Affordable Tutorials (1) - Gold Simplicity Earrings Tutorial - What to buy for Mom - Inspiration

As Christmas is tiptoeing, I have found some new wire wrapped jewelry project. Recently I have read an article about "less is more." In that article, the author argued that sometimes we "try too hard" to make a jewelry. Sometimes, simplicity is the key to beautiful jewelry. So baring that in mind, I have found a couple of easy, cute, and simple earring style for the holiday.

Golden Path Earring ($120.00) uncommongoods

This pair of earrings is easy to DIY. They used an alloy material called Shibuichi in the back as the dark oval shape, and a flat gold strip slightly bent in the front as contrast. This item on uncommongoods is sold for $120.00. But in fact, you can totally DIY it for less than $20. One can easily change the shibuichi into a flat oxidized silver oval teardrop (similar here), and the flat gold strip can be made from simply hammering a 20 gauge gold colored base metal wire or gold filled wire. You can find gold filled wire from here. You can even buy square gold wires. They are a little more expensive than the round ones (see here).
After this, do you still want to pay $120.00 for this pair of earrings? Make it your own for someone special in your family this Christmas!

Here's the material List:
1 pair of ear wire (can be found here)
2 2-inch Gold filled wire (for the gold strip) hammer it flat
2 tear drop silver oval pendant

You will need:
Round nose pliers
Flat/Chain nose pliers
Benchblock
Hammer