Mushroom Earrings

Hello everyone! The bulk of craft fair season is over so I'm back with a little craft blog. It's been a minute, but I'm happy to be chatting with you all again!

​Here are all the supplies I used for this fun and relatively simple project: some mushroom earrings! I've been on a bit of a mushroom kick lately and was inspired to make some more mushroom things after the cork ornaments I made a few weeks ago.

The small wooden mushrooms were from Dollar Tree; I had bought them a while ago and wasn't quite sure what I would turn them into, but earrings seemed as good an idea as any! Although they are made of wood, they are extremely light so would not be too heavy as earrings. The first step was to drill a very small hole in the top of the mushrooms; I would later use this to attach the mushrooms to the earring hardware.

I then painted the mushrooms with the classic colors: red for the top, white for the stem and white dots on the red top. I also sealed the mushrooms with a coat of varnish.

I wanted a small, beaded detail to hang off of the earrings as well so I used some glass beads I had as well as flat head beading pins. These pins have one flat end that stops beads from sliding off and then an "open" end that you can slide beads onto. They are flexible enough that you can cut them and bend the "open" end into a loop for hanging.

I then used some jump rings to attach the beaded piece to the hanging earring piece. I also took another beading pin, bent one end into a loop and snipped off the head so that it was just a straight pin and attached that to the earring based with a jump ring as well. I used some strong glue with a very thin tip and filled the hole that I had previously made in the mushrooms with glue. I then pushed the straight pin into the hole and allowed the glue to dry. 

Once these were dry, they were ready to go! I packaged them up and brought them to my last craft fair. After fair season is officially over, I will probably be adding them to the Etsy shop as well.

I think these came out so cute but let me know what you guys think in the comments below!

​ - Rebecca

​P.S. Today's photo on the homepage is from Pexels user Egor Kamelev:
www.pexels.com/photo/closeup-photo-of-red-and-white-mushroom-757292/