I like to wear earrings and for some reason or another most of my earrings happen to be dangly and heavy. My mom keeps telling me that one day my ear hole will split all the way down the edge. While, that has not happened, I do however have a few earrings that I don’t wear because they are simply too heavy.

I bought once such earring a few years back. It was too heavy to wear for more than a couple hours .. so guess what, it sat in my jewelry collection. And oh do I have a collection… mostly earrings.

One day, as I was either washing the dishes, or cooking, or trying to fall asleep, or even driving {My mind works overtime when I’m doing non-brain intensive jobs} I got this idea that I can fix the earring by removing some of the dangly things. {really descriptive, huh? well why don’t I just show you a picture!}

Now take a closer look. You see those dangly loops. {Yup, what the arrow is pointing too.} I started removing them one by one with a wire cutter. I have one that came with my jewelry making kit but any old wire cutter would do the trick.

I cut and I cut and I cut some more. I cut the same amount on either side of the “bell” to make it even and then try it on every once in awhile. And I cut some more … until I ended up with this! 

Let us take a look at the before and after side by side. Earrings that I can wear for an entire day and not feel the weight! Yaay for happy endings.

So, tell me have you taken something you’ve had for awhile and “fixed it up” so that you can actually use it?

- ASH