DIY | Super-easy Pimp my Earrings

I decided to experiment with making things that you could add to earrings and it worked really, really well; it's incredibly easy, very quick and so effective. Pimp your earrings in 5 minutes flat!

Ingredients: 

• Beads of your choice (this is how I got mine)
• Two headpins

Note: If you can't find headpins like this, you can always make some out of a length of stiff wire, making the end loops yourself with a pliers.

Plus: Pliers

Supplies | Scavenging DIY Materials

Beads can be hard to find cheaply, especially if you want to use a lot of them. One solution is to buy cheap bracelets and necklaces, or find them in second-hand and charity shops, and then cut them up to use the beads for other projects. The beads from this pack of bracelets from Primark would have cost much more than €5 had I bought them individually. Hurrah for Primark and cheap jewelery!

Guitar-string Bracelets

Seeing the old stings of my brother's guitar in the bin after he had restrung them seemed a shame. Rather than throwing them out, they make quite beautiful bracelets! If you aren't lucky enough to have friends family of aquaintences who play the guitar (or you find that they can't re-string them fast enough!) you can ask at music shops ; they often re-string guitars and are quite happy to give away old strings that they would otherwise throw out.