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IF
ONE in your list of friendship possesses such unconventional style in fashion, and
you happened to be browsing the internet for remarkable gift item ideas, you
might be interested to know few unique ones that would garner “oh” and “ahs” of
admiration and excitement from an eccentric fashionista of a friend. Dangling
earrings, everyone? Well it’s not just any ordinary fashion accessory, but an
eco-friendly handmade pair.
While
purchasing unique dangling earrings from any fashion accessory boutique in a
mall would cost you about a hundred and fifty pesos, a handmade pair would only
be thrice less that price. Even lesser when you try out your creativity in recycled
ones. So, one of my favorite do-it-yourself (DIY) gift items I want to share with
you is the Pop Can Dangling Earrings.
After
quenching your thirst from your canned soda, save two pop cans for your DIY accessories.
You will also need small beads – with the colors of your choice – for add-on decorations,
a pair of silver-coated earring hooks, a small pack of less-than-a-centimeter
in diameter silver coated rings, eye-pins and flat end-pins for the materials.
You
will mostly find these materials from direct suppliers of sewing garments and
accessories. In Cebu , the Colon Market has
everything you need. A pack of beads and earring-hooks cost about 25 to 30
pesos and you can already make up to twenty pairs. You will also need long-nosed
flat and round end types of pliers to help you in locking the pins to the hook
and putting the beads in place. Cutter pliers will be useful to cut out the
unneeded length of pins.
A
pop can has two holes forming similar to the number “8.” In one hole, you can
connect the hook to the pop can through the small silver-coated ring. In the
other hole, you can design it with beads inserted into the pins. Use the round
end long-nosed pliers to lock the pins in place. You can create any design you
want using the pop can as the main body of the dangling earrings.
When you go eco-friendly in choosing presents, you won’t just be saving
your money and fascinating your eccentric fashionista of friends; you can also make
a little but valuable contribution in the preservation of the environment, though
it may not be that much, but at least it is a vital single step ahead of the
others.
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