Earring-A-Day 11: Button Chain Earrings

Ooh first post that didn't automatically go up at 9:30am. Slackin' off today. Why? Well between two dead mice (one computer, one my cat caught. ew) it was a little tough to get everything ready before I went to bed last night. That and I was working on bread. Expect that post later this month as the The Bread Project is a few weeks behind meat space. Anyway, onward!

Today's earrings fairly simple. Once again I reached into my bag of church rummage sale buttons, and took out a few that are the same shape but different tones. Buttons + jump ring chain =

I'm not totally in love with these. Originally I'd wanted to hang the buttons vertically, but I thought that might be too similar to last week's Sailor Jerry Earrings, so I went horizontal. The buttons are nice and woody looking, which is a nice contrast to the shiny shiny jump rings, but I'm not completely sold on it. Ah well, maybe I'll revisit this idea later, as there are still sooo many buttons left in that bag.

Earring-A-Day 7: Button Studs

Sunday came on a little to fast, and I feel like I copped out a little on these studs. I never make them so I was at a loss for what to do. Then yesterday D and I went out shopping and two things happened:

1) The greeter at the store said (re: my matchbooks) "Your earrings are pretty! I mean, unique. They're cool." Haha.

2) I noticed the studs they had there were fairly boring.

So I don't feel too bad about today's earrings: buttons I picked out from a random bag of buttons I'd gotten at a church rummage sale.

These were as easy enough as attaching the buttons to the backings with super glue. Sadly the glue I had was a little dried- kind of gummy- so it was hard to get a thin layer. Hence the glue gunk in one of the button holes. But they're nice.

I have a few more creative ideas for studs assuming I can find the materials. For now I'll just leave you with a shot of the backs.