But it is actually more of a dream job. I do something different everyday. Some days I am a travel agent, some days a party planner, or a dog sitter or a personal assistant or a wardrobe consultant and some days we have craft hour.

My boss's wife, J, was having a themed event and the theme was "Quail". We were going to make name tags with feathers and buttons but she couldn't find any buttons she liked. J loves feathers and she had to do something with them so she had the idea to make earrings. She didn't know how we would do it, but her crafty receptionist  played for a few minutes and came up with an awesome and easy way to make the feathers and earring blanks into some pretty ear adornments.

 I am currently in a serious relationship with summery boho fashions so this was right up my alley. I love these earrings and plan to make more.


Supplies:

• Earring Blanks 
• Hot glue/super glue
• Feathers, any will do, just whatever you like
• Tape
• Coordinating thread
• Fishing line

Instructions: 

Put the feathers together how ever you want, what ever you like. 

Cut a 1inch or smaller piece of fishing line. (you use this to attach the earring blank to the feather bundle) 

Loop the fishing line and tape it to your bundle of feathers.

Wrap bundle, over the tape with your thread until it is completely covered. 

Put a dot of glue on the back of the string wrapped section and wrap the string a few more times and snip it. 

Slip the fishing line loop into the earring blank

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Here are some of the earrings I made today: