For those beautiful earrings that you have lost one and think you should throw the remaining one away, don't. They are handy for several things especially the posts. For the large hoops you can use them for hanging your scarves you wear and hang them with the outfit you plan on wearing it with and place it over the hook part of hanger. For the open hoop earring, you can use the hoop like a tie tack or lapel pin and hang your necklace you plan on wearing with the outfit you plan to wear. They will not leave big holes in most clothes. The earrings can be pinned to the outfit. Also they can be used for plunging necklines for the work place, use them to close the gap and you can also use it if a button pops off to close the gap, until the button can be replaced.
As for crafts, I use posts for embellishments for the flowers, jewelry, or hats for bears or dolls. I also use bookmarks for cross-stitching for storing my earrings, while traveling or at home, no wasted time finding a matching pair.
The posts are sharp enough to use as tacks or pins for your cork message boards.
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Here is a use for single earrings or rarely worn pins. Put them on the brim of a winter hat! You can give these pieces a second life.
Use up your single earrings by attaching them with a strong wire or something to your zip ends of all your purses and zipped bags. They are attractive unusual and very convenient if you have problems with your joints like me.
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I have a lot of earrings that I don't use any more. What kind of a craft can I do, to use up the earrings and not throw them away?
By Kathleen Dennis from Springfield, MO
Don't Throw Them Away!
If you have solitary pierced earrings you particularly like, turn them into fancy button covers. Cut off the posts with wire cutters, and use strong epoxy glue to attach them to the top buttons on coats, sweaters, or blouses.
I LOVE kffrmw88's advice!
You can use stud-type earrings for pushpins - a lot prettier than the plastic pushpins. Some of the fancier earrings may have parts you can cannibalize to make new jewelry. The easiest things are rings or pendants. You can find plain ring blanks at craft stores. Just use wire cutters to cut away any posts, then use a soldering tool or really strong glue (such as E6000) to attach the rest to the ring blank.
I took mine and made some gorgeous fancy Xmas tree balls with them. Get an inexpensive ball like those that are covered with satin fibes(you may have to shop in thrift stores. Condition only matters a little as they will be totally covered with earrings. Post style work best, but shepard hooks can be clipped shorter with wire cutters. Coat the post of each one with a good tacky glue that dries clear(I'm a big fan of Aleenes) Insert where desired, close together so very little of the ball underneath shows, especially if it is faded or in bad shape(you can try painting the balls before starting too) Save a nice dangly one for the bottom of the ball and add your small eye screw with glue at the top before starting your design so that you can hide it a little with the earrings.
Our daughter-in-law did the sweetest thing. She took an earring that had lost its mate, one that was special to me, that I had for years. She purchased a chain, and had a jeweler make that earring into a pendant for the chain!
I was so pleased to be able to wear that necklace!! And it was even more special because it was a piece of jewelry that I loved.
I love the larger pierced earrings and have often used a pair or a single (when I've lost the other) as broaches, scarf clips or lapel pins.
If you have stray clip-on earrings lying around, clip one to the button placket of your shirt or even just the top and you have a little 'brooch' of sorts. Fun for kids' dress-up things! My daughter loves to put jewelry on!
