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Hi! This is Julie with Beadaholique and today I'm going to show you how to make
basketball wive style earrings. These are a particular style of earring which
is characterized by a big hoop
and all these fun, sparkly beads on it
and I've got these
acrylic rhinestone beads, so they're really lightweight but they're really very sparkly
and very pretty
and that's what I'm going to be using for this particular project
to make my hoop I'm actually using memory wire which is great because it's going to
help to hold it's shape, you've not going to have to form that perfect circle. It's already going to
be formed for you
and I thought I'd put on a little ball post and I just got a little
earring back as well
the tools that you're going to need is a pair of round nose pliers
chain nose pliers
and some type of memory wire or heavy-duty wire cutter
memory wire is very strong so you're not going to want to use your good flush cutters
on it. You want to use
something that's either specifically made for it or a little heavier duty
this is a easy project and we're going to put one together right here. I thought I'd use a different
color earring to show you how to do this
so I've got my memory wire and it's perfectly spiraled
find one end of it
see where it overlaps to make s complete loop
and I want to overlap
by about half an inch. I'm just going to eye ball it
snip it
so now I've got a circle
my ends are overlapping
for one end I'm going to take
your round nose pliers
grip just the tip
make a loop. Roll it back
that's what we've got so far
on the straight end now just going to load up my beads
I'm going to put on this end on this particular earring I'm going to put nine of these
beads and because they are
plastic they are very lightweight
they're not gonna be too heavy when they are on there
I've got six
put three more
take my round nose
grab the tip again. About the same spot on my pliers before.
so I have nice even loops
I'm gonna
roll it over and create another loop
Now we've got two loops
now we've got our beads on there and they're not gonna fall off
now to attach
the post
take my chain nose plier
open up one of my loops a little bit
just enough
so that I can slip the loop
of the ball
post on there
now I'm gonna bend it back
try ti bend it back into place as carefully as you can just so that
there's not a gap for your post to escape
so now for
open the other loop up as well
this is the trickiest part that's not all that hard, it's just getting another
right angle
slide
it on there as well
I've captured both of them and I'm just going to take my chain nose
bend my loop
back in place
all that's left now is putting my earring back on
it was that simple
to make a pair of basketball wive style earrings. Go to www.beadaholique.com to purchase beading supplies and to get design ideas!