DIY Life

The sprouting grass, the bursting leaves, St. Patrick's Day, Earth Day, even the weeds. There are plenty of reasons to celebrate green in springtime, and making your own green beaded earrings is a fun and fashionable way to do it.

You don't even need to cut any wire for these earrings, so if you have never made jewelry before, you can make these quickly and easily.

For this simple project, you'll need about ten minutes and:

• 2 ear hooks
• 2 antiqued brass headpins, 3/4 inch
• (2) 8mm Moss Agate beads
• (4) 4mm faceted round glass beads, any shade of green you like
• 4 antiqued brass 4X3mm flower beads
• round nose pliers

Simply string the beads onto the headpins in the order shown in the picture, then put the headpin through the loop on the ear wire.

Use your round nose pliers to bend the top of the headpin into a loop, as shown in the gallery. Follow this tutorial if you've never done it before. You are done!

Go show off your new, made-by-you earrings.